True or False Chapter 28 Self-Quiz 1

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. France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam agreed on the creation of a permanent North and South Vietnam in Geneva in 1954.

. Toward the end of his life, Kennedy believed that Vietnam was less important to the United States than improving relations with the Soviet Union.

. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution after bitter debate and partisan bickering.

. The Vietnam War strengthened relations with traditional US allies.

. In March 1968 in the village of My Lai, Company C of the American division encountered numerous enemy fighters dressed up as women and children.

. In September 1968, Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey offered a total-bombing campaign on North Vietnam as an acceptable strategy for peace.

. After the violence at Kent State in 1970, student strikes shut down hundreds of universities and colleges.

. When Americans departed from South Vietnam in 1975, they left all their South Vietnamese allies and workers behind.

. When Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968, he endorsed the Great Society's goals of eliminating poverty and racial discrimination.

. The televised proceedings of the Senate Watergate Committee fascinated and disgusted the American public.

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