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Number 1. Chose to withdraw from the Presidential Election in 1968 and not seek the Democratic nomination for President

Correct Answer: Lyndon Johnson

Number 2. Riots rocked the nation after his assassination in April 1968
 
James Earl Ray
Man accused of assassinating Dr. King
 
Robert Kennedy
He was assassinated just after giving a victory speech for winning the California Democratic Primary for President in June 1968
 
Eugene McCarthy
He was the antiwar candidate in the Democratic Presidential primary race in 1968

Correct Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Number 3. Johnson’s Vice President and winner of the Democratic nomination for President in 1968

Correct Answer: Hubert Humphrey

Number 4. Turned into chaos when 10,000 antiwar protestors marched against police in Chicago

Correct Answer: Democratic Convention in 1968

Number 5. Former Democratic Governor of Alabama who ran as a third-party candidate in 1968

Correct Answer: George Wallace

Number 6. President during the final phase of the Vietnam War; won the Election of 1968

Correct Answer: Richard Nixon

Number 7. War policy implanted by President Nixon; involved an expanded bombing campaign into Cambodia while reducing the level of American ground troops

Correct Answer: Vietnaminzation

Number 8. U.S. forces bombed these neutral nations in an attempt to stop traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Correct Answer: Cambodia and Laos

Number 9. Communist movement in Cambodia elevated to power and subsequently initiated a massive genocide that eventually killed one million citizens

Correct Answer: Khmer Rouge

Number 10. Helped to negotiate a cease-fire and troop withdrawal from Vietnam

Correct Answer: Henry Kissinger

Number 11. Formal negotiations with North Vietnam that started in May 1968

Correct Answer: Paris Peace Talks

Number 12. Year cease-fire was declared in Vietnam ending U.S. involvement in the region

Correct Answer: 1973

Number 13. In 1975 this city fell to the Communist while the U.S. evacuated the embassy

Correct Answer: Saigon

Number 14. Approximate number of Americans killed during the Vietnam Conflict

Correct Answer: 58,000

Number 15. Opened in 1982 to recognize the courage of American soldiers who died during the war and to help heal the wounds the war had caused

Correct Answer: Vietnam Memorial