VIETNAM WAR (SLO PRE-TEST) - Spring 2024

1. The involvement of the US in Vietnam was in part due to this policy, which was aimed at stopping the spread of communism

• A. quarantine
• B containment
• C. Lightning War
• D. Tet Offensive

2. What August 1964 event led to a rapid expansion of U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

• The French lost control of Vietnam to the Vietcong
• A group of South Vietnamese army officers killed Ngo Dinh Diem
• The Gulf of Tonkin Incident in which North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships,
• Laos and Cambodia fell to Ho Chi Minh’s fascist rule

3. Which of the following best describes the domino theory?

• If atomic weapons were used once to end a war, they would be used to end all wars.
• If the United States attacked other communist countries it could become an empire and take over ruling them
• If one nation became Communist, nearby countries would also fall to communism
• If the Soviets took over one Asian nation, they would take over the entire continent.

4. What emotions does President Johnson want Americans to have after hearing this speech?

• To make them angry and want to stay out of war
• To make them fearful
• To cause them to be sympathetic to the South Vietnamese
• None of the above

5. Which of the following is Muhammad Ali’s strongest reason for defying the draft?

• The time he would serve in the military would cause him to lose millions due to missed boxing matches.
• He agrees with communism and supports Ho Chi Minh’s government.
• He believes that he should not have to fight a war in another country while millions of African Americans are still fighting for civil rights.
• He believes that the war is too far away to be important to him or other Americans.

6. Which of the following were military tactics & weapons that were utilized during the Vietnam War?

• napalm
• deforestation chemicals
• guerilla warfare
• all of these tactics were used

7. What is the main purpose of this song?

• To warn others that the US government was willing to shoot protesters like they did at Kent State University.
• To protest the massacre of the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
• To share their disgust of anti-war protesters.
• That African American Soldiers were suffering more in the Vietnam War.

8. The major North Vietnamese and Vietcong attack on over 100 South Vietnamese towns and cities in January and February of 1968

• A. Bay of Pigs Invasion
• C. Korean War
• B. Tet Offensive
• D. Ho Chi Minh Offensive

9. Nixon’s plan for the gradual handover of control in Vietnam from American troops to South Vietnamese troops

• A. Iron curtain
• B. McCarthyism
• C. Vietnamization
• D. domino theory

10. The Vietnam War ended when

• North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon in 1975.
• Communist dictators took over Laos and Cambodia in 1977.
• North Vietnam returned all American prisoners of war in 1979.
• the United States and North Vietnam signed the Hanoi Accords in 1973.