PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Flexible Response
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Hot Line
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Limited Test Ban
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None of these are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -Flexible Response, also called Flexible Deterrent Options (FDO), U.S. defense strategy in which a wide range of diplomatic, political, economic, and military options are used to deter an enemy attack.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kennedy implemented the “flexible response” defense strategy, one that relied on multiple options for responding to the Soviet Union, discouraged massive retaliation, and encouraged mutual deterrence.
Detailed explanation-3: -After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this “quarantine, ” as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.
Detailed explanation-4: -The existing strategy of flexible response adopted officially by NATO in 1967 was a compromise between American demands for a full conventional defense-in effect, a no-first-use policy–and European unwillingness not only to meet the cost but to accept the possibility of a prolonged period of conventional war.