Statistics for HST195 - Vietnam War Final Exam

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Question #10 Statistics: Question from Episode 8 - Vietnamizing the War 1968-1973 The United States dropped Offered 22 times Correct 4 times or 18% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 4 as many bombs on North Vietnam as they did on South Vietnam.    18% 5 as many bombs on South Vietnam as they did on Russia in W.W.II.    23% 1 as many bombs on South Vietnam as they did on Italy in W.W.I.    5% 4 many more bombs on North Vietnam than on South Vietnam.    18% 8 many more bombs on South Vietnam than they did on North Vietnam.    36%

Question #20 Statistics: Question from Episode 8 - Vietnamizing the War 1968-1973 U.S. Congressional reports in the early 1970s indicated that drugs in South Vietnam were Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 3 being supplied to the U.S. government by the DRV.    14% 0 more expensive than in the United States.    0% 0 less readily available after the great troop buildup of the 1960s.    0% 19 easier to obtain than cigarettes and chewing gum.    86% 0 not as potent as the drugs available in most U.S. cities.    0%

Question #30 Statistics: Question from Episode 8 - Vietnamizing the War 1968-1973 As the Vietnam War dragged on into the 1970s, Offered 22 times Correct 13 times or 59% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 13 Racial polarization among U.S. forces increased to levels higher than back in the States.    59% 1 Racial polarization among U.S. forces became more rare as the war wound down.    5% 1 Racial polarization among U.S. forces improved because of the USO shows with Bob Hope.    5% 7 Racial polarization among U.S. forces was less than that in the States.    32% 0 Racial polarization among U.S. forces was non-existent.    0%

Question #40 Statistics: Question from Episode 9 - Cambodia & Laos The Geneva Accords of 1954 guaranteed Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 19 the neutrality of Laos and Cambodia.    86% 0 the neutrality of Cambodia, but not of Laos.    0% 0 elections in Laos but not in Vietnam.    0% 0 elections in North Vietnam but not in South Vietnam.    0% 3 none of the above.    14%

Question #50 Statistics: Question from Episode 9 - Cambodia & Laos As early as 1961-62 the United States Government was Offered 22 times Correct 18 times or 81% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 training Japanese troops to infiltrate the Pathet Lao.    0% 18 'secretly' arming and training Laotian forces to fight the pro-communist Pathet Lao.    82% 1 shipping massive military hardware to the Pathet Lao.    5% 0 portraying President Johnson as a seeker of peace.    0% 3 none of the above.    14%

Question #60 Statistics: Question from Episode 9 - Cambodia & Laos In March of 1964, five months before the first bombing raids on North Vietnam, Offered 22 times Correct 11 times or 50% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 4 the North Vietnamese 'secretly' bombed Cambodia.    18% 0 the Laotian Air Force 'secretly' bombed Saigon.    0% 0 the Cambodian head of state 'secretly' parachuted into North Vietnam.    0% 11 the United States began bombing Laos 'secretly'.    50% 7 none of the above.    32%

Question #70 Statistics: Question from Episode 9 - Cambodia & Laos When President Nixon decided to 'Secretly' bomb Cambodia, he Offered 22 times Correct 12 times or 54% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 12 didn't even inform the Cambodian Government.    55% 0 personally got in touch with the Cambodian government and apologized.    0% 0 he was totally unaware that Cambodia was a neutral country modeled after the U.S.    0% 1 consulted with Billy Graham who gave the 'green light'.    5% 9 kept it a secret from his whole cabinet, especially Kissinger.    41%

Question #80 Statistics: Question from Episode 10 - Peace is at Hand 1968-1973 By the time of the Tet Offensive, the U.S. had already Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 dropped more tons of bombs on Vietnam as it had on its enemies in W.W.II.    91% 0 indicated to the negotiators in Paris their willingness to let North Vietnam win.    0% 1 told Kissinger to speed up the peace process in Paris for the upcoming elections.    5% 1 invaded Cambodia in search of the headquarters of the Viet Cong.    5% 0 none of the above.    0%

