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Problem 1: Kennedy defeated Nixon in 1960 by

a. Just 12 electoral votes.

b. A popular vote margin of fewer than 120,000.

c. Winning the three largest states, New York, California, and Pennsylvania.

d. Sweeping the western states, which supported his call for a "New Frontier."

Problem 2: Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in the Western Defense Command because

a. California's press and congressional delegation were pushing for it.

b. Japanese Americans were caught signaling to enemy planes.

c. Cases of sabotage started to abound.

d. Japanese farmers refused to sell to the U.S. military.

Problem 3: About the Soviet Union, George Kennan wrote that

a. Stalin's military was so weak following the war that it did not pose any threat to the United States.

b. President Truman needed to bluff the Soviets into believing the United States would launch a nuclear strike.

c. The United States needed to build hydrogen weapons.

d. There can be no peaceful coexistence between capitalism and socialism.