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Multiple Choice Chapter 28 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 28.2
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What was the position of the United States on the conflict in Indochina prior to 1954?
American officials worked tirelessly to convince the French to abandon their colony.
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CIA agents secretly provided Ho Chi Minh's guerilla forces with weapons.
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The United States insisted on complete neutrality in Indochina.
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The United States supplied France with money and arms to suppress the Vietminh.
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Which of the following were the least likely to be members of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam in the 1960s?
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Buddhists
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nationalists
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Catholics
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Between 1964 and 1967, how did the United States try to prevent Ho Chi Minh from sending supplies and troops to the South?
It ran search and rescue missions in South Vietnam.
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It negotiated with North Vietnamese diplomats in Geneva.
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It bombed North Vietnam continuously.
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It infiltrated the organization known as the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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In the Vietnam War, General Westmoreland advocated a strategy of
attrition.
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conquest.
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surveillance.
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protraction.
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Which of the following allies provided the United States with additional troops for the war in Vietnam?
South Korea
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South Africa
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West Germany
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France
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By the end of 1967, what percentage of Americans believed that U.S. involvement in Vietnam was a mistake?
16 percent
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26 percent
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46 percent
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66 percent
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Why did North Vietnamese leaders decide to launch a nationwide offensive throughout South Vietnam during the lunar new year celebration of Tet?
Most civilians would be secure and off the streets.
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The annual fireworks would mask the sound of the first explosions.
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They expected most GIs to drink heavily on Tet.
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Tet was an annual cease-fire and the attack would be a surprise.
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Who did antiwar Democrats pick as a challenger to President Johnson in the fall of 1967?
Robert Kennedy
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Hubert Humphrey
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Eugene McCarthy
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Jimmy Carter
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Who did Alabama Governor George C. Wallace appeal to the most in the 1968 presidential election?
California Republicans
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the northeastern business elite
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rural African Americans
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the southern white working class
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How did the Nixon administration manage to divert public attention from the Vietnam War in 1969?
by talking about Watergate
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by attacking the Great Society
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by Vietnamizing the war
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by negotiating a weapons limitation treaty with the Soviet Union
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North Vietnam and the United States reached an agreement in Paris in January 1973 after
North Vietnam dropped its demand that South Vietnam's leader Thieu resign.
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North Vietnam agreed to remove all troops from the South.
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The United States agreed to release all its prisoners of war.
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South Vietnam's leader Thieu agreed to leave the country for exile in Paris.
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In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on two treaties limiting each country's nuclear arsenals and capabilities
after years of secret negotiations.
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after a change in leadership in the Kremlin.
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when Nixon tried to salvage his reputation for foreign policy accomplishments.
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after Nixon and Brezhnev developed a personal friendship with each other.
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What did Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir ask of the United States in October 1973?
that it stay out of the business of OPEC
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that it shield Mossad agents out to assassinate Arab terrorists
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that it extradite Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
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hat it supply tanks, arms, planes, and ammunition during the Yom Kippur War
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In the early 1970s, Congress addressed the concerns of consumer advocacy groups by creating the
Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
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Environmental Protection Agency.
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Consumer Products Safety Council.
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Food and Drug Administration.
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The employee of the Committee to Reelect the President in charge of orchestrating the seven burglars caught in the Watergate scandal was
G. Gordon Liddy.
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John Dean.
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H. R. Haldeman.
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Bob Woodward.
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