Match the Term with the Definition

question 1

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the definition.
-Program launched by President Kennedy in 1961 through which young American volunteers helped with education, health, and other projects in developing countries around the world. More than 60,000 volunteers had served by the mid-1970s.

• A)Agent Orange
• B)Apollo program
• C)Bay of Pigs
• D)Berlin Wall
• E)Cuban missile crisis
• F)détente
• G)Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• H)Helsinki accords
• I)Peace Corps
• J)Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
• K)Pentagon Papers
• L)Six-Day War
• M)Tet Offensive

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Definitions:

Maturity Value

The total amount payable to an investor at the end of a fixed-term investment, including the principal and the interest.

Strip Bond

A fixed-income security that is created by separating the principal and interest payments of a longer-term bond, selling them as individual zero-coupon bonds.

Yield Rate

Yield rate represents the earnings generated and realized on an investment over a particular period, expressed as a percentage.

Compounded Semi-annually

Pertains to the process of adding interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit on a twice-yearly basis, allowing the interest to also earn interest at these intervals.