THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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President Kennedy was assassinated while driving through the streets
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The Vietnam War started with America joining the war against the Vietcong
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President Johnson was shot but survived the near assassination
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president’s neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy.
Detailed explanation-2: -In November of 1963, to seek support for New Frontier policies and with an eye on the 1964 elections, President John F. Kennedy set out on what was planned as a two-day, five-city tour of Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
Detailed explanation-4: -November 21, 1963 (Thursday) At 10:50 a.m., President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy departed the White House on the Marine One helicopter, then flew to San Antonio, Texas on Air Force One to begin a three-day speaking and fundraising tour.
Detailed explanation-5: -October 22, 1962: ·JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba. October 28, 1962: ·Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba. June 1963: ·JFK calls civil rights struggle a “moral crisis” for America. August 5, 1963: ·U.S. and Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty.