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wrbasek0

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President Nixon's policy of increased heavy bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972
 
  A) caused the People's Republic of China to send a large army to North Vietnam to fight the United States.
  B) destroyed all chance of a negotiated peace because Le Duc Tho walked out of the Paris peace talks in protest.
  C) caused the North Vietnamese to release their supplies of nerve gas and anthrax.
  D) broke the deadlock in the peace talks and got the North Vietnamese to agree to terms.
  E) brought Nixon close to defeat in his bid for reelection that year.

Question 2

Which of the following was not part of President Richard Nixon's strategy in Southeast Asia?
 
  A) escalated American bombing of North Vietnam.
  B) ordered massive increases in American ground forces to invade North Vietnam.
  C) replaced American troops with South Vietnamese forces.
  D) opened secret direct negotiations with North Vietnam's foreign minister, Le Duc Tho.
  E) widened the war by invading Cambodia.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B



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