Vietnam and 1970s Presidents

Young protesters especially focused on what they saw as an unfair

• Draft system

• Credibility gap

• Teach-in

• Division in Vietnam

The Pentagon Papers revealed that

• many more Americans had died in Vietnam than had been reported

• American Soldiers had massacred Vietnamese civilians in MyLai

• American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons

• The government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam

Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped

• raise Johnson's ratings in the polls

• unify American's behind the war

• create a credibility gap

• support the nation's hawks

The goal of Agent Orange was to:

• infiltrate the Vietcong military

• sabotage the Vietcong equipment

• destroy the ability to hide in the jungles

• aid Vietcong supply lines

Following the Tet Offensive, many Americans began to fear that

• North Vietnam had nuclear weapons

• The war could not be won

• Vietnamization would fail

• The Soviet Union would deploy troops to South Vietnam

On August 7th 1964, Congress, in effect, handed its war powers over to the President when it passed the

• Geneva Accords

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnam Resolution

• Domino Theory Resolution

The gradual withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam by Nixon was called

• the credibility gap

• Westernization

• Vietnamization

• The Domino Theory

Before the Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh had previously organized the Viet Minh to resist occupation by which two countries?

• France

• Russia

• China

• Japan

• United States

The communists in North Vietnam and the Viet Cong received military weapons and other support from the Soviet Union and

• China

• Japan

• Italy

• East Germany

After the United States ended its direct involvement in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese captured Saigon and united Vietnam under

• a democratic ruler

• nationalist rule

• rule of the United Nations

• Communist rule