Vietnam War Bank for Review 2023

American military forces entered Vietnam in order to

• try to drive the communists out of North Vietnam.

• help to stage a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem.

• prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists.

• establish defensive perimeters around Saigon and other Vietnamese cities.

• promote democratic reforms in South Vietnam.

With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• the United States declared war on Vietnam.

• Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.

• the military was given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons.

• Congress maintained its war-declaring power.

• the goals of American military involvement in Vietnam were clear.

Aerial bombardment in Vietnam

• worked very well.

• strengthened the communists' will to resist.

• strengthened the will of America's South Vietnamese allies to fight.

• had no effect on the war.

• destroyed North Vietnamese industry.

The focal point of congressional opposition to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War policy was

• the House Ways and Means Committee.

• the Republican party in both the Senate and the House.

• the Senate office of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

• Senator Richard Russell's Armed Services Committee.

• Senator William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee.

The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy

• came with the bombing of Cambodia.

• occurred when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigned.

• was the Tet offensive of 1968.

• occurred when Senator J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee held public hearings on the war.

• came with the revelation that the Tonkin Gulf attacks had been provoked by the United States.

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to

• lead an invasion of Cambodia.

• spy on domestic antiwar protestors.

• infiltrate FBI headquarters.

• help destabilize the government of Thailand.

• protect prowar presidential candidates.

The political challenge to President Johnson's Vietnam policies gained great momentum when

• the Senate voted to cut off funds for any further escalation of the war.

• the favorite for the Republican nomination, Richard Nixon, began opposing the war.

• third-party challenger George Wallace began criticizing Johnson.

• Vice President Hubert Humphrey turned against Johnson's policies.

• Senator Eugene McCarthy nearly defeated Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should

• negotiate an immediate end to the Vietnam War.

• withdraw U.S. troops to safe enclaves.

• withdraw American forces from Vietnam.

• escalate the bombing of North Vietnam.

• continue the war in pursuit of an honorable peace.

One reason for the end of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s was

• the entry of large numbers of women in the workforce.

• the Arab oil embargo.

• a decline in technological innovation.

• a lack of government safety and health regulations.

• a drastic decline in worker productivity.

Lyndon Johnson's insistence on fighting the Vietnam War and funding the Great Society without a tax increase to pay for them led to

• a drastic inflation of prices in the 1970s.

• a decline in the competitive advantage of American business.

• severe cutbacks in the size of the federal government.

• a taxpayer revolt.

• a growing reliance on overseas trade to sustain the American economy.