history quiz friday april

Question 1

How did Lyndon Johnson become president?

Answer 1

because JFK was assassinated

Question 2

Who did Lyndon Johnson defeat in the election of 1964?

Answer 2

Barry Goldwater

Question 3

what was the significance of the daisy ad?

Answer 3

it scared americans –> believed that if you were voting for Barry then you were supporting nuclear war

Question 4

what was the great society? Identify a few signature pieces of legislation.

Answer 4

LBJ’s domestic policy

• medicaid
• medicare
• programs to cure poverty

Question 5

how was vietnam divided after WW2?

Answer 5

17th parallel

Question 6

who was the communnist leader in the North?

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh

Question 7

why was the democratic president not popular in the south?

Answer 7

he was catholic whereas everyone else was buddhist ; buddhist monks are setting themselves on fire

Question 8

is it clear weather the US destroyer Maddox was attacked by communist forces in 1964?

Answer 8

yeah it is clear , didn’t happen

Question 9

Why is the Gulf of tonkin resolution referred to as Grandma’s Nigh shirt?

Answer 9

it covers everything (all the costs of war) ; it gave them the power to wage war without people knowing

Question 10

what was operation rolling thunder?

Answer 10

indiscriminate bombing of vietnam

Question 11

The attack in 1968 on 100 cities in the south convinced many Americans that could not win in Vietnam:

Answer 11

Tet offensive

Question 12

who was Ho Chi Minh?

Answer 12

communist leader of the north

Question 13

what was the vietcong?

Answer 13

communist forces in the south that support Ho Chi Minh

Question 14

What was the Ho Chi Minh trail?

Answer 14

underground tunnels from north to south Vietnam where they would carry supplies

Question 15

What was the Tonkin Gulf incident?

Answer 15

The maddox ship got torpedoed

Question 16

what was the tonkin gulf resolution?

Answer 16

gives the president power wage war on viernam

Question 17

what chemical was used to defoliate the jungle? what impact did it have on those exposed to it?

Answer 17

agent orange

Question 18

what made search & destroy missions particularly hard?

Answer 18

that the enemy is not in uniform, so they’re hard to find. “The enemy is illusive”

Question 19

what was the tet offensive?

Answer 19

organized attack from the communists on 100 cities

Question 20

how did walter cronkite create a “credibility gap” after the test offensive?

Answer 20

he tells America that he doesn’t think we cannot win, the government is saying that we ARE winning ; someone is lying

Question 21

what type of individuals where apart of the vietnam draft? what was the voting age?

Answer 21

males that were 18 years old

Question 22

whats the difference between doves and hawks?

Answer 22

doves want peace ; hawks are supportive of the war

Question 23

what made 1968 one of the “worst years ever” in American history?

Answer 23

MLK and RFK got assassinated

Question 24

the secret war

Answer 24

cambodia, laos

Question 25

nixon’s 1968 campaign promised and end to the war: “Peace with Honor”

Answer 25

appealed to the great “silent majority”

Question 26

what was agent orange

Answer 26

the chemical defoliant used to destroy the jungle and kill trees and food crops

Question 27

blue collar

Answer 27

working class america ; they support the war

Question 28

hippies want what

Answer 28

peace and love –> people thought they were privileged

Question 29

Walter Cronkite

Answer 29

was telling people that we weren’t winning the war, the government was telling them that we ARE winning the war