Kennedy's Campaign Included Rhetoric About "Closing the Missile Gap" with the Soviet

question 41

Multiple Choice

Kennedy's campaign included rhetoric about "closing the missile gap" with the Soviet Union,

• A)and he fulfilled his promise to increase military spending even thought there was in fact no missile gap.
• B)and he fulfilled his promise to increase military spending in an effort to close that gap.
• C)but he did very little once in office to strengthen the U.S.militarily.
• D)and once in office he proposed an increase in defense spending,even though he was actually soft on communism.

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