Question #90 Statistics: Question from Episode 10 - Peace is at Hand 1968-1973 President Nixon's policy of 'Vietnamization' Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 was the real meat of his 'secret plan to end the war'.    0% 1 was just another name for the same policy implemented by President Johnson.    5% 2 was not put into effect until the last months of the war and was therefore 'too little too late'.    9% 19 was designed to systematically turn the burden of the war over to the South Vietnamese government.    86% 0 none of the above.    0%

Question #100 Statistics: Question from Episode 10 - Peace is at Hand 1968-1973 The very year Nixon first took office Offered 22 times Correct 18 times or 81% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 18 Henry Kissinger began secret meetings with communist representatives from Hanoi.    82% 1 Henry Kissinger resigned from his political office.    5% 3 President Diem was assassinated in Saigon.    14% 0 Henry Kissinger warned him that Watergate would impede his ambitions.    0% 0 Henry Kissinger confessed to having an affair with Pat Nixon    0%

Question #110 Statistics: Question from Episode 10 - Peace is at Hand 1968-1973 Ironically, the text of the draft treaty agreed to by the U.S. and the DRV in Paris Offered 22 times Correct 15 times or 68% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 2 (A) was never translated into English.    9% 3 (B) contained a number of provisions which were totally unknown to the South Vietnamese government.    14% 0 (C) was the same as the 1954 Geneva Accords.    0% 2 (D) was delivered to the South Vietnamese government in English and not in Vietnamese.    9% 15 both B and D.    68%

Question #120 Statistics: Question from Episode 11 - Homefront USA Martin Luther King, Jr. Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 was originally a big supporter of the war, but then his son was killed.    0% 0 was a decorated Vietnam veteran, but never told people about it.    0% 19 spoke against the war, suggesting the failure of the 'Great Society' was caused in part by funding the war effort.    86% 3 was called to the White House by Nixon, but refused to come.    14% 0 received a standing ovation from the troops when he went to Vietnam on a USO tour in 1964.    0%

Question #130 Statistics: Question from Episode 11 - Homefront USA 1968 was a pivotal year in U.S. political history because in that year Offered 22 times Correct 18 times or 81% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 L.B.J. declined to run again for President.    5% 2 Robert Kennedy was killed.    9% 0 Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed.    0% 1 the Viet Cong launched their major Tet Offensive.    5% 18 all of the above.    82%

Question #140 Statistics: Question from Episode 11 - Homefront USA In April of 1971 Vietnam Veterans organized a large demonstration in Washington in which Offered 22 times Correct 22 times or 100% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 they pleaded with President Nixon to arm them so that they could go to North Vietnam and bring back the POWs.    0% 22 decorated veterans threw there medals away on the steps of the Capitol.    100% 0 Agent Orange was sprayed by White House Security guards onto the crowd below.    0% 0 they volunteered to go back as a unit and personally capture Ho Chi Minh.    0% 0 they produced a letter of support for their actions from Ho Chi Minh.    0%

Question #150 Statistics: Question from Episode 12 - The End of the Tunnel 1973-1975 Most members of the South Vietnamese Government saw the Paris Peace Agreement as Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 a sellout of their country by the Americans.    95% 0 too good to be true and they were right.    0% 0 much too restrictive on the Communist forces which made it difficult to enforce.    0% 0 giving too much territory away to the Cambodians and Laotians who were their traditional enemies.    0% 1 none of the above.    5%

Question #160 Statistics: Question from Episode 12 - The End of the Tunnel 1973-1975 The big event in Nixon's life that kept him from keeping his agreements with Thieu was Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 Thieu's assassination.    0% 0 that he lost the election to Ford and had to leave the White House.    0% 0 The Moon Landing in July of 1969 which cost so much it made it difficult to fund other projects.    0% 21 Watergate.    95% 1 none of the above.    5%

