Vietnam Conflict

Question 0

The United States supported the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 0

True

Question 1

Pres. Truman was the first president to give aid to Vietnam

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Congress gave Pres. Johnson complete control of the Vietnam conflict, even reducing their powers

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Pres. Johnson waits until the 1968 election to escalate American military involvement

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Tet offensive place January 30, 1968

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The US and South Vietnam won the Tet offensive

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The Tet Offensive led to the destruction of the Vietcong as an organized military unit

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Leader of the North Vietnamese

Answer 7

Ho Chi Minh

Question 8

South Vietnamese communist guerrillas

Answer 8

Vietcong

Question 9

Strategic bombing of North Vietnamese targets

Answer 9

Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 10

Leader of the My Lai Massacre

Answer 10

Lt. William Calley

Question 11

President that ended American involvement in the conflict

Answer 11

Richard M. Nixon

Question 12

Who said, “ If we lose Walter, we have lost the country.”

Answer 12

LBJ

Question 13

In March ( ), the My Lai Massacre occurred

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

The Vietnam War ended in April 1975 when North Vietnamese troops captured

Answer 14

Saigon

Question 15

Pres. Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through

Answer 15

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 16

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 16

Was a corrupt and ruthless leader of South Vietnam overthrown in 1963

Question 17

The 1968 Tet Offensive

Answer 17

Lead to the belief in the United States at the Vietnam War was unwinnable

Question 18

The invasion if Cambodia by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1979

Answer 18

D the domestic antiwar movement in United States and led to large demonstrations

Question 19

President Nixon’s “Vietnamization” policy sought to

Answer 19

Build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops