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Chapter 30: From Camelot to Watergate

Multiple Choice Quiz #2

Multiple Choice Quiz #2
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 7 questions.

	The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution led to American involvement in   Eastern Europe Central America Southeast Asia Latin America the Middle East

	Each of the following lost his job due to Nixon-era scandals EXCEPT   John D. Ehrlichman Jeb Stuart Magruder John Sirica Spiro T. Agnew John W. Dean III

	The Kent State demonstrations were staged to protest   racial discrimination Chinese intervention in the Vietnam War the draft lottery the Tet Offensive the military incursion into Cambodia

	Which of these statements regarding the Tet offensive is FALSE?   It was essentially a series of raids. It resulted in a sweeping communist military victory. For a time the communists successfully occupied part of Saigon. It coincided with the Lunar New Year. It discredited the American military because of its psychological impact in the United States.

	Nixon's resignation resulted when   Vice President Ford asked him to "for the good of the nation" his aides revealed Nixon's complicity in Watergate the House voted overwhelmingly to impeach him he lost the support of enough senators needed to avoid conviction in Watergate-related matters the Supreme Court ordered him to step down due to obstruction of justice

	The Saturday Night Massacre led to the firing of   Jeb Stuart Magruder H. R. Haldeman Robert Bork Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski

	The official version of the Kennedy assassination concluded that   Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist sympathizer with ties to Fidel Castro, acted alone in planning and executing the crime Lee Harvey Oswald was "possibly acting on an order from Moscow" the real story of the assassination must be withheld because of national security the assassination was arranged by South Vietnamese agents angry about the murder of President Diem there was a conspiracy to set up a military regime to replace Kennedy

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