Vietnam War

Multiple Choice

(Review) What contributed to the end of Cuban Missile Crisis?

• America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey.

• The discovery that the missles had been removed from Cuba

• Castor's promise to restore democracy

• Castro's promise to break with the Soviet Union

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(Review) Hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action was known as ______.

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

• Cold War

• Brinkmanship

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The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

• Vietnamization 

• Communism

• Domino Theory

• Imperialism

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Who inherited the problem of Vietnam from Kennedy?

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Lyndon Johnson

• Robert McNamara

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The ____ granted the president broad military powers in Vietnam

• Geneva Accords

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• Marshall Plan

• Operation Rolling Thunders

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What provided congressional support for escalating military action in Vietnam? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Battle Of Midway

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

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Napalm

• A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses

• A type of lotion soldiers would use to get rid of the sent on their clothing

• Another name for a flamethrower

• An intensely burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

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Agent Orange

• Nickname of a Soviet agent that would always wear orange while on important missions

• Term used to describe the South Vietnamese agents because they 

• A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses

• An intensely burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

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How did American citizens react to the Tet Offensive?

• They were discouraged

• They became more committed to the war

• They were indifferent

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What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?

• The Geneva Accords

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• The Tet Offensive

• Gulf of Tonkin

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Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

• Vietminization

• Vietcong

• Internationalism

• Linkage