77.  In 1970, Kent State University witnessed the first killing of U.S. student protesters.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
78.  President Nixon policy to replace U.S. ground troops with South Vietnamese troops was called Americanization.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: V
79.  American outrage at the war continued when Lt. William Calley Jr. was convicted of leading a massacre of South Vietnamese men, women and children in the village of My Lai.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
80.  The only way for a young American male to avoid the draft was to go to Canada.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
81.  After the United States government changed the draft to the lottery system, the recruitment of soldiers was finally equitable.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
82.  Vietnam veterans were not opposed to the war until after the discovery of physical effects such as cancer from Agent Orange.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
83.  Even though Operation Rolling Thunder was successful in the bombing of many North Vietnamese military targets, it failed to break the will of the North Vietnamese Army and can therefore be considered a failure. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
84.  The torture of prisoners on both sides of the conflict in Vietnam was carried out, both against military pilots from United States as well as against suspected Vietcong guerrillas.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
85.  Overall, the South Vietnamese army soldiers were better trained and more disciplined than the Communist soldiers of the North Vietnamese army.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
86.  North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh received help from the Soviet Union and China, especially after United States troops entered South Vietnam in 1965.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
87.  After President Johnson's campaign of optimism and General Westmoreland claimed that "the end of the war was in view", a credibility gap arose with the Tet Offensive of 1968.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
88.  After devastating defeats to the Viet Cong, in the Tet offensive of 1968, the Vietnam War was increasingly fought by the North Vietnamese army.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
89.  In the videos, the three objectives of the United States bombing campaign were: 1. attrition of the enemy; 2. reducing the infiltration into South Vietnam; 3. to bring Hanoi to the bargaining table.  Congress came to the conclusion that none of these objectives had been accomplished and therefore increased the pressure on President Johnson to get out of the war.
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
90.  After Tet in 1968, peace talks between the two sides began in the United States began to withdraw its troops, but, fighting continued for the next 10 years.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
91.  President Nixon's 1969 expanded B-52 bombing campaign into Cambodia had a secondary, positive effect.  It was largely responsible for defeating the Khmer Rouge and ridding Cambodia of this communist threat.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
92.  In 1973, Congress discovered that President Nixon had been secretly bombing in Cambodia since 1969.  It was this fact, not Watergate, that led to the first call for his impeachment.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
93.  It is accurate to say that Lyndon Johnson was responsible for the Americanization of the war and Richard Nixon was responsible for the Vietnamization of the war.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
94.  Some of the claims against the televised, anti-war demonstrations at home was that these demonstrations prolonged the war, encouraged the Communists, and cost lives on both sides.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
95.  Nixon's silent majority, which elected him in 1968, quickly turned against him and protested United States involvement in the war.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
96.  Once President Johnson stopped the United States bombing campaign and peace talks began, reaching the final peace treaty was a rapid accomplishment, free of any setbacks.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B
97.  It is clear that the North Vietnamese Communists watched American television.  In fact, in 1969, they sent congratulations to the participants of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and their nationwide protest.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
98.  The number of protesters to the Vietnam War from 1968-1975 was always a minority of the American population.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
99.  Although the United States lost over 58,000 soldiers, the Vietnamese suffered 1.5 million killed and over 3 million wounded during the conflict.  
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: A
100.  With the fall of Saigon in 1975, peace finally returned to Indochina. 
A. True
B. False
C.
D.
Answer: B