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Vietnam War Era

Vietnam War Era. Test Review. 1968 or NOT?. LBJ wins the presidency. 1968 or NOT?. MLK is shot. 1968 or NOT?. JFK is assassinated. 1968 or NOT?. RFK is assassinated. 1968 or NOT?. The Tet Offensive takes US forces by surprise. 1968 or NOT?.

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Vietnam War Era

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  1. Vietnam War Era Test Review

  2. 1968 or NOT? LBJ wins the presidency.

  3. 1968 or NOT? MLK is shot

  4. 1968 or NOT? JFK is assassinated

  5. 1968 or NOT? RFK is assassinated

  6. 1968 or NOT? The Tet Offensive takes US forces by surprise

  7. 1968 or NOT? Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  8. 1968 or NOT? SDS is founded

  9. 1968 or NOT? The Woodstock Festival occurs in Bethel, NY

  10. 1968 or NOT? Nixon wins the presidency.

  11. 1968 or NOT? My Lai Massacre occurs.

  12. 1968 or NOT? Cronkite predicts a stalemate in the Vietman War.

  13. 1968 or NOT? Jane Fonda shows support for the NVA.

  14. 1968 or NOT? Nixon authorized bombing in Cambodia to knock out the VC supply line

  15. 1968 or NOT? Ms. Barker is born

  16. True or False? Blacks and Hispanics were drafted at a proportional rate to their ratio in the general population.

  17. True or False? The US military was severely defeated during the Tet Offensive.

  18. True or False? Women and children were used by the VC to damage efforts to keep out communism.

  19. True or False? Veterans felt compelled to travel in civilian clothes when returning home to avoid being spat at.

  20. True or False? Ho Chi Minh used portions of the Declaration of Independence when separating from France to get the US on his side.

  21. True or False? Ngo Dinh Diem was a well loved South Vietnamese leader whose sudden death saddened much of his country.

  22. True or False? MLK believed that the Vietnam War would give Blacks the opportunity to earn respect and gain civil rights.

  23. True or False? The body count was an effective measure of success in the Vietnam War.

  24. True or False? The moonwalk happened the same summer as the Woodstock Festival.

  25. True or False? The more radical acts of the counterculture helped usher conservatives like Nixon and Reagan into office.

  26. True or False? The counterculture rejected all forms of religion as oppressive.

  27. True or False? The pill enabled the freer sexual tendencies of the counterculture.

  28. General Questions How many Congress people voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

  29. General Questions What was the primary supply route to deliver weapons to the Viet Cong?

  30. General Questions What student organization was created in the 60s for general protest against corporations, but later encouraged anti-war protests at US universities?

  31. General Questions How did Generals start to measure success in battles in Vietnam?

  32. General Questions Who was president when combat troops entered Vietnam?

  33. General Questions Who was president when Vietnam was divided in two?

  34. General Questions Who was president when combat troops were brought home from Vietnam?

  35. General Questions Who was president when the helicopters were needed to evacuate the remaining personnel in Saigon in 1975?

  36. General Questions At what university did the National Guard overreact during an anti-war protest?

  37. General Questions Who burned himself in downtown Saigon?

  38. General Questions The two birds that are used to represent war and peace?

  39. General Questions How did the press refer to the documents that Daniel Ellsburg leaked?

  40. General Questions What musical artist protested the War with these songs: Masters of War and A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall ?

  41. General Questions Whose campaign slogan was “peace with honor”?

  42. General Questions What specific recent activity taken on by Nixon were students protesting at Kent State in 1970?

  43. General Questions What is the full name of the leader of North Vietnam?

  44. General Questions Who was the news anchor who mentioned a sense of lost cause regarding the Vietnam War during his coverage of the Tet Offensive?

  45. General Questions Who was JFK and LBJ’s Secretary of Defense who helped to escalate the Vietnam War, much to his embarrassment later on in life?

  46. General Questions Who did Nixon send to negotiate peace with North Vietnam in 1969 and 1972?

  47. General Questions What was the name for someone who avoided service in Vietnam by going to Canada or faking homosexuality?

  48. General Questions Who was the creator of the idea of containing communism who ended up condemning the Vietnam War?

  49. General Questions Who manipulated events in August 1964 to gain support for increased military action in Vietnam?

  50. General Questions What was the name for someone who got out of the draft for religious or moral reasons?

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