Chapter 30 test

Question 1

President Eisenhower supported the French in Vietnam because

Answer 1

He feared communism

Question 2

At the 1954 Geneva Conference

Answer 2

The representatives agreed to temporarily divide Vietnam

Question 3

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 3

First president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam

Question 4

Lyndon Johnson

Answer 4

President who orders the selective service to carry out the draft

Question 5

Defoliant

Answer 5

Chemicals used to kill vegetation

Question 6

Search and destroy missions

Answer 6

Conducted by U.S. forces to flush Vietcong from hiding places

Question 7

The process of relocating the inhabitants of and destroying south Vietnamese villages were called

Answer 7

Pacification

Question 8

Senator William Fulbright’s televised hearings on Vietnam strengthened

Answer 8

The anti war movement

Question 9

Prominent beliefs held by many doves including all of the following

Answer 9

1. All war was wrong
2. Vietnam was not important to U.S. national interests
3. U.S. involvement in Vietnam was against the wishes of most Vietnamese

Question 10

Robert McNamara

Answer 10

Secretary of defense who changed his stand on the war after persuading the president to commit more troops to Vietnam

Question 11

The Tet offensive

Answer 11

1. Marked a Vietcong defeat according to William Westmoreland
2. Jarred American confidence
3. Increased criticism of the war

Question 12

Nixon hoped the policy of Vietnamization would result in all of the following

Answer 12

1. The gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops
2. Peace with honor
3. A stable anti-communist government in South Vietnam

Question 13

Richard Nixon

Answer 13

Secretly ordered U.S. bombing of Cambodia

Question 14

Jackson State College

Answer 14

Location where two students protestors were killed by Mississippi State Police

Question 15

Pentagon Papers

Answer 15

Reveled to the American people that the government had often deceived them about the Vietnam War

Question 16

Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the 1968 election as a result of

Answer 16

The Tet offensive

Question 17

Henry Kissinger

Answer 17

Carried out peace negotiations with North Vietnam during President Nixon’s administration

Question 18

The United States agreed to a cease-fire in

Answer 18

January 1973

Question 19

War Powers Act

Answer 19

Designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability to wage an undeclared war

Question 20

U.S. military operations in Vietnam were

Answer 20

Ineffective against the Vietcong