USHC Unit 7 Section 3 - Wilson HS

What was the term used to identify the concern that if one nation falls to communism, its neighbors will also fall to communism?

• Detente

• Perestroika

• Proliferation

• Domino Theory

What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

• This resolution established the position that the United States would not become involved in Vietnam

• This resolution was used by the government to send troops into Vietnam

• This resolution was passed establish limitations in the arms race with the Soviet Union

• This resolution was passed to remove the United States from the Vietnam War

What battle of the Vietnam War demonstrated to the American people that war was far from ending and not going as well as the United States had claimed?

• Tet Offensive

• Easter Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Operation Starlite

What is the term used to describe the occurrence in which the public sees evidence of elected officials, military leaders, and others providing false information?

• Yellow Journalism

• Muckraking

• Credibility Gap

• Prior Restraint

On which college campus in the United States did antiwar protests become violent and deadly, four people were killed, thus highlighting the unpopularity of the Vietnam War?

• Kent State

• Texas A&M

• Florida State

• Stanford

What was the name of President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and transferring those responsibilities to the South Vietnamese troops?

• Detente

• Perstroika

• Glasnost

• Vietnamization

What were the leaked documents that were printed in the New York Times that revealed that the American government and the military were being untruthful to the American people about the Vietnam War?

• Federalist Papers

• Pentagon Papers

• Plame Papers

• Climategate

The Vietnam War proved to be a success in American containment policy.

• True

• False

What is the name given to President Lyndon Johnson's program of policies designed to end poverty, reduce crime, abolish inequality, and improve the environment?

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Fair Deal

• Contract With America

Supreme Court decisions under which Chief Justice supported the civil rights of the citizens by safeguarding their constitutional rights against the power of the government?

• John Jay

• John Marshall

• Earl Warren

• Warren Buger