Vietnam

The Vietnam War was televised.

• False
• True

The Pentagon Papers revealed that

• many more Americans had died in Vietnam than had been reported.

• American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons.

• American soldiers had massacred Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.

• the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam.

In 1970 what college protested the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and resulted in the deaths of 4 college students?

• UC Berkley

• UCLA

• University of Wisconsin

• Kent State

Which side ended up winning the war?

• United States

• South Vietnam

• North Vietnam

• North Korea

What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?

• The Geneva Accords
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• The Tet Offensive
• Gulf of Tonkin

In Vietnam the fighters used a irregular warfare tactic that made it difficult for our soldiers to be successful...it was called?

• Vietnamese Warfare tactics
• Cheetah Warfare
• Hidden Warfare
• Guerrilla warfare

The United States experience in the Vietnam War supports the idea that the outcome of a war

• is determined mainly by technological superiority

• can be strongly affected by public opinion

• is dependent on using the greatest number of soldiers

• is assured to countries dedicated to democratic ideals

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress

• allowed Vietnamese refugees to enter the US for asylum

• authorized President Johnson to take any measure needed to repel attacks on U. S. forces.

• called for both U. S. and North Vietnamese forces to withdraw from South Vietnam.

• condemned U. S. aggression against the people of Vietnam.

The village of My Lai was the site of:

• he largest battle of the Tet Offensive.

• a U. S. massacre of Vietnamese civilians.

• a North Vietnamese harbor mined by the U. S

• a Marine barracks bombed by the Vietcong.

What was the United States' policy towards communism during the early years of the Cold War?

• Containment
• Extermination
• Isolationsim
• Elimination