1 .		Probably the boldest and most reckless confrontation of the Cold War came in 1963 when the Soviets tried to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		The Economic Opportunity Act supported by President Johnson's administration abandoned the conventional idea of individual responsibility and embraced the welfare state. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		When President Johnson sent U.S. combat troops to Vietnam in 1964, he asked Congress for a declaration of war, but by a narrow margin, Congress defeated a formal declaration of war. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		Most "doves" who opposed the war in Vietnam argued that the conflict there was basically a civil war between Vietnamese. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		The 1968 Tet offensive in South Vietnam was a military victory for the United States and South Vietnam but a psychological victory for the Vietcong and North Vietnam. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		In 1968, Eugene McCarthy was assassinated just after he won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		When he took office in 1969, the major economic problem facing President Nixon was large-scale unemployment. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		In 1971, President Nixon tried to control inflation by imposing price and wage controls. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		President Nixon's "southern strategy" was to shift the responsibility of fighting the Vietnam War from American troops to South Vietnamese troops. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		When he became president, Richard Nixon assumed that his first and most important task was to balance the national budget. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		President Nixon's plan for ending the American commitment in the Vietnam War was to halt the bombing of North Vietnam while increasing the pressure on the Vietcong with an intensified ground war. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		When peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam stalled in 1972, President Nixon ordered an invasion of Vietcong sanctuaries in Cambodia. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		The Watergate scandal began when burglars from President Nixon's campaign committee broke into the Democratic National Headquarters in June 1972. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		Under the terms of the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the North Vietnamese agreed to severe their ties to the Soviet Union and China. [Hint]  True  False
15 .		In July 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that executive privilege allowed President Nixon to withhold the tapes subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor. [Hint]  True  False