WorksheetsAPUSH Chp 29
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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.
The efforts by American Indians in the 1960's and 1970's to demand greater equality and a redress of past injustices was most influenced by
the African American civil rights movement.
Latinos and Asian Americans demanding greater equality.
the profound changes to the family structure in American society.
environmental problems and the abuse of natural resources.
From 1969-1972, Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam war was to
work with the Soviet Union to settle the war on terms that would not be to China's advantage.
broaden and intensify it so that North Vietnam would be forced to negotiate a settlement.
keep the war going until the eve of the 1972 election, when he could make peace and win reelection without by punished at the polls for the subsequent Communist takeover of South Vietnam that he knew would occur.
reduce American troop involvement and to turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army.
The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
thought that the university was too involved in social issues.
erupted when city police tried to take over a vacant lot that students and local residents had turned into a "people's park."
arose when the university banned political activity at a campus site that was traditionally reserved for leafleting and recruiting by student groups.
was organized by students for a democratic society (SDS)
As it applied to gender, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
provided for equal pay for equal work.
barred discrimination in employment.
guaranteed equal pay for jobs that were of comparable difficulty.
required equal funding of men's and women's student activities.
Consciousness raising
led to women's rejection of feminist ideology.
involved group sessions in which women shared their experiences of being female.
was a male reaction to early feminism.
a term used by teenagers to justify their drug use.
