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US History Chap 19 Vietnam Conflict
US History Chap 19 Vietnam Conflict
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What was the 26th Amendment?
Women could join the military
Women's suffrage
18 year olds right to vote
Outlawed poll taxes
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Nixon's Vietnamization called for...
Surrender of North Vietnam
Surrender of South Vietnam
Massive Invasion of North Vietnam
Withdrawal of U.S. troops
3
The goal of Agent Orange was to...
Cut Vietcong supply lines
Destroy the Vietcong's ability to hide in the jungles
Infiltrate the Vietcong
Sabotage Vietcong equipment
4
In the 60's young people known as hippies began the
Bilingualism
counterculture movement
the beatnik movement
Civil Rights Movement
5
On which idea is the 26th Amendment based on
a person who is old enough to fight is old enough to vote
Women should be allowed to serve in the armed forces
The elimination of poll tax
president can only serve 2 terms
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The picture represents Eisenhower's belief in what?
Checkers theory
Domino theory
Falling Country theory
Butterfly effect
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What impact did images like these have on the American public?
American support for the war increased
Public raised more money for the war effort
Public protest of the war increased
Encouraged young men to enlist
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With the Gulf Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect
committed to a limited war only
handed its war powers to the president
declared war on North Vietnam
declared war on South Vietnam
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America didn't like imperialism & didn't think France should control Vietnam,
but they did not want Vietnam to become catholic
but they did not want Vietnam to become capitalist
but they did not want Vietnam to become part of Indochina
but they did not want Vietnam to become communist
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The war lingered for American families whose relatives were classified as MIA or...
Los Angeles Dodgers
Draft Dodgers
Prisoners of War
Defectors
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Students in the Free Speech Movement demonstrated by...
Organizing music festivals
Taking hostages
Occupying Administration Buildings
Rioting on campus
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Students for Democratic Society was comprised mainly of
African American students
The "baby boom" generation
Conservatives
Latino students
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The Pentagon Papers revealed that
American soldiers had massacred Vietnamese at My Lai
government had not been honest w/the public about Vietnam
The US had surrendered to the Vietcong
Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal
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Which is true about the Tet Offensive?
Led to public opinion to turn against the war
many lives were lost
It was a military victory for the US
all of the above
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What publicized massacre by American troops led to protests against the Vietnam War?
Tet
Dunkirk
Gulf of Tonkin
My Lai
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North Vietnam received military weapons and other support from
USSR & Italy
USSR & China
Iraq & North Korea
USA and Great Britain
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What was the Haight Ashbury District famous for?
Where Woodstock took place
It was where Robert Kennedy was assassinated
It was where Jimi Hendrix died
It was a hippie destination
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In the 60's young people known as hippies began which movement?
Counterculture
Beat
Bilingual
Civil Rights
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This started on the Vietnames New Year and was a simultaneous attack on U.S. bases in S.Vietnam
Fall of Saigon
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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#1 reason President LBJ refused to order a full scale invasion of North Vietnam was his fear
that it would result in more loss of American lives
that china would enter the war
that it would horrify the US public, ruining him politically
that the financial cost would destroy the US economy.
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Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia, another country, angered congress, resulting in
a vote censure
passage of the 27th amendment
a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
impeachment trials of Nixon
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Nixon's Vietnamization called for
a massive invasion of North Vietnam
the US to declare war on all communist countries
democratic elections in Vietnam
S. Vietnam to assume more of the fight as US troops withdrew
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who appeared to be on his way to winning the democratic nomination for pres until he was shot
MLK
Abraham Lincoln
JFK
Bobby Kennedy
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How did the draft system contribute to the large # of African Americans dying in Vietnam
more white students earned deferment by attending college
The draft only selected minorities to serve
it is a myth designed to increase the civil rights movement
More African Americans volunteered
25
Who was the commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam?
Lt. Calley
Douglas MacArthur
General Westmoreland
Ernest Medina
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The Port Huron Statement expressed the view of the
Untied Farm Workers
United Auto Workers
Students for Democratic Society
La Raza Unida
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After N. Vietnam captured Saigon, Vietnam was united under...
United Nations control
Communist Rule
Totalitarian Dictatorship
Nationalist Rule
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail ran through which two countries?
Cambodia and Thailand
Cambodia and Laos
Laos and Thailand
Laos and Indonesia
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What two events convinced Truman to help France in Vietnam?
Germany beaking the peace treaty and JFK assassination
The civil rights uprising in the US and the watts riot
fall of China to communism & the outbreak of the Korean War
USSR's creation of the atomic bomb
