Q1. Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion by the Allies in World War II. Which is the most important event in American history of the ones listed below?
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30-44
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1920 women's right to vote
11%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
11%
1929 stock market crash
5%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
5%
1941 Pearl Harbor attack
27%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
27%
1944 D-Day landings
12%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
12%
1963 Kennedy assassination
6%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
6%
1964 Civil Rights Act
18%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
18%
1969 moon landings
7%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
7%
1975 fall of Saigon
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2001 terrorist attacks
10%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
10%
2008 stock market crash
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Q2. Do you believe the US was justified in dropping a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945?
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Hiroshima yes, Nagasaki no
11%
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0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
11%
Nagasaki yes, Hiroshima no
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Yes to both
55%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
55%
No to both
21%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
21%
Don't know
11%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
11%
Q3. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander at the time of D-Day, spoke about the dangers of the military-industrial complex in his presidential farewell address. Do you agree with Eisenhower that such a complex poses danger to America?
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Yes, agree wholeheartedly
50%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
50%
Yes, agree somewhat
25%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
25%
No, disagree somewhat
6%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
6%
No, disgree wholeheartedly
4%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
4%
Am not familiar with the notion of a military-industrial complex
13%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
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13%
Wikipedia has an audio recording of Eisenhower's farewell address here
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