Vietnam and the 1960s

This amendment gained support based on the belief that people should have the right to vote if they are old enough to - 

• drive motorized vehicles
• serve as members of juries
• pay federal income taxes
• be drafted into the military

Which event is commonly associated with the type of music described in this excerpt?

• The March on Washington
• The Freedom Rides
• Woodstock
• The California Grape Boycott

This excerpt describes changes in student fashion toward the end of - 

• the Jazz Age
• the Cold War
• the counterculture movement
• the conservative movement

Which theme formed the basis of the Chicano Mural Movement?

• Environmental preservation

• Assimilation

• Education

• Cultural pride

On January 22, 1964, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Secretary of Defense McNamara a memorandum that included the following recommendations:

o Assign responsibilities for the total US program in Vietnam to the US military commander

o Commit additional US forces, as necessary, in support of the combat action within South Vietnam

o Commit US forces, as necessary, in direct actions against North Vietnam

What happened as a direct result of these recommendations?

• North Vietnamese leaders appealed for a ceasefire.

• US military involvement in Vietnam escalated.

• South Vietnamese leaders rejected military assistance

• Soviet ground troops were deployed to Vietnam.

The domino theory, which provided the basis for US entry into the Vietnam War, was the belief that intervention was necessary to prevent-

• the expansion of communism across Southeast Asia

• the inclusion of Taiwan in the Warsaw Pact

• the loss of UN military bases in Asia

• the rise of China as a dominant economic power

Which of these best explains why worldwide reactions to US involvement in Vietnam grew increasingly hostile during the late 1960s and the early 1970s?

• The United States was viewed as appeasing a brutal dictator.

• The United States demanded the unconditional surrender of Ho Chi Minh.

• The United States was viewed as an aggressor invading an underdeveloped nation.

• The United States ignored a United Nations Security Council resolution to cease hostilities.

The primary reason given by US leaders to justify military involvement in Vietnam was that it would-

• promote reconstruction after World War II

• maintain the policy of detente

• fulfill prior United Nations obligations

• keep communism from spreading throughout the region

As part of the Nixon administration's policy of Vietnamization, the US military-

• trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat responsibilities from US troops

• shared military technology with North Vietnam

• imposed martial law in North Vietnam

• installed a puppet government in South Vietnam

During the time between the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and start of the Tet offensive, what happened in the Vietnam War?

• All US civilians were evacuated from Vietnam.

• Peace talks between South Vietnam and North Vietnam were conducted in Paris.

• The US government deployed more troops to Vietnam.

• South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam.