1. Launched by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army on January 30, 1968, the ___ Offensive was arguably the largest campaign of the Vietnam War.

2. The ___ of Baffin Island, Canada play games with their children that seem somewhat odd to outsiders, but they are intended to make children aware that greed and envy are dangerous.

3. The Freedom Riders boarded buses in Washington D.C. with no security. They had trained to take violence, but weren't expecting it. The Freedom Riders made it to ___ without problems. Martin Luther King, Jr. met them, but declined to board the bus.

4. From Casper Weinberger's comment about the former Soviet Union, the U.S. military sometimes refers to peace as 'permanent ___.' War is referred to as 'violence processing.'

5. By training, she is a physicist but for most of her adult life she has been working to protect the land and the small-scale farmers of India. She is a vocal and articulate advocate for the poor and the weak. Her name is ____.

6. Because of strong resistance from the U.S. military establishment, John F. Kennedy worked in secret to end nuclear testing in the atmosphere, water, on land, and in outer space and to negotiate a non-aggression pact. In August, 1963, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Nikita Khrushchev signed the treaty. It was the first ___ agreement of the nuclear age. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in September, 1963.

7. The U.S. had and used nuclear weapons in 1945. We believed that other countries would be unlikely to develop the technology for 25+ years. However, in 1949, ___ detonated a nuclear weapon. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has been unable to keep additional countries from acquiring nuclear weapons.

8. Countries' educational systems perpetuate the war system. For example, in teaching ___, children are led to believe that their country has always acted nobly and that we must sometimes fight in order to protect our way of life. Who did you learn was noble - Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, or George McClellan? I bet it wasn't George McClellan.

9. The ___, named after a shock absorber in helicopter landing gear, was a coffeehouse in Killeen, Texas. From 1968 until 1972, this coffeehouse was one of Texas' anti-war headquarters, where, among other activities, boycotts were organized and an underground newspaper was published.

10. One of the world's great monotheistic faiths was a/an ___ from the start. The word means that the religious leader is also the political leader. This religion is Islam.

11. Initially, the Freedom Riders hoped to arrive in New Orleans on May 17, 1961. The intention was to celebrate the anniversary of ___, a Supreme Court ruling that declared separate schools for whites and blacks unconstitutional.

12. It was ___ (354-430 AD) who made this absurd statement: 'For the true worshippers of God even wars are peaceful, not waged out of greed or cruelty, but from the zeal for peace, to restrain evil or to assist the good.'

13. Living in the Himalayas, smiles seem to be the constant expression of the ___. Some of the people are Buddhist and some are Muslim. All seem to have a strong sense of self-respect, but are not prideful. They understand and value their connection to the natural environment.

14. Christianity began to abandon its commitment to peace when it became the official religion of ___. This about-face was rationalized through the development of the Christian doctrine of Just War.

15. The original Christian churches emphasized life, not death. In fact, the first depictions of the ___ of Christ did not appear for 1,000 years.

16. It was Pope Urban II who in 1095 proposed achieving peace and unity in Europe by turning its military forces against the Muslims. Thus began the era of the ___.

17. As journalist Peter Schroeder commented, '___ can make us think. They can change the world. And sometimes, they are all we have to help us maintain our resolve.'

18. Kremlin war hawks in the U.S.S.R. viewed ___'s plans for radically reducing the Soviet military, including converting missile plants to peaceful purposes as heretical. As a result, less than a year after John F. Kennedy was killed, this Soviet leader was removed from power.

19. An estimated 500,000 U.S. soldiers ___ during the Vietnam War.

20. The administration of Richard Nixon announced the policy of ___. This policy was intended to move ground fighting to the South Vietnamese forces, while U.S. combat troops were steadily pulled out of the country.

21. Shifferd suggests that we put up with the insanity of war because our cultures provide us with no ___. This is an important point to ponder.

22. In 1944, the Nazis marched into Hungary and into Elie Wiesel's community of 15,000. The Jews were confined to two ___ and readied for deportation to the concentration camps.

23. St. Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians, ended with this statement: 'So faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the great of these is love.' By love, the early Christians mean ___, defined not as romantic love, but as selfless love manifesting itself in acts of kindness.

24. A peace agreement was reached in 2003 and the UN Peacekeepers came in. A transitional government was established. Charles Taylor (who has now been tried by the International Criminal Court) fled to Nigeria. In January, 2006, Liberia became the first country in Africa to elect a woman as president. Her name is __.

25. __ thought that life was 'at its healthiest and its best' on the battlefield.