The Vietnam War: Presidents, Strategies, and Controversies

1. Beginning in the early 1950s and continuing into the early 1960s, the communist government of _________ Vietnam attempted to install and force through a communist government in ____________ Vietnam. • North, South • South, North • East, West • West, East

3. Who was President during the height of the US military in Vietnam? • Dwight D. Eisenhower • John F. Kennedy • Richard M. Nixon • Lyndon B. Johnson

5. Who was President when the United States started the American military build up in Vietnam? • Lyndon B. Johnson • Richard M. Nixon • John F. Kennedy • Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. Which President pledged to bring the war to an honorable end? • Dwight D. Eisenhower • John F. Kennedy • Lyndon B. Johnson • Richard M. Nixon

9. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was a response to concerns over • congressional abuse of authority in deployment of US military forces • under use of  military forces • Supreme Court interference in the deployment of US military forces • an imbalance of powers in deployment of US military forces

10. The War Powers Act requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops to military action and forbids troops from remaining for more than 90 days without a declaration of war.

11. What Viet Cong fighting style employed “hit and run” and only fighting when the odds were on your side? • guerilla warfare • nuclear warfare • trench warfare • massive warfare

13. Execution of a Viet Cong guerilla

14. What was Operation Rolling Thunder? • Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck important military bases in South Vietnam. • Uprooting camps and forced people to move to refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire. • Three years of bombing raids on roads, bases, and railways • Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men, women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived among them.

15. Operation Rolling Thunder

16. The New York Times published what article revealing secret activities by the US government in the Vietnam conflict? • The Pentagon Papers • Kent State Killings • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • The Pumpkin Papers

18. What was the effect of “Vietnamization”? • It kept communism from South Vietnam. • It failed and South Vietnam surrendered to communism. • It had no effect. • It made the 17th parallel the dividing line between communist North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam.

20. What does Nixon’s policy of “Vietnamization” mean? • Slowly handing South Vietnam back over to the control of the South Vietnamese military. • Increasing the number of US military in North Vietnam • Slowly handing North Vietnam back over to the control of the North Vietnamese military. • Increasing the number of US military in South Vietnam

22. What Cold War policy is reflected by the United States involvement in the Vietnam War? • ouch theory • Marshall Plan • massive retaliation • containment

24. What site saw many anti-war protests during Vietnam? • National monuments • college campuses • recruiting offices • factories

27. Protestors vs. Supporters

28. How did the communist North Vietnamese supply the communist guerillas in South Vietnam? • Ho Chi Minh Trail • bombing raids to steal from South Vietnamese peasants • tank trains • airlift supplies

30. Which is NOT a problem of the US soldiers in Vietnam? • Hot, humid weather • Well hidden enemy that knows the terrain • Well trained, experienced soldiers • Frustration that makes many turn to drugs and alcohol

32. What country gave up Vietnam as a colony? • Germany • France • USSR • Great Britain

34. What was the Tet Offensive? • Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men, women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived among them. • Uprooting camps and forced people to move to refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire. • Three years of bombing raids on roads, bases,  and railways • Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck important military bases in South Vietnam.

36. What was the My Lai Massacre? • Uprooting camps and forced people to move to refugee camps surrounded by barbed wire. • Three years of bombing raids on roads, bases,  and railways • Atrocity of small Vietnam village killing 340 men, women, and children claiming Viet Cong lived among them. • Supposed stalemate in fighting on the Vietnamese New Year but instead the Viet Cong struck important military bases in South Vietnam.

41. What was a powerful ally for anti-war protestors in the US? • Radio • Television • Propaganda • movies

42. The domino theory was a foreign policy that proposed which of the following arguments? • Foreign policy in Asia was a game. • If one Asian country were to become a democracy, then other nearby nations would also become democracies. • If a communist revolution were to succeed in one Asian country, then other nearby nations would also turn to communism. • If the United States colonized one Asian country, then the Asian trade market would open dramatically.

44. What part of Vietnam did the United States aid? • North • West • South • East