US History EOC Review #5

161. Which details BEST describe the Bay of Pigs?

• use of the Navy to close Cuban custom houses and collect debts

• revolution by Cuban sugar growers to push out American businesses

• American support for a coup in Cuba that brought Castro to power

• botched CIA operation to overthrow the communist government; blamed on Kennedy

162. Which option BEST describes the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Soviet nuclear missiles remained in Cuba after a United Nations vote.

• JFK targeted Moscow with a nuclear strike as a threat to withdraw missiles.

• Khrushchev withdrew his support from Castro and Cuba became a democracy.

• JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba to turn back Soviet ships carrying missiles.

163. The belief that countries in Southeast Asia would fall like dominoes to communism brought the United States directly into a war in

• Cambodia.

• Thailand.

• Burma.

• Vietnam

164. Before Vietnam split into North and South, the territory was known as

• Siam.

• French Indochina.

• Manchuria.

• British Malaysia.

165. Which event allowed President Johnson to get a “blank check” from Congress to send combat troops to Vietnam?

• Tet Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• My Lai Massacre

• Gulf of Tonkin incident

166. The graph shows that the war in Vietnam escalated primarily during the administration of

• Eisenhower.

• Kennedy.

• Johnson.

• Nixon.

167. What was an outcome of the North Vietnamese success in the Tet Offensive?

• It caused Americans to realize, shockingly, that we were losing the war.

• President Johnson began the removal of troops from the war.

• It caused a change in American tactics to search-and-destroy missions.

• President Nixon began the peace talks with the North Vietnamese.

168. Considering the information in the 1968 graph, and using your knowledge of the period, choose ALL the factors that likely led to President Johnson refusing to seek a second term.

• rising costs of war

• rising numbers of casualties

• strong anti-war movement

• Tet Offensive losses

• economic impacts like inflation

170. The shootings at Kent State had which long-term effect on the anti-war movement?

• It generated more sympathy and support for the anti-war movement.

• It caused the movement to break up and disintegrate on college campuses.

• It further divided old and young Americans over the course and purpose of the war.

• It began a standard response to use the National Guard to keep order on campuses.

171. The 1969 gathering of thousands of young people at Woodstock has become iconic for which reasons?  Choose ALL that apply.

• performances by legends like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin

• prolific use of drugs, particularly LSD

• “free love”

• anti-war agenda

• defining moment of the counterculture