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Chapter 30: From Camelot to Watergate

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	Probably the boldest and most reckless confrontation of the Cold War came in 1963 when the Soviets tried to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.    True  False

	The Economic Opportunity Act supported by President Johnson's administration abandoned the conventional idea of individual responsibility and embraced the welfare state.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	The 1968 Tet offensive in South Vietnam was a clear victory for the North.    True  False

	In 1968, Eugene McCarthy was assassinated just after he won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire.    True  False

	When he took office in 1969, the major economic problem Nixon faced was unemployment.    True  False

	In 1971, President Nixon tried to control inflation by imposing price and wage controls.    True  False

	President Nixon's "southern strategy" was to shift the responsibility of fighting the Vietnam War from American troops to South Vietnamese troops.    True  False

	When he became president, Richard Nixon assumed that his first and most important task was to balance the national budget.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	When peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam stalled in 1972, President Nixon ordered an invasion of Vietcong sanctuaries in Cambodia.    True  False

	The Watergate scandal began when burglars from President Nixon's campaign committee broke into the Democratic National Headquarters in June 1972.    True  False

	Under the terms of the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the North Vietnamese agreed to sever their ties to the Soviet Union and China.    True  False

	In July 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that executive privilege allowed President Nixon to withhold the tapes subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor.    True  False

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