What Were the Pentagon Papers?- Video Questions

The _________ included top secret and incriminating information about the Vietnam War

• Pentagon Papers
• Watergate Scandal
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Cuban Missile Crisis

True or False: The Pentagon Papers were not a good look for the United States

• True

• False

True or False: The Pentagon paper revealed that the United States had always been truthful to the American people about the Vietnam war

• True

• False

Who did Daniel Ellsberg leak top secret information to?

• The Washington Post

• The New York Times

• The Guardian
• The Wall Street Journal

True or False: The Pentagon papers revealed that many Presidents of the United States had been lying about Vietnam

• True

• False

In 1971, President Nixon tried to ______ the New York Times from releasing the story

• praise
• buy
• stop
• promote

What was President Nixon's argument against the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers

• He believed it was a violation of copyright laws

• He argued it was a breach of his personal privacy
• He stated it was an infringement of the freedom of press
• He claimed it was a violation of national security

The Supreme Court decided that under the freedom of ______ , the government did not have a strong enough case to stop the New York Times

• petition

• religion

• the press

• assembly

True or False: Nixon won the fight with the New York Times and their article was never printed

• True

• False

The New York Times case set a precedent [example] about publishing _______

• advertisements

• celebrity gossip
• classified documents

• comic strips