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The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz

12 Who said: "I want to say this to you whites in the audience, and whites everywhere, that if you think there were riots after Martin Luther King was killed, this nation won't survive if anything happens to Adam Clayton Powell"?

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13 What did President Kennedy describe as "a struggle of Cuban patriots against a Cuban dictator"?

14 Who said: "We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked"?

15 What ransom did the U.S. pay Cuba for the prisoners taken at the Bay of Pigs?

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16 Who said: "If we have to start over again, with another Adam and Eve. I want them to be Americans and not Russians, and I want them on this continent, and not in Europe"?

17 William Henry Nelson defected to Cuba in 1963, explaining that, "America never did anything for me." In 1968, he drifted back to the U.S. on an inner tube. Why?

18 What comment by a Soviet cosmonaut was censored from replays on Soviet television during the 1969 docking of Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5?

19 Who were the three astronauts killed when their capsule burned up in 1967?

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20 Who was the pilot of the U-2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960?

21 How many shots did North Vietnamese vessels fire at U.S. ships in the incident President Johnson cited to justify the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

22 What presidential candidate suggested "defoliation of the forests by low-yield atomic weapons" as a possible Vietnam strategy?

23 What Vietnam policy did Gen. Curtis LeMay advocate?

24 How long did it take negotiators to agree on the shape of a table for the Paris peace talks?

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