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Multiple-Choice Questions

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This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
The National Liberation Front, or ___________, were guerrilla fighters indigenous to South Vietnam.

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Question 2.
Under Operation Ranch Hand, American planes used defoliants such as _____________ to clear forests and expose the enemy.

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Question 3.
Lt. William Calley was convicted of murder in conjunction with the US massacre of 400 Vietnamese civilians at the village of:

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Question 4.
Any remaining hopes of an American victory were crushed by the startling ______________ that began on January 30, 1968.

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Question 5.
The antiwar senator from Minnesota who nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary was:


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Question 6.
By the mid-60s, many younger, more militant African Americans looked to leaders like the Nation of Islam's ______________ for inspiration.

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Question 7.
In the summer of 1962, a group of student activists met at Port Huron, Michigan to organize the ___________, an organization that eventually led many antiwar protests.

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Question 8.
The Arkansas senator who chaired televised hearings on the war in Vietnam was:

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Question 9.
In its _________ decision in 1973, the Supreme Court established a woman's constitutional right to abortion.

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Question 10.
The Mexican American labor leader who struggled to build a farm workers union was:

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