1960s & Vietnam

The American public began to doubt and dispute the facts being revealed by government officials about the war in Vietnam.

• Credibility Gap
• Silent Majority
• New Frontier
• Peace Corps

The Nixon policy of gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam and returning control of the country back to the Vietnamese.

• Tet Offensive
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Domino Theory
• Vietnamization

What provided congressional support for escalating military action in Vietnam? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Battle Of Midway
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 
• Bay of Pigs Invasion

Limits the power of the President during a time of conflict

• Voting Rights Act
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• War Powers Act

Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?

• Minorities and the poor
• White, middle-class families
• Farmers and laborers
• Businessmen

The goal of the Bay of Pigs incident was

• Overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev
• Removal of nuclear missile sites
• Protection of communism in Europe
• Overthrow of Fidel Castro

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

Allowed the public to consider different viewpoints concerning the  Vietnam war?

• Television 
• Radio
• Telegraph
• Internet

Networks of jungle paths used by N. Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong?

• Saigon Route
• Bataan Death March
• Trail of Tears
• Ho Chi Minh Trail

In Vietnam the fighters used a irregular warfare tactic that made it difficult for our soldiers to be successful...it was called?

• Vietnamese Warfare tactics
• Cheetah Warfare
• Hidden Warfare
• Guerrilla warfare