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Which of the following was not a province of colonial French Indochina? |
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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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Which of the following was the site of a major French defeat in 1954? |
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The French established their colonial capital of Vietnam at |
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Who was the former emperor of Vietnam whom the French reinstalled as a figurehead in 1949? |
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Who was the U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam until 1963? |
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Which international agreement split North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1954? |
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The dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam lay along the |
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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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In which body of water were two U.S. destroyers allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in August 1964? |
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Ho Chi Minh was associated with |
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The South Vietnamese “first lady” who was infamous for controversial comments was called |
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Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia prompted Congress to pass the |
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In 1963, a Buddhist monk protesting Diem’s regime killed himself in public by |
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Which of the following men was not assassinated? |
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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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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 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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All of the following were associated with the U.S. antiwar movement except |
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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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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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With which president is the policy of Vietnamization associated? |
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With which president is the policy of Americanization associated? |
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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 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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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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Which of the following did not cause a scandal in the Nixon administration? |
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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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Nixon used the term “silent majority” to refer to Americans who supported |
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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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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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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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Saigon finally fell to North Vietnamese forces in |
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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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