Can You Guys Please Participate in this Survey, Regarding US History.

In My Humble Opinion
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Before reading the thread:

  1. Yes
  2. It used an air cav.
  3. I think you’re fishing for “Atomic Bomb” here, but I’m going with “Signing the Treaty of Versailles”
  4. 9
  5. Those shoelaces…what was he thinking? Seriously, though, it’s bad form to ask opinion questions like “most embarrassing” unless you’re referencing a quote that I don’t know.
  6. 2
  7. 60s? 70s?
  8. Um…small? Cheap? Laissez faire?
  9. Russia, NOT the U.S.S.R., which is not a country. It’s a federation.
  10. A set of bills aimed at ending the Depression
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First, I cannot DO yes/no answers to complex questions, and several of these are a bit more involved than yes/no/multiple choice:

  1. Do You Believe impeachment was a proper way to deal with Nixon in Watergate?

Yes. Another “proper” way might have been incarceration, but impeachment was definately “a proper way”.

  1. The Vietnam War was the first time that what happened to the US Army?

Not sure there is a correct answer to this, and there are many possible answers, as some have pointed out. But it could be argued that it was the first time they found themselves fighting a war which a majority of Americans didn’t support and which, some argue, they were not allowed to “win” by their government. I do think the availability of media coverage had a hand in this shift in public sentiment; people saw the results of war and were, quite naturally, repulsed.

  1. What did President Truman allow that ended World War II?

He approved the bombing of Japan with nuclear weapons. But that was, in the opinion of many, including myself, more about rushing to demonstrate the newly developed firepower of the U.S. than ending a war that was, for all intents and purposes, already over.

  1. How Many Justices serve in the US Supreme Court?
  1. What was John F. Kennedy’s most embarrassing failure as a US President?

Getting assasinated. Seriously. Bay of Pigs? Please. That was one of his finer moments…his “own” people went behind his back, launching that invasion, and tried to set him up, to force him into sending in backup. He refused to be manipulated into doing any such thing, given the volitile situation in the region. He did NOT orchestrate the Bay of Pigs…was NOT his failure. He failed to fully reign in the CIA, Mafia, Military Industrial Complex, et al, however, though he tried, and they conspired to kill him.

  1. How many Senators Serve each State?
  1. “Sex, Drugs & Rock N’ Roll” is a slogan that belongs to which era?

I suspect this is a slogan (not to mention song title) of the 70’s, not the 60’s, as many assume.

  1. Ronald Reagan was a big believer in ________ government. Fill in the blank.

“limited”, “small”. (Yeah, right. :rolleyes:)

  1. Which country was the United States main “opponent” in the Cold War?

USSR. (yes, not a “country”, but is this meant to be a trick question? If not, the USSR is the correct answer…Russia was just one of the nations/states included in the Federation which was the “opponent”.

  1. What was the “New Deal”?

A government bail-out neccessitated by the gross excesses and crimes of the deregulated “roaring 20’s”. (JUst another bit of history repeating)

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  1. Impeachment was the only way to be sure. (aside from Nuking Him From Orbit)

  2. Vietnam was the first time that ‘fragging’ became relatively common. (Drug abuse [all wars], racial tension [civil war, WWI, WWII, Korea} and loosing the war {1812/ Korea}had been done before.)

  3. He authorized dropping atomic bombs on civilian populations. (The correct choice IMHO)

  4. Eight, the other one is a slacker.

  5. The Bay of Pigs disaster; that, and fucking around on his wife in public.

  6. None, they are both in it for themselves.

  7. All of them; years ago they called the music “Jazz” and “The Waltz”.

  8. “Secret, corrupt, Imperial” and then add “that supported terrorists and was accountable to no one.” after the word “government”

  9. The Soviet Union, followed by China, followed by, the anti imperialists.

  10. A good idea that we should try again, now.