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American Military History - Vietnam War
Mr. Bolchoz, American Military History - Final Exam - Vietnam
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03/21/2012

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Vietnam spent more than a millennium under the imperial rule of
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China
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Which of the following was not a province of colonial French Indochina?
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Macau
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All of the following countries ruled Vietnam as an imperial or colonial power at some point except
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Britain
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Which of the following was the site of a major French defeat in 1954?
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Dien Bien Phu
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The French established their colonial capital of Vietnam at
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Saigon
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Who was the former emperor of Vietnam whom the French reinstalled as a figurehead in 1949?
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Bao Dai
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Who was the U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam until 1963?
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Which international agreement split North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1954?
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The Geneva Accords
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The dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam lay along the
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17th Parallel
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What did the domino theory state?
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If one country fell to Communism, others nearby would soon follow
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On which religious group did the Diem regime crack down severely?
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Buddhists
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In which body of water were two U.S. destroyers allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in August 1964?
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The Gulf of Tonkin
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Ho Chi Minh was associated with
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Communism, Nationalism
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The South Vietnamese “first lady” who was infamous for controversial comments was called
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Madame Nhu
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Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia prompted Congress to pass the
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War Powers Resolution
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In 1963, a Buddhist monk protesting Diem’s regime killed himself in public by
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Setting himself on fire
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Which of the following men was not assassinated?
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The policy of Vietnamization called for
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Reducing the number of American troops in South Vietnam and turning control of the war over to the South Vietnamese
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What did COINTELPRO do?
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Harassed and arrested antiwar protesters in the United States
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The Viet Cong raid at Pleiku gave Johnson justification to begin
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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What did the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
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Gave the president more freedom to conduct military operations in Vietnam
Gave the president almost unlimited funding to wage war
Effectively declared war on North Vietnam
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Why did many South Vietnamese resent U.S. military participation in the Vietnam War?
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They hated the United States’ puppet governments in Saigon
The United States inflicted serious damage to the landscape and on the population
They viewed the war as more of a civil war than an international conflict
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After the 1968 Tet Offensive, General Westmoreland
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Asked Congress for more U.S. troops
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Which of the following did not contribute to U.S. paranoia about Communism in the late 1940s?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Viet Cong proved a formidable enemy for all of the following reasons except
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Its firepower was superior to U.S. firepower
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Which of the following played an unforeseen, important role in the Vietnam War?
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The American media
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All of the following were associated with the U.S. antiwar movement except
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Barry M. Goldwater
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Why did Nixon initiate warmer relations with China in 1972?
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To gain leverage in Vietnam
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The Nixon Doctrine stipulated that
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The United States would no longer send troops abroad to fight Communism
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What is napalm?
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A flammable gasoline-based gel
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All of the following statements about the Pentagon Papers are true except
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They surfaced after being leaked to a Viet Cong spy
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Which U.S. official tried to negotiate an end to the war through secret talks with Viet Cong official Le Duc Tho?
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Henry A. Kissinger
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With which president is the policy of Vietnamization associated?
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Nixon
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With which president is the policy of Americanization associated?
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Johnson
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The failed U.S. initiative to relocate Vietnamese peasants to specific villages was called the
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“Strategic hamlet” program
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The My Lai Massacre of 1968 turned American public opinion against
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The U.S. military
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The Viet Cong differed from the NVA in that
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The NVA were professional soldiers, whereas the Viet Cong were civilian guerrillas
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Hubert Humphrey lost the presidential election of 1968 partly because of his association with
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The Chicago Riot
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Johnson and the military’s request for more troops in 1968 coupled with their assurances that the United States was winning the war in Vietnam helped form the
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“Credibility gap”
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Which of the following did not cause a scandal in the Nixon administration?
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Nixon’s visit to China
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On which president’s watch did the largest increases in U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam occur?
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Johnson
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Nixon used the term “silent majority” to refer to Americans who supported
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U.S. action in Vietnam
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Which Constitutional amendment lowered the U.S. voting age from twenty-one to eighteen?
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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment
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All of the following eroded the American public’s support for the war except
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The Nixon Doctrine
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What was the COSVN?
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A Viet Cong command center that may or may not have existed
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Which famous actress made a notorious 1972 visit to North Vietnam?
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Jane Fonda
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Sporadic incidents in which U.S. soldiers killed their own superior officers in order not to be sent on combat missions were referred to as
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“Fragging”
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Saigon finally fell to North Vietnamese forces in
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1975
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What was Vietnam officially called beginning in 1976?
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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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Who succeeded Ho Chi Minh as head of the Vietnamese Communist Party upon Ho’s death?
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Le Duan
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