APUSH Chp 29

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the use of the draft during the Vietnam War?

• Early on in the war exemptions were provided for students enrolled in college.

• The average age of the serviceman and women in Vietnam was twenty-two.

• Almost 50 percent of the draftees killed in Vietnam were black.

• Even more than in other recent wars, the sons of the poor and the working class shouldered a disproportionate amount of fighting.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• followed an unprovoked attack by North Vietnam on American troops.

• was hotly debated and passed by a narrow margin.

• authorized the president to send American troops to Vietnam.

• led to a congressional declaration of war three days later.

In 1954,

• Ho chi Minh was executed by the French for treason.

• Vietnamese Nationalists and Communists declared the country's independence from France.

• The Geneva accords provided that Vietnam should be partitioned into two independent states, Communist North Vietnam and anti-Communist South Vietnam.

• South Vietnam's premier had himself elected president in a rigged election and then called off scheduled reunification elections.

Opposition to Ngo Dinh Diem came in part from

• South Vietnamese Catholics.

• South Vietnamese Buddhists.

• President Eisenhower.

• New Left members who protested his treatment of the Vietnamese people.

What was President Eisenhower's policy toward South Vietnam?

• He gave it little attention after Ngo Dinh Diem took power, allowing the French to continue exercising a predominant influence.

• He created a major American naval base.

• He considered it to be vital to American security in East Asia, sending an average of $200 million in aid every year and a small contingent of U.S. military advisors.

• After the elections were canceled in 1956 Eisenhower discontinued aid to South Vietnam.

The War Powers Act

• was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme court in 1982.

• was recommended by President Nixon to guard against future Korea's and Vietnam's

• stated that the president must report any use of military force within forty-eight hours and those hostilities must cease within sixty days unless Congress declares war.

• provides American soldiers with amnesty for any "war crime" committed during war time.

Four people were killed and eleven wounded at Kent State University when

• President Johnson ordered the National Guard to resist antiwar protesters with "deadly force."

• ROTC students fought with civil rights activists.

• Panicky National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of students at an antiwar rally.

• "Conservative" Americans tried to break up the student protest.

My Lai was

• a town captured during the Tet offensive.

• the ancient capital of Vietnam and a center of Buddhist antiwar protest.

• the site of important battle in the Vietnam War.

• the site of the massacre of 350 villagers by American soldiers.

Which one of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Tet offensive?

• A military victory for the Vietcong.

• A psychological victory for the Vietcong.

• An example of guerilla warfare at its highest level.

• A major shift in American public opinion about the war.

In 1968 election and during the Nixon administration, the expression "silent majority" was used to refer to Americans who

• were too apathetic to vote.

• secretly wished for withdrawal from Vietnam.

• felt that their hopes for the Great Society were being crushed b the war in Vietnam.

• were hardworking, non-protesting, and white.