Question #170 Statistics: Question from Episode 12 - The End of the Tunnel 1973-1975 Shortly after Congress cut off further aid to South Vietnam Offered 22 times Correct 22 times or 100% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 22 North Vietnam began sending whole divisions across the border into South Vietnam.    100% 0 South Vietnam began to accept aid from China and the Soviet Union.    0% 0 Ho Chi Minh was able to say 'Victory is at hand'.    0% 0 Kissinger had to work fast in Paris before the North Vietnamese delegates found out.    0% 0 none of the above.    0%

Question #180 Statistics: Question from Episode 12 - The End of the Tunnel 1973-1975 In early 1975, when the North Vietnamese began their push into South Vietnam Offered 22 times Correct 15 times or 68% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 15 they estimated it would take about two years to achieve victory, but it only took 55 days.    68% 2 they immediately became bogged down in a relentless struggle for Danang.    9% 2 they were surprised at the tenacity of the South Vietnamese Army.    9% 2 they had to move slowly because it was the rainy season.    9% 1 they knew that the rainy season would speed them up, but slow down the enemy.    5%

Question #190 Statistics: Question from Episode 13 - Legacies If you count from 1965, when the first American ground combat units arrived Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 the Vietnam War was the longest war in American history.    95% 1 the Vietnam War was almost as long as the Civil War    5% 0 the Vietnam War was not as long as W.W.II    0% 0 none of the above.    0%

Question #200 Statistics: Question from Episode 13 - Legacies When considering the MIA question, it would be accurate to state that Offered 22 times Correct 11 times or 50% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 many more Vietnam War veterans ended up as MIAs than in Korea.    0% 2 many more Vietnam War veterans ended up as MIAs than in World War Two.    9% 9 many more Vietnam War veterans ended up as MIAs than in Korea & World War Two together.    41% 11 the percentage of MIAs was much lower in Vietnam than in Korea and World War Two.    50% 0 none of the above.    0%

Question #210 Statistics: Question from Episode 13 - Legacies After the North Vietnamese had unified the country in 1975 Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 Nixon sent four and three-quarter billion dollars to Hanoi as promised.    0% 0 President Nixon pardoned draft dodgers and deserters.    0% 19 Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.    86% 2 Nixon had to resign in disgrace from the Presidency.    9% 1 none of the above.    5%

Question #220 Statistics: Question from Episode 13 - Legacies After the North Vietnamese had unified the country in 1975 Offered 22 times Correct 12 times or 54% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 12 around one million people in the south had to relocate to 'new economic zones.'    55% 1 millions of people were killed in a 'blood bath of revenge.'    5% 2 the entire population of South Vietnam was sent to re-education camps for 12 months.    9% 2 Hanoi was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.    9% 5 none of the above.    23%

Question #230 Statistics: Even though the air war over Southeast Asia was regarded as 'limited', the US dropped Offered 22 times Correct 18 times or 81% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 almost as many tons of munitions on Southeast Asia as it did on Japan in W.W.II.    5% 1 almost as many tons of munitions on Southeast Asia as it did on Germany in W.W.II.    5% 18 many more tons of munitions on Southeast Asia than it did on all W.W.II enemy targets.    82% 2 almost as many tons of munitions on Southeast Asia as we did on all our W.W.II enemies.    9% 0 much more tonnage of propaganda leaflets on South Vietnam than bombs.    0%

Question #240 Statistics: What was the price of a room at the Hanoi Hilton? Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 To American POWs it was free.    91% 1 It was impossible to get a room there unless you were a communist official.    5% 0 Usually a box of C-Rations would get you in.    0% 0 The Hanoi Hilton was not used during the war.    0% 1 None of the above are correct.    5%

Question #250 Statistics: The Viet Cong were Offered 22 times Correct 8 times or 36% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 14 North Vietnamese guerrillas who attacked South Vietnam    64% 0 North Vietnamese army regulars who attacked South Vietnam    0% 8 South Vietnamese guerrillas who attacked their own government    36% 0 South Vietnamese army regulars who staged a coup against their own government    0%

Question #260 Statistics: Since the fall of Vietnam in 1975, historians have offered all of the following explanations for U.S. involvement there EXCEPT Offered 22 times Correct 5 times or 22% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 the U.S. was trying to save Vietnam from the evils of communism    0% 8 the U.S. was selflessly attempting to save its friends from foreign aggression    36% 5 the U.S. wanted to preserve its own economic interests by keeping Vietnamese natural resources available to American industries    23% 9 the U.S. wanted to impose its own political and economic system on the Vietnamese    41%

Question #270 Statistics: Escalation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s included all of the following steps EXCEPT Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 American soldiers began playing an active combat role    0% 0 American planes began bombing targets in North Vietnam    0% 1 American forces began increasing rapidly in number    5% 21 American officials began governing the country in place of the Vietnamese    95%

Question #280 Statistics: The greatest increase in the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam came during the administration of Offered 22 times Correct 22 times or 100% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 0 Dwight Eisenhower    0% 0 John Kennedy    0% 22 Lyndon Johnson    100% 0 Richard Nixon.    0%

Question #290 Statistics: One of the primary reasons that the United States could not fully win the Vietnam War was Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 they employed conventional warfare techniques in an unconventional war    95% 1 American military forces were inexperienced and understaffed    5% 0 Congress would not allocate sufficient funds to finance the war    0% 0 American forces won few of the major battles    0%

Question #300 Statistics: The American policy of attrition in Vietnam failed because Offered 22 times Correct 15 times or 68% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 5 (A) North Vietnam was able to commit more soldiers and resources to the war than the United States had expected.    23% 0 (B) the United States relied too heavily on bombing North Vietnam.    0% 15 both a and b    68% 2 neither a nor b    9%

Question #310 Statistics: Who among the following had broken with the pro-war consensus on Vietnam by 1968? Offered 22 times Correct 12 times or 54% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 Harry McPherson    5% 2 Robert Kennedy    9% 0 Eugene McCarthy    0% 7 Clark Clifford    32% 12 all of the above    55%

Question #320 Statistics: Who among the following did NOT publicly break with President Johnson on the Vietnam War at some point before the 1968 Democratic National Convention? Offered 22 times Correct 12 times or 54% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 Mike Mansfield    5% 1 Robert Kennedy    5% 12 Hubert Humphrey    55% 3 Eugene McCarthy    14% 5 Wayne Morse    23%

Question #330 Statistics: In 1970, to deliver the 'knock-out blow' to the North Vietnamese, Richard Nixon Offered 22 times Correct 10 times or 45% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 4 launched his Vietnamization plan.    18% 10 ordered the bombing and invasion of Cambodia.    45% 0 announced a cease-fire in Laos and Cambodia.    0% 8 launched Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi.    36%

Question #340 Statistics: Matching Look at the person on the right. Find the number of his definition on the left. Choose that number from the pop up box that appears to the right of the person. (Each of the 5 terms on the right has a correct matching definition on the left) Offered 22 times Correct 14 times or 63% Partially correct 8 times or 36% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 15 LBJ’s Secretary of State who reviewed General Westmoreland’s request for more troops and decided against it due to lack of official and public support.::Clark Clifford    68% 18 This man was responsible for leaking to the press the Pentagon Papers, which illustrated the troubling and sometimes shocking U.S. conduct of the war.::Daniel Ellsberg    82% 18 Challenged the incumbent LBJ for the nomination of the Democratic Party on an antiwar platform, receiving much support from student groups.::Eugene McCarthy    82% 22 African American Civil Rights leader who openly opposed LBJ’s Vietnam policy and was later assassinated in 1968.::Martin Luther King Jr.    100% 21 Antiwar contender for the 1968 Democratic Party nominee before he was assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California primary.::Robert Kennedy    95%

Question #350 Statistics: Matching Look at the term on the right. Find the number of its definition on the left. Choose that number from the pop up box that appears to the right of the term. (Each of the 5 terms on the right has a correct matching definition on the left) Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 2 times or 9% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 22 This was a defoliant used by the United States during the war which was later found to be linked with cancer in American veterans.::Agent Orange    100% 22 This type of bomb, used by the United States, had the sole purpose of starting fires and burning what was ever and its path.::napalm    100% 20 This was the name of a plan for pacification of South Vietnam which was begun by the United States military but was ultimately unsuccessful.::Phoenix Program    91% 20 This was a plan to replace departing United States soldiers with increased military supplies and economic help to the government of South Vietnam.::Operation Enhance +    91% 22 This was the name given to a location where American prisoners of war were held and tortured.::Hanoi Hilton    100%

Question #360 Statistics: Matching Look at the person on the right. Find the number of his definition on the left. Choose that number from the pop up box that appears to the right of the person. (Each of the 5 terms on the right has a correct matching definition on the left) Offered 22 times Correct 13 times or 59% Partially correct 9 times or 40% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 22 Secretary of State for Richard Nixon who carried on secret peace talks and later the official Paris Peace Talks with the leaders of North Vietnam.::Henry Kissenger    100% 15 Pro-war Democrat who accepted his party’s nomination at the troubled Chicago Convention and ran against Nixon in the closely contested 1968 election.::Hubert Humphrey    68% 16 Nixon’s Vice President (before he resigned amidst scandal) who accused the American Press for giving a "voice" to protesters and "comfort" to the enemy.::Spiro Agnew    73% 19 Vietnam veteran who openly opposed the war effort and encouraged others to join him in ending America’s involvement in that unjustifiable war.::John Kerry    86% 17 Senator largely responsible for running the hearings against President Nixon after the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon’s premature resignation.::Sam Ervin    77%

Question #370 Statistics: Matching Look at the acronym on the right. Find the number of its definition on the left. Choose that number from the pop up box that appears to the right of the acronym. (Each of the 5 terms on the right has a correct matching definition on the left) Offered 22 times Correct 17 times or 77% Partially correct 5 times or 22% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 22 This is the name for the army of South Vietnam which fought along side of American forces.::ARVN    100% 22 This is the name of the area surrounding the 17th parallel in the country of Vietnam.::DMZ    100% 19 This is the name for the Cambodian army which fought the Communist Khmer Rouge.::FANK    86% 18 This is the name of one of the major student protest groups in the United States against the Vietnam War.::SDS    82% 19 This is the medical condition suffered by many United States soldiers on their return from Vietnam.::PTSD    86%

Question #380 Statistics: Matching Look at the person on the right. Find the number of his definition on the left. Choose that number from the pop up box that appears to the right of the person. (Each of the 5 terms on the right has a correct matching definition on the left) Offered 22 times Correct 13 times or 59% Partially correct 8 times or 36% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 16 He was the North Korean counterpart of Henry Kissinger during the Paris Peace talks who negotiated only after continued U.S. bombing.::Le Duc Tho    73% 16 He was the anti-communist military leader of Cambodia who replaced Sihanouk and received the support of the United States.::Lon Nol    73% 18 He was the major leader of South Vietnam during the Nixon administration who opposed but was later forced to sign the Paris Peace Agreement in 1973.::Nguyen Van Thieu    82% 19 He was the major military commander of the North Vietnamese Army, responsible for its successes from Dien Bien Phu to the eventual fall of Saigon.::Vo Nguyen Giap    86% 19 He was the popular leader of Cambodia who had the support of the peasants and tried to keep the peace. He was ousted from power while out of the country.::Norodom Sihanouk    86%

Question #390 Statistics: Refer to the map above. Phnom Penh was the capital city of this peace-loving nation until the Vietnam war spilled over its borders and pitted the Khmer Rouge against the U.S. backed government army. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #400 Statistics: Refer to the map above. The Pathet Lao was the name of the Communist Party in this country which fought the United States backed government army. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 19 times or 86% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #410 Statistics: Refer to the map above. Both Prince Sihanouk and later Richard Nixon in 1972 made overtures to this communist country during the Vietnam conflict. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 15 times or 68% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #420 Statistics: Refer to the map above. In 1969, Ho Chi Minh died while in this country in the midst of the Vietnam War. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 17 times or 77% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #430 Statistics: Refer to the map above. The ancient city of Hue was an important target of the Viet Cong during the Tet offensive. To "save" the city, it was almost completely destroyed by the United States in the longest battle following the Tet offensive. Where is Hue? (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #440 Statistics: Refer to the map above. Which city was later re-named Ho Chi Minh City after its fall in 1975? (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #450 Statistics: Refer to the map above. It was a crucial series of transportation systems for the communists during the Vietnam War. Find the Ho Chi Minh Trail. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 22 times or 100% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #460 Statistics: Refer to the map above. Like Dienbienphu in 1954, U.S. troops were surrounded at Khesanh in 1967-8. President Johnson used American air power to bomb the NVA rather than see his forces defeated. Find Khesanh. (Enter only a single number in the box) Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0%

Question #470 Statistics: In 1970, Kent State University witnessed the first killing of U.S. student protesters. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 True    95% 1 False    5%

Question #480 Statistics: President Nixon policy to replace U.S. ground troops with South Vietnamese troops was called Americanization. Offered 22 times Correct 0 times or 0% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 3 True    14% 19 False    86%

Question #490 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 True    91% 2 False    9%

Question #500 Statistics: The only way for a young American male to avoid the draft was to go to Canada. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 True    5% 21 False    95%

Question #510 Statistics: After the United States government changed the draft to the lottery system, the recruitment of soldiers was finally equitable. Offered 22 times Correct 12 times or 54% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 10 True    45% 12 False    55%

Question #520 Statistics: Vietnam veterans were not opposed to the war until after the discovery of physical effects such as cancer from Agent Orange. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 True    5% 21 False    95%

Question #530 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 True    95% 1 False    5%

Question #540 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 True    95% 1 False    5%

Question #550 Statistics: Overall, the South Vietnamese army soldiers were better trained and more disciplined than the Communist soldiers of the North Vietnamese army. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 2 True    9% 20 False    91%

Question #560 Statistics: North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh received help from the Soviet Union and China, especially after United States troops entered South Vietnam in 1965. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 True    91% 2 False    9%

Question #570 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 21 True    95% 1 False    5%

Question #580 Statistics: After devastating defeats to the Viet Cong, in the Tet offensive of 1968, the Vietnam War was increasingly fought by the North Vietnamese army. Offered 22 times Correct 18 times or 81% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 18 True    82% 4 False    18%

Question #590 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 1 times or 4% Frequency Choice Percent 20 True    91% 1 False    5%

Question #600 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 11 times or 50% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 11 True    50% 11 False    50%

Question #610 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 17 times or 77% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 5 True    23% 17 False    77%

Question #620 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 8 times or 36% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 14 True    64% 8 False    36%

Question #630 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 22 times or 100% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 22 True    100% 0 False    0%

Question #640 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 True    91% 2 False    9%

Question #650 Statistics: Nixon's silent majority, which elected him in 1968, quickly turned against him and protested United States involvement in the war. Offered 22 times Correct 8 times or 36% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 14 True    64% 8 False    36%

Question #660 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 21 times or 95% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 1 True    5% 21 False    95%

Question #670 Statistics: 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. Offered 22 times Correct 15 times or 68% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 15 True    68% 7 False    32%

Question #680 Statistics: The number of protesters to the Vietnam War from 1968-1975 was always a minority of the American population. Offered 22 times Correct 14 times or 63% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 14 True    64% 8 False    36%

Question #690 Statistics: Although the United States lost over 58,000 soldiers, the Vietnamese suffered 1.5 million killed and over 3 million wounded during the conflict. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 20 True    91% 2 False    9%

Question #700 Statistics: With the fall of Saigon in 1975, peace finally returned to Indochina. Offered 22 times Correct 20 times or 90% Partially correct 0 times or 0% Unanswered 0 times or 0% Frequency Choice Percent 2 True    9% 20 False    91%

Number of Submissions:	22
Perfect Scores:	0
Maximum Score:	84
Minimum Score:	55
Median Score:	72.5
Mean Score:	71.636
Standard Deviation:	8.2608
Mean Percentage:	80.0
Standard Deviation:	9.4061

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