Identify and describe the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution as the piece of legislation in 1964 that allowed President Johnson and subsequent presidents to send U.S. troops and other forms of support to aid the South Vietnamese government in fighting communist insurgents and the North Vietnamese Army. Answers could also note that the resolution was passed by Congress by a unanimous vote in the House and with only one dissenting vote in the Senate. Answers should explain that the resolution is significant because of the carte blanche power Congress gave to U.S. presidents for military intervention in Vietnam based on the containment doctrine and fear during the Cold War.
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The Zaibatsu, which were outlawed during the Allied Occupation,
A. constituted the upper levels of the government's economic bureaucracy. B. reflected the consumer preferences of organized interest groups. C. organized labor unions into a neo-corporate relationship with business. D. were the holding companies of wartime conglomerates.
Which one of the following is a government corporation?
a. Department of Health and Human Services b. Small Business Administration c. Internal Revenue Service d. Federal Communications Commission e. Amtrak
The interpretation of world politics that perceives world leaders as the people who change the course of history is known as the
a. rational choice model. b. history-making individuals model. c. visionary model. d. leaders of the free world model.
Which was the LAST of these countries to give women suffrage?
a) Australia b) New Zealand c) Finland d) France