Vietnam EOC Warm-up/Exit Ticket

What was the PRIMARY motive for the U.S. government's policy of supporting the government of South Vietnam?

• Encouraging the spread of economic prosperity

• Preventing the spread of infectious disease

• Containing the spread of communism

• Promoting the spread of democracy

How did media coverage of the attack described in this headline influence the Vietnam War?

• By increasing Allied approval of using atomic weapons in Vietnam

• By weakening international support for North Vietnam

• By weakening public support for U.S. participation in Vietnam

• By increasing demands for South Vietnam to sign an alliance with China

In 1970, students at Kent State University gathered because of U.S. involvement in the ​ (a)   War. Ohio National Guard troops fired on the crowd, and four students were shot. The incident at Kent State University ​ (b)  

• Vietnam
• weakened public support for the war.
• Korea
• Persian Gulf
• strengthened support for the government 
• weakened the anti-war movement

The ​ (a)   lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1971.

• 26th Amendment
• 24th Amendment
• 21st Amendment
• 18th Amendment

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Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez saved the lives of fellow soldiers while under heavy enemy attack and after sustaining wounds while assisting on a team extraction in Vietnam on May 2, 1968. In recognition of the actions described, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was —

• given an early honorable discharge from U.S. military service

• awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor

• made an honorary member of the United Nations

• awarded the Legion of Honor ribbon

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution increased the power of the executive branch by —

• allowing the president to use military force without a declaration of war by Congress

• authorizing the president to choose the Senate Majority Leader

• allowing the president to introduce bills to Congress

• expanding the president’s right to executive privilege

As part of the Nixon administration’s policy of Vietnamization, the U.S. military —

• trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat responsibilities from U.S. troops

• shared military technology with North Vietnam

• imposed martial law in North Vietnam

• installed a puppet government in South Vietnam

Which part of Vietnam did the U.S. support?

Match the anti-war events to the correct description

• 4 students were killed in a protest

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Expressed dissent about the war

• Anti-War Songs

• Students' rights to free speech

• Kent State

• Colleges held public demonstrations

• College Sit-ins

Term popularized by Nixon for people who did not express their opinions publicly about Vietnam, join in the counterculture movements or participate in public discourse.

• Hawks

• Doves

• Silent Majority

• College Activists