Vietnam War Assessment

1. To kick off America's action in Vietnam following the passage of the War Powers Act, President Johnson began a bombing campaign in Vietnam known as ____________________.

• Operation Rolling Thunder
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

2. Over time, the Vietnam War became a ________________ that the United States could not easily escape.

• quagmire
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Operation Rolling Thunder

3. One of the groups that rose in opposition to the "militarization" of America as shown by the Vietnam War was __________________________________.

• Students for a Democratic Society
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

4. President Nixon's policy toward Vietnam was __________________________, which was a code word for shifting responsibility from American troops to Vietnamese troops.

• Vietnamization
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

5. The __________________, or South Vietnamese communist forces, made it difficult for American troops to tell who their allies were during the war.

• Vietcong
• Vietminh
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire
• Operation Rolling Thunder

6. ________________________ was a chemical agent that lost America support both among the North Vietnamese that they were fighting against, and many of their allies in the South, for whom agriculture was the source of their livelihoods.

• Agent Orange
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

7. After North Vietnamese patrol boats were reported to have fired upon American ships for a second time, Congress passed the _____________________________, which allowed President Johnson to increase American participation in the Vietnam War.

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• quagmire
• Operation Rolling Thunder

8. In 1971, the New York Times published a secret government history of the Vietnam War that increased the sense that many Americans had that they were being lied to about the war. This history was known as the ______________________________________________.

• Pentagon Papers
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

9. Debates about the military draft led to increased opposition to the war in the United States, especially among young poor and minority citizens who could not easily get a _______________________ of their military service by enrolling in college.

• deferment
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire

10. After the war, Congress passed the _______________ to limit the powers of the president in committing American forces to an open-ended war.

• War Powers Act
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• quagmire