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The participants in this week’s antidraft demonstration . . . are . . . students or young men . . . who are working within a coalition . . . which calls itself the Stop the Draft Week Committee. . . .

—Douglas Robinson, New York Times, December 6, 1967

The demonstration described in this article was most likely prompted by —

• renewed diplomatic relations with communist China

• escalated deployment of military forces to Vietnam

• the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

• the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Senator Joseph McCarthy is best known for his involvement in —

• the war effort of the 1940s

• the Red Scare of the 1950s

• the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s

• the political scandals of the 1970s

The primary reason given by U.S. leaders to justify military involvement in Vietnam was that it would —

• promote reconstruction after World War II

• maintain the policy of détente

• fulfill prior United Nations obligations

• keep communism from spreading throughout the region

This is a cross-sectional diagram of a major operation ordered by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. The flight pattern illustrated in the diagram was designed to allow an airplane to land every three minutes. Why was this operation undertaken?

• To enable a rapid withdrawal of troops from a war-torn city

• To deploy substantial invasion forces

• To provide supplies to a blockaded city

• To rescue thousands of stranded political refugees

You, Mr. President, are not declaring a quarantine, but rather are setting forth an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force.

—Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, letter to President John F. Kennedy, October 24, 1962

Which U.S. action is Khrushchev challenging in this excerpt?

• Preventing Soviet advisers from meeting with revolutionaries in South America

• Establishing a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba

• Enforcing a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam

• Conducting air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin

Which of these best explains why worldwide reactions to U.S. involvement in Vietnam grew increasingly hostile during the late 1960s and early 1970s?

• The United States was viewed as appeasing a brutal dictator.

• The United States demanded the unconditional surrender of Ho Chi Minh.

• The United States was viewed as an aggressor invading an underdeveloped nation.

• The United States ignored a United Nations Security Council resolution to cease hostilities.

What was the primary reason for U.S. involvement in East Asia during the early 1950s?

• North Korean attempts to unify the peninsula challenged the U.S. policy of containment.

• Communities in Korea needed humanitarian aid due to a famine.

• International groups needed help investigating North Korean officials charged with corruption.

• Democratic reformers sought help from the U.S. military to overthrow dictatorial regimes in Korea.

How did press coverage of events during the Vietnam War affect the United States?

• Film footage from the front lines increased congressional support for the war.

• Reporting on military setbacks contributed to public disillusionment with the war.

• Increased U.S. media presence overseas resulted in overwhelming international support for U.S. intervention.

• Live presidential press conferences led to a decline in partisan politics in Congress

The 1943 Hollywood movie Song of Russia was produced with the encouragement of the Office of War Information (OWI). At the time the movie was made, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies in the fight against Nazi Germany. The movie tells the story of an American conductor who falls in love with a Russian pianist just before World War II. Together they spend time in an idealized version of the Soviet Union. When the Nazis invade, they join Soviet villagers in the resistance.

Which group later investigated the political ideology and actions of many people associated with this film?

• The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

• The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services

• The House Un-American Activities Committee

• The Motion Picture Association of America

As a result of the Berlin Airlift, the United States was able to —

• bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict

• transport Polish refugees to safety

• prevent the Nazi Party from reorganizing

• intimidate Soviet leaders by demonstrating superior military power