President Dwight Eisenhower's Vietnam policy    
 committed thousands of troops to aid the Diem government.   
 left the South Vietnamese government to fend largely for itself.   
 sanctioned the signing of the Geneva accord that ended French control there.   
 * committed advisors and economic aid to South Vietnam.   
    

The Tonkin Gulf resolution    
 * gave the president the authority to use military force in Vietnam.      
 called on the United Nations to seek a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam war.   
 denounced military aggression by the Soviet Union in Vietnam.      
 delayed a response to the Tonkin incident until completion of an investigation into its causes.   
    

By 1965 the United States had committed another 150,000 troops to defeat the Viet Cong because    
 Viet Cong activity in the South had escalated dramatically.   
 * the French withdrew all military and economic assistance.   
 Chinese and Soviet troop levels there had risen.   
 political and military leadership was weak in South Vietnam.   
    

Johnson's popularity began to wane after 1966 because    
 American military leaders expressed serious disagreement among themselves over the conduct of the war.      
 * media coverage raised questions about Johnson's credibility.   
 reports surfaced that Cambodia and Laos had formally allied themselves with North Vietnam.   
 World War II and Korean war veterans publicly criticized U.S. use of chemical warfare.   
    

The National Liberation Front was    
 * organized by the Vietminh.   
 able to confine its military efforts to one section of Vietnam.   
 an arm of the Buddhists in Vietnam.   
 thoroughly divorced from the Viet Cong.   
 interested in promoting Roman Catholicism in Vietnam.   

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was an American response to    
 * attacks of torpedo boats on American destroyers.   
 a Vietminh thrust into Saigon.   
 shelling of offshore islands under South Vietnamese control.   
 a North Vietnamese decision to arm its allies in the South.   
 Chinese intervention in the Vietnam War.   

The greatest increase in the number of American troops in Vietnam came during the administration of    
 Dwight Eisenhower   
 John Kennedy   
 * Lyndon Johnson   
 Richard Nixon.   
    

By 1967 President Johnson responded to mounting inflation at home by    
 putting even more money into circulation.   
 raising interest rates.   
 escalating the war in Vietnam.   
 * raising taxes.   
 declining to run for reelection.   

What was NOT a provision of or associated with the Geneva Agreements?    
 Vietnam was divided into North and South at the 38th Parallel   
 The agreement was signed after the French defeat at Dienbienphu   
 * Ho Chi Minh was to lead Communist North Vietnam   
 An anti-Communist government was established in South Vietnam   
 Cambodia and Laos were to be considered and treated as neutrals   

Who said, "We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."?    
 Henri Navarre   
 Barry Goldwater   
 John Kennedy   
 * Lyndon Johnson   
 Robert McNamara   

Why did Lyndon B. Johnson continue the U.S. escalation of the war?    
 * The US commitment as an ally was being tested	   
 His Great Society had been completed and he focused on foreign affairs   
 He was a racist   
 Peace talks with Ho Chi Minh failed   
 aerial bombardment had proven so effective   

What city was designated as the capitol of South Vietnam after the Geneva  Agreements?    
 Hanoi   
 Dienbienphu   
 Inchon   
 * Saigon   
 Pyongyang   

The general in command of American forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968 was    
 Douglas McArthur   
 Maxwell Taylor   
 General Khan   
 General Luan   
 * William Westmoreland   

American military objectives were, at best, difficult to achieve because    
 the enemy did not fight in a conventional way   
 the government of South Vietnam was corrupt   
 the U.S. had very little allied support   
 lack of public support at home   
 * all of the above   

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave    
 Congress the authority to send troops to Vietnam   
 Military aid to Ho Chi Minh   
 * The president  complete authority to wage war on North Vietnam   
 The Navy authority to mine the Gulf of Tonkin   
 none of the above   

Approximately how many soldiers were stationed in Vietnam at the height of the conflict in 1967-68?    
 2.5 million   
 17,000   
 * 500,000   
 250,000   
 none of the above   

"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the code name for    
 the landing of the first combat troops in Vietnam   
 * American bombing raids on North Vietnam   
 the airlift of food to the blockaded city of West Berlin   
 the plan to assassinate South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem   
 the black activist movements in the South, ie. boycotts, sit-ins, voter registration drives   

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution    
 advocated the use of nuclear weapons against North Vietnam if that government did not accede to American demands   
 * authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against American forces and to prevent further aggression in Vietnam   
 condemned U.S. involvement in Vietnam and demanded that American troops be withdrawn immediately   
 constituted a congressional explanation to the American people of the Johnson administration's immediate and long-term foreign policy goals in Southeast Asia   
 none of the above   

Belief in the Domino Theory would most likely lead a person to support    
 federal intervention in the South to protect freedom riders and other civil-rights activists   
 a test-ban treaty with the Soviets against further atmospheric and ocean firing of nuclear weapons   
 * American intervention in the war in Vietnam to prevent a Vietcong victory   
 appointment of more conservative justices to the Supreme Court to prevent it from falling completely under the influence of Warren liberals   
 U.S. withdrawal from IndoChina due to lack of vital interests   

Which of the following was NOT one of the names used by or given to the leader of North Vietnam?    
 "Uncle Ho"   
 Nguyen That Than   
 Nguyen Ai Quoc   
 Ho Chi Minh   
 * All are correct   

Which "dove" senator from Oregon eventually became a leader of the antiwar sentiment in Congress?    
 Robert McNamara   
 * Wayne Morse   
 Harry Truman   
 Dean Rusk   
 John Foster Dulles   

With what economic/industrial project did LBJ attempt to "bribe" Ho Chi Minh to the bargaining table prior to 1968?    
 Operation Rolling Thunder   
 Operation Junction City   
 * Mekong Delta River Project   
 Operation Cedar Falls   
 Building an airfield at Danang   

The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), responsible for much of the secret military operations in Vietnam during the war, was the precursor to the present day Central Intelligence Agency or C.I.A.    
 * True   
 False   
    
    
    

The French mission to bring western civilization and advances to the people of the French colony of Vietnