Vietnam War Era

Why was President Kennedy worried about Fidel Castro's close ties with the Soviet Union?

• Cuba could become a gateway to Soviet ideas to spread throughout Latin America

• The Soviets could stop the plan Kennedy had devised to overthrow Castro

• Cuba could prove a distraction for the Soviets from troubles such as the Berlin Wall

• The Soviets could use Cuba as a base from which to launch a missile attack on the United States

What was the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961?

• Castro's plan to stage a coup and set up a Communist government in Cuba

• Eisenhower's plan to overthrow Castro using the CIA

• Kennedy's plan to overthrow Castro using the U.S. Navy and Air Force

• anti-Castro Cubans' plan to escape the country

What started the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• A U.S. raid uncovered nuclear missiles on Soviet ships delivering food to Cuba

• Soviet leader Nikita Kkrushchev announced he had installed weapons in Cuba

• American spy planes discovered that the Soviets were installing nuclear weapons in Cuba

• Fidel Castro announced that Cuba had allowed the Soviets to install nuclear weapons on the island

What was the goal of Ho Chi Minh?

• French-controlled Vietnam

• a Communist revolution in Cuba

• a Communist revolution in Vietnam

• the colonization of Cambodia by Vietnam

What 1964 event led to more U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

• the French lost control of Vietnam to the Vietcong

• a group of South Vietnamese army officers killed Ngo Dinh Diem

• U.S. ships in the Tonkin Gulf reported being attacked

• the Soviets installed weapons in Vietnam

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• authorized the president to call for a nationwide draft of all men registered with the Selective Service

• formally declared war with North Vietnam, allowing Congress to budget millions of dollars for the war effort

• gave the president authority to take all necessary means to repel an armed attack against U.S. forces

• permitted the government to quell the antiwar movement by deporting its leaders to Canada

During the Vietnam War, hawks and doves in America disagreed on whether:

• funding domestic programs was more important than winning the war

• the U.S. forces should use a nuclear bomb to force the Vietcong to surrender

• the United States should have a draft

• China should be involved in the war

What was President Nixon's plan for the Vietnam War?

• educate Americans about Vietnamese culture

• focus American manufacturing on the war effort

• have the South Vietnamese army take over the fighting

• return Vietnamese society to pre-war conditions

How did the Vietnam War end for the U.S.?

• The United States signed a cease-fire agreement in 1973 and returned the troops home

• North Vietnam captured Saigon and created a unified nation in 1975

• Communist dictators took over Laos and Cambodia in 1977

• North Vietnam returned all prisoners of war in 1979

What does the War Powers Act state?

• the public must be granted access to any information about the country's progress in war

• the President can stop aggressors by any means necessary

• the President must get congressional approval before committing troops to an armed conflict

• Military officials can decide whether a country enters a war