Author Question: The first foreign policy crisis Kennedy faced was a botched CIA-backed invasion of: A) Guatemala. ... (Read 39 times)

imowrer · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

When Khrushchev pledged to withdraw Soviet missiles from Cuba, Kennedy secretly agreed to remove American missiles from:

A) Turkey.
B) West Germany.
C) Florida.
D) nuclear submarines.

Question 2

Like Eisenhower before him, Kennedy saw the situation in Vietnam:

A) without any preconceptions.
B) through a Cold War perspective.
C) from the perspective of the best interests of the Vietnamese people.
D) in economic rather than ideological terms.

Question 3

To respond to the fears that the U.S. had fallen behind the Soviets after Sputnik, in 1961 Kennedy pledged that, by the end of the decade, the U.S. would:

A) build a supersonic passenger plane.
B) put a man on the moon.
C) produce most of its electricity from nuclear power.
D) graduate more science Ph.Ds than any other nation.

Question 4

The first foreign policy crisis Kennedy faced was a botched CIA-backed invasion of:

A) Guatemala.
B) Cuba.
C) Lebanon.
D) Syria.