Chapter 29
11. Why did American military officials begin calculating their progress in body counts and kill ratios?
A delegation of American soldiers had asked for concrete measures that they could readily understand
21. What were the Pentagon Papers, which became public in 1971?
A secret government study critical of Us policy in Vietnam
8. The purpose of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was to
Authorize the president to take all necessary measurres to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression
22. What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War in Vietnam itself?
B. North Vietnam occupied Saigon, and the country unified
7. The National Liberation Front in Vietnam was composed of
B. South Vietnamese under the direction of the North Vietnamese army
2. Which of the following describes the Bay Of Pigs invasion?
B. The invasion was an unmitigated disaster.
18. From 1969 to 1972, Nixon and Kissinger pursued a three-pronged approach to Vietnam
B. The replacement of US forces with intensified bombing
23. Which statement describes most veterans who returned home to the United States after the Vietnam War?
B. They felt betrayed by the government for not allowing them to win the war, and by their countrymen for their lack of support for the war
19. How did Americans respond to President Nixon's decision to extend the Vietnam War to Cambodia
B. They protested, demonstrated and rioted
9. What led Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964?
B. Unconfirmed information that North Vietnames gunboats had fired on two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
6. How did the Cuban missile crisis affect the leadership of Nikita Krushchev?
B. it continued to his fall from power two years later.
13. What was the impact of the American movement to stop the Vietnam War?
C. It brought the war to the center of media attention and severely limited the Johnson administration's options
14. What was the impact of the American movement to stop the Vietnam War?
C. It brought the war to the center of media attention and severly limited the Johnson administration's options.
16. What made the Tet Offensive an important turning point for President Johnson?
C. It underscored the credibility gap between official statements and the war's actual progress
12. Who constituted about 80 percent of American troops in Vietnam?
C. Poor and working class Americans
24. What 1982 event finally gave Vietnam veterans a measure of public respect for their service?
C. The vietnam veterans memorial was unveiled in Washington DC
4. The Peace Corps was launched by the Kennedy adminstration in 1961 to
C. allow young Americans to work directly with the people in third world countries
1. What was the objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961?
D. To overthrow Cuban nationalists Fidel Castro's socialist government
17. The US policy of dEtente with the Soviet Union netailed the US
D. beginning new discussions with the soviet union on arms control and trade
20. Lieutenant William Calley dealt a severe blow to the Nixon administration's Vietnam policy by
D. massacring more than 400 Vietnamese civilians in the hamlet of My Lai
5.Which of the following describes the 13 day cuban missile crisis of 1962?
It brought the world's two superpowers perilously close to nuclear war
15. What happened during the Tet Offensive of January 1968?
The vietcong and North Vietnamese forces attacked key cities and every major American base in South Vietnam
10. What did the initiation of Operation Rolling Thunder in February 1965 indicate?
The war in vietnam had become america's war
3. Why did East Germany erect a wall between East and West Berlin in 1961?
To stop the mass exodus of East Germans to West Berlin
