Vietnam US History

What congressional action gave LBJ war powers & led to an escalation of U.S. forces in Vietnam?

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• War Powers Act

• Mayaguez Incident

• Tet Offensive

The U.S. got involved in Vietnam because of what foreign policy?

• containment

• Good Neighbor policy

• isolationism

• Roosevelt Corollary

The idea that if one country fall to communism, others around it will follow.

• lynch pin theory

• mutual assured destruction

• domino theory

• contaigion theory

Which president was MOST responsible for escalating troop numbers in Vietnam?

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy 

• Johnson

• Nixon

The communist leader of North Vietnam was...

• General Tso 

• Ho Chi Minh

• Chairman Mao Tse Tung

• General Chow Mein 

The Kent State protest reflected student disapproval of

• lack of civil rights

• unequal status of American women

• college tuition

• Vietnam War

What was the main reason the United States occupied Vietnam?

• Protect South Vietnam from invasion from North Vietnam

• Protect North Vietnam from invasion from South Vietnam

• Protect South Vietnam from communism

• Protect North Vietnam from democracy

North and South Vietnam was divided at which parallel

• 17

• 28

• 33

• 38

Identify the leader of South Vietnam who was assassinated

• Ngo Din Diem

• Ho Chi Minh

• Richard Nixon

• Hirihito

National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of protesting students, killing 4 

• Kent State University

• Texas State University

• University of California at Berkeley

• University of Michigan