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1Vietnam spent more than a millennium under the imperial rule of

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2Which of the following was not a province of colonial French Indochina?

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3All of the following countries ruled Vietnam as an imperial or colonial power at some point except

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4Which of the following was the site of a major French defeat in 1954?

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5The French established their colonial capital of Vietnam at

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6Who was the former emperor of Vietnam whom the French reinstalled as a figurehead in 1949?

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7Who was the U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam until 1963?

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8Which international agreement split North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1954?

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9The dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam lay along the

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10What did the domino theory state?

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11On which religious group did the Diem regime crack down severely?

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12In which body of water were two U.S. destroyers allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in August 1964?

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13Ho Chi Minh was associated with

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14The South Vietnamese “first lady” who was infamous for controversial comments was called

15 of 50
15Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia prompted Congress to pass the

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16In 1963, a Buddhist monk protesting Diem’s regime killed himself in public by

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17Which of the following men was not assassinated?

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18The policy of Vietnamization called for

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19What did COINTELPRO do?

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20The Viet Cong raid at Pleiku gave Johnson justification to begin

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21What did the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?

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22Why did many South Vietnamese resent U.S. military participation in the Vietnam War?

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23After the 1968 Tet Offensive, General Westmoreland

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24Which of the following did not contribute to U.S. paranoia about Communism in the late 1940s?

25 of 50
25The Viet Cong proved a formidable enemy for all of the following reasons except

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26Which of the following played an unforeseen, important role in the Vietnam War?

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27All of the following were associated with the U.S. antiwar movement except

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28Why did Nixon initiate warmer relations with China in 1972?

29 of 50
29The Nixon Doctrine stipulated that

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30What is napalm?

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31All of the following statements about the Pentagon Papers are true except

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32Which U.S. official tried to negotiate an end to the war through secret talks with Viet Cong official Le Duc Tho?

33 of 50
33With which president is the policy of Vietnamization associated?

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34With which president is the policy of Americanization associated?

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35The failed U.S. initiative to relocate Vietnamese peasants to specific villages was called the

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36The My Lai Massacre of 1968 turned American public opinion against

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37The Viet Cong differed from the NVA in that

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38Hubert Humphrey lost the presidential election of 1968 partly because of his association with

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39Johnson and the military’s request for more troops in 1968 coupled with their assurances that the United States was winning the war in Vietnam helped form the

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40Which of the following did not cause a scandal in the Nixon administration?

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41On which president’s watch did the largest increases in U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam occur?

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42Nixon used the term “silent majority” to refer to Americans who supported

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43Which Constitutional amendment lowered the U.S. voting age from twenty-one to eighteen?

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44All of the following eroded the American public’s support for the war except

45 of 50
45What was the COSVN?

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46Which famous actress made a notorious 1972 visit to North Vietnam?

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47Sporadic incidents in which U.S. soldiers killed their own superior officers in order not to be sent on combat missions were referred to as

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48Saigon finally fell to North Vietnamese forces in

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49What was Vietnam officially called beginning in 1976?

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50Who succeeded Ho Chi Minh as head of the Vietnamese Communist Party upon Ho’s death?

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