When he became president in 1961, John F. Kennedy did NOT believe that
A) the communist government in North Vietnam was a puppet regime of the Soviet Union and Red China.
B) Vietnam should be a proving ground of the containment doctrine.
C) the United States should strive for a negotiated compromise in Vietnam.
D) if Vietnam fell to Communism, so too would all of Southeast Asia.
C
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A) Each side regarded the other with distrust. B) The conflict lasted for decades. C) The two nations never fought each other directly. D) A nuclear arms race fueled citizens' fears. E) The United States pursued a policy of containment.
To people in medieval Europe, the most important role of the Church was
a. opening Germanic minds to new ideas. b. saving people from damnation. c. assuming some of the functions formerly performed by the Roman state. d. taming warrior habits. e. encouraging critical independent thinking.
Most individual prospectors who discovered veins of precious metal
a. mined their claims by themselves. b. sold their claims to mining syndicates. c. mined their claims with a few friends. d. were denied their claims due to government fraud.
The population growth in Japan slowed after 1700 because of the practice of
A) abortion. B) contraception. C) infanticide. D) late marriage. E) All these answers are correct.