Multiple Choice Chapter 28 Self-Quiz 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. correct incorrect

CIA agents secretly provided Ho Chi Minh's guerilla forces with weapons. correct incorrect

The United States insisted on complete neutrality in Indochina. correct incorrect

The United States supplied France with money and arms to suppress the Vietminh. correct incorrect

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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?

students correct incorrect

Buddhists correct incorrect

nationalists correct incorrect

Catholics correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

It negotiated with North Vietnamese diplomats in Geneva. correct incorrect

It bombed North Vietnam continuously. correct incorrect

It infiltrated the organization known as the Ho Chi Minh trail. correct incorrect

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. In the Vietnam War, General Westmoreland advocated a strategy of

attrition. correct incorrect

conquest. correct incorrect

surveillance. correct incorrect

protraction. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following allies provided the United States with additional troops for the war in Vietnam?

South Korea correct incorrect

South Africa correct incorrect

West Germany correct incorrect

France correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

26 percent correct incorrect

46 percent correct incorrect

66 percent correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

The annual fireworks would mask the sound of the first explosions. correct incorrect

They expected most GIs to drink heavily on Tet. correct incorrect

Tet was an annual cease-fire and the attack would be a surprise. correct incorrect

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. Who did antiwar Democrats pick as a challenger to President Johnson in the fall of 1967?

Robert Kennedy correct incorrect

Hubert Humphrey correct incorrect

Eugene McCarthy correct incorrect

Jimmy Carter correct incorrect

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. Who did Alabama Governor George C. Wallace appeal to the most in the 1968 presidential election?

California Republicans correct incorrect

the northeastern business elite correct incorrect

rural African Americans correct incorrect

the southern white working class correct incorrect

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. How did the Nixon administration manage to divert public attention from the Vietnam War in 1969?

by talking about Watergate correct incorrect

by attacking the Great Society correct incorrect

by Vietnamizing the war correct incorrect

by negotiating a weapons limitation treaty with the Soviet Union correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

North Vietnam agreed to remove all troops from the South. correct incorrect

The United States agreed to release all its prisoners of war. correct incorrect

South Vietnam's leader Thieu agreed to leave the country for exile in Paris. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

after a change in leadership in the Kremlin. correct incorrect

when Nixon tried to salvage his reputation for foreign policy accomplishments. correct incorrect

after Nixon and Brezhnev developed a personal friendship with each other. correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

that it shield Mossad agents out to assassinate Arab terrorists correct incorrect

that it extradite Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann correct incorrect

hat it supply tanks, arms, planes, and ammunition during the Yom Kippur War correct incorrect

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. In the early 1970s, Congress addressed the concerns of consumer advocacy groups by creating the

Occupational Health and Safety Administration. correct incorrect

Environmental Protection Agency. correct incorrect

Consumer Products Safety Council. correct incorrect

Food and Drug Administration. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

John Dean. correct incorrect

H. R. Haldeman. correct incorrect

Bob Woodward. correct incorrect