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21. Leaked by whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, these documents revealed to the American public that essentially everything they had been told about the Vietnam War was a lie, including the alleged Vietnamese aggression used to justify giving the president war-making powers, allegations about Ho Chi Minh working for Soviet Russia and claims by military leadership that the US was winning COINTELPRO b. Pentagon Papers c. Vault 7 d The Phoenix Program a. a. 22. The following helps to explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: A Japanese desire to capture the oil-rich Dutch East Indies without the possibility of American interference, after the US refused to sell Japan oil. b. A Japanese desire to launch an invasion of the United States without interference from the US's Pacific Fleet The US Pacific Fleet had been secretly assisting Britain and Australia in the Pacific despite official neutrality. d. A Japanese desire to intimidate Americans in the context of US industrialists selling weapons and supplies to China. C. 23. By the time that the US, Britain and Canada launched the largest amphibious assault in history upon Nazi-occupied France with D-Day, the Soviet Russians had repelled a series of assaults by the greatest part of the Nazi war machine, turned the tide of the war at this battle, and was liberating death camps and battling what remained of Barbarossa back to Berlin. a. Battle of Leningrad b. Battle of Kursk Battle of Moscow d Battle of Stalingrad c. 24. Though unsuccessful at the Supreme Court level, Hernandez v. Texas argued that Mexican Americans are treated as a race apart even as they are classified as white. a True b. False a. 25. All the following were characteristics of the Black Power Movement, EXCEPT: A rejection of becoming integrated as unequal people and reconciled to an American mainstream that normalized poverty, exploitation, and imperialist war. b. Armed direct action against racism and white supremacy Black community uplift and empowerment d. Pan-Africanism and ant-colonialism e. Pride in being of African descent. c. 26. After World War II, the United States did what no nation does unless it is an empire or aspiring empire: It maintained and expanded its war machine during a time of peace. The outcomes include/d all the following, EXCEPT:
a. C. Continued war-time production increased jobs in war-time industries and grew the American tax-base, ensuring that robust government spending on "public goods” and social uplift programs would continue and expand for decades to come. b. Continued war-time production fed American military expansion around the world, including military operations and eventually about 750 military bases far from US shores. Continued war-time production beget a permanent war economy, requiring an American public that believes-rightly or wrongly, in perpetual threats and enemies to militarize against. d. Continued war-time production beget a permanent war economy even as neoliberalism off-shored jobs in other sectors, leading to a national economic dependence on industrial, technological, scientific, and surveillance jobs which could not exist without a belief in serious national security threats. Continued war-time production required selling and/or using the weaponry produced and, thereby, generating a demand for more production, lest war production and associated jobs cease. e. 27. Even as the media and public authorities obsessed over black men in leather jackets with guns, the Black Panthers became numerically dominated by women and devoted most of its energy to community service, such as Free Breakfast for School Children, literacy programs, and free health clinics: a. True b. False a. 28. All the following are true about the original Rainbow Coalition, EXCEPT: It brought poor and working-class people of all races together on behalf of mutual uplift and cooperation in solving shared problems, including poverty, police brutality, affordable housing, healthcare, and the Vietnam War. b. It was organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign c. It included ex-gangsters of Puerto Rican-descent called the Young Lords. d. It included Confederate flag waving poor whites living in Hillbilly Harlem, on Chicago's west side. It's organizer brokered a truce between the major street gangs of Chicago. e.