Chapter 29

Quiz for Document 29-6: Don Emmert, A Navy A-7 Corsair Jet is Pulled Down Broadway (1991)

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Question 1

The branch of the U.S. military shown on conspicuous display in Don Emmert’s photograph of New York City in 1991 is theA. Air Force.
B. Army.
C. Coast Guard.
D. Navy.

Question 2

Emmert’s photograph of the 1991 parade in New York City suggests that many Americans viewed the Persian Gulf War asA. a heroic conflict that rid the world of Saddam Hussein once and for all.
B. another mobilization of American troops to fight a senseless war on foreign soil.
C. proof that the United States was still the best defender of freedom in the world.
D. the victory that would finally bring the long and bloody Middle East conflict to an end.

Question 3

America’s decisive victory in the Gulf War contrasted with the Vietnam-era military losses could have been popularly portrayed as a victory ofA. conservative values over liberalism.
B. statist policies over federalism.
C. militarism over pacifism.
D. unilateralism over internationalism.