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The 1968 Tet offensive

A) was a major political defeat for President Lyndon Johnson.
B) was a military victory, in terms of the physical battles, for the United States.
C) permanently depleted the ranks of the NLF.
D) both was a major political defeat for President Lyndon Johnson, and was a substantial military victory for the United States.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was hotly debated in Congress before its narrow approval.

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B) False

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In 1965 Martin Luther King Jr.organized a major demonstration in ________ to press the demand for the right of blacks to register to vote.

When the Warren Commission issued its findings on the assassination of President Kennedy,most Americans did not agree with its conclusions.

In the 1960 presidential election,Richard Nixon lost the popular vote by a wide margin.

As the presidential campaign of 1960 got under way,Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination almost uncontested.

The 1965 civil rights march in Selma,Alabama,involved all of the following EXCEPT the

Robert Kennedy's assassin had apparently been angered by Kennedy's

Before the end of his presidency,Lyndon Johnson had to accept a tax increase and a reduction in his Great Society programs because of the war in Vietnam.

The Vienna summit meeting between Kennedy and Khrushchev took place shortly after the Bay of Pigs disaster.

The election of 1968 saw Richard Nixon narrowly defeat ________.

In the mid-1960s,the battle against school desegregation had moved beyond the initial assault on de jure segregation to an attack on de facto segregation.

In 1965,Malcolm X

Lyndon Johnson came into the presidency with little prior experience in foreign affairs.

Both Medicare and Medicaid were enacted during the Kennedy administration.

Within the later Johnson administration,the most powerful voice for scaling down the war in Vietnam was that of ________.

Regarding foreign policy,was Lyndon Johnson more in line with Franklin Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson,or Theodore Roosevelt? Explain your choice.

John Kennedy was elected president despite public concern over his religious identity as a(n)_________.

The National Liberation Front was

Discuss the evolution of the civil rights movement.Did the federal government lead or follow in the movement? What forces most often initiated change? What divides could be found within the movement? Why did they exist?