Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Leader
of North Vietnam a. | Mao
Zedong | c. | General Jeip | b. | Chou | d. | Ho Chi Minh | | | | |
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Communist group led by Ho Chi Minh a. | Vietcong | c. | Communist Little League | b. | Vietminh | d. | Commenterm | | | | |
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Eisenhower’s explanation for what would happen if the U.S. did not stand up
against communism. One nation would fall then others would fall one after the other.
a. | domino theory
| c. | Theory of diminishing
returns | b. | NATO | d. | Vietnamization | | | | |
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Major
French outpost captured by the Vietminh. Last battle before the French were driven out of
Vietnam. a. | Little Big
Horn | c. | Saigon | b. | Dien Bien Phu
| d. | Haiphong | | | | |
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Peace agreement
that split Vietnam in two a. | Versailles Treaty | c. | Geneva Accords | b. | Treaty of the 18th
parallel | d. | Paris Peace Treaty | | | | |
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Leader of South
Vietnam he and his family were assassination. Generals took over in South Vietnam after their
death a. | Ngo Dinh Diem | c. | Cahng Ki Shek | b. | Ho Chi Minh | d. | Mao | | | | |
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Communist rebel
group in South Vietnam a. | Vietwan | c. | Viet Legion | b. | Vietcong | d. | Vietsam | | | | |
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Network of paths
running between North and South Vietnam a. | Viet Cong Trail | c. | Vietnam 805 | b. | Cambodia
Trail | d. | Ho Chi Minh Trail | | | | |
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Passed by
congress, it gave President Johnson the power to fight in Vietnam a. | War Powers
Act | c. | Tonkin Gulf Resolution | b. | Vietnam
Resolution | d. | Desert Storm
Resolution | | | | |
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This person was
Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy. When Johnson took over from Kennedy he kept the Kennedy
foreign relations team. He remained Secretary of Defense under Johnson and was responsible for the
Vietnam war strategy a. | Bobby Kennedy | c. | Walt Rostow | b. | Robert McNamara | d. | Henry Kissinger | | | | |
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Another hold over
from the Kennedy administration the person was Secretary of State under Johnson and
Kennedy a. | Dean Rusk
| c. | Robert McNamara | b. | J. Edgar
Hoover | d. | Walt Rostow | | | | |
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Commander of U.S.
troops in Vietnam a. | Henry
Kissinger | c. | Wesley Clark | b. | Curtis Lemay | d. | William Westmoreland | | | | |
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Gasoline-based
explosive used extensively in Vietnam a. | black powder | c. | napalm | b. | co2 | d. | TNT | | | | |
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Chemical that
destroyed jungle foliage so Viet Cong would have no place to hide. a. | Napalm | c. | Agent Blue | b. | DDT | d. | Agent Orange | | | | |
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Tactic in which
U.S. troops destroyed Vietnamese villages because the Vietcong was using them as hiding
places a. | Vietnamization | c. | defoliation | b. | scorched earth policy | d. | search-and-destroy mission | | | | |
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The difference
between the government says and the truth. Often applied to the Johnson administration by the
anti-war activists during the Vietnam era a. | misery index | c. | credibility gap | b. | conspiracy
gap | d. | truth index | | | | |
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Name given to the
anti-war, movement of the 1960’s a. | New Right | c. | Beatnicks | b. | New Left | d. | Liberals | | | | |
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Prominent group of
the New Left responsible for much of the anti-war activity on college campuses. a. | Communist Party USA
(CPUSA) | c. | Youg Republicans | b. | Young Americans for Freedom
YAF | d. | Students for a Democratic Society
SDS | | | | |
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New Left group
that attacked business and government - Originated in UC Berkley campus a. | American Association
Manufactures | c. | Students for Democratic Society
SDS | b. | Free Speech Movement
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Freedom | | | | |
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Those Americans
who called for America to withdraw from Vietnam a. | doves | c. | eagles | b. | hawks | d. | seals | | | | |
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Those Americans
who supported the war effort a. | doves | c. | hawks | b. | donkey’s | d. | elephants | | | | |
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attacks during
1968 Tet holiday that led many in America to believe that the U.S. could not win the war in
Vietnam a. | Yom Kippur
war | c. | Tet Retreat | b. | 6 day war | d. | Tet Offensive | | | | |
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Lyndon Johnson
adviser who became his secretary of defense after Robert McNamara quit a. | Clark Clifford | c. | Maxwell Taylor | b. | George Ball | d. | Wm. Westmorland | | | | |
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Democratic
candidate for president in 1968. He decided to run after it looked like President Johnson could be
beaten. He was John Kennedy’s brother and a senator from New York. a. | Teddy Kennedy | c. | John Kennedy Jr | b. | Robert Kennedy | d. | William Kennedy | | | | |
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Democratic
presidential candidate who ran on antiwar platform. He came close to beating President Johnson in the
New Hampsire primary and opened the way for others to get in th race.. a. | Clark
Clifford | c. | Eugene McCarthy | b. | Hubert
Humphry | d. | Robert Kennedy | | | | |
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1968 Democratic
nominee for president. He was President Johnson’s vice president and became the party favorite
after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. a. | Spiro Agnew | c. | Eugene McCarthy | b. | Hubert Humphrey | d. | William Westmorland | | | | |
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Third party
candidate in 1968 presidential election He was a segregationist who ran as the American Independent
Party candidate. He was shot and paralysed during the election. a. | George Wallace | c. | Robert Byrd | b. | Hubert
Humphrey | d. | Orville Faubus | | | | |
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President
Nixon’s plan for ending America’s involvement in the war by turning it over to the
Vietnamese army. a. | The Vietnam
Master Plan | c. | The Vietnimh plan | b. | Vietnamization | d. | The Vietcong plan | | | | |
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Those mainstream
Americans who supported Nixon’s policies. They did not demonstrate or make much political noise
but they voted in most elections. a. | the mass majority | c. | great unwashed masses | b. | the quiet
Americans | d. | silent majority | | | | |
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Government
documents, stolen by Daniel Elsberg, that showed the government had no real plan for leaving
Vietnam. Anti-war groups used them as proof that the Johnson administration was lying tothe
public. a. | The White House
Briefs | c. | Pentagon Papers | b. | The Warren
Report | d. | White House Tapes | | | | |
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Nixon adviser who
helped negotiate an end to the war a. | Henry Kissinger | c. | Robert McNamara | b. | Maxwell
Taylor | d. | George Wallace | | | | |
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Communist group
that took control of Cambodia after the end of the Vietnam war. For some it proved the domino
theory. a. | Cambodian
Vietcong | c. | Cambocong | b. | Khmer Rouge | d. | Comminterm | | | | |
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Law that forbids
the president from mobilizing troops without Congressional approval a. | Anti-war Act | c. | Anti-Vietnam Act | b. | Congressional Authority
Act | d. | War Powers Act Act | | | | |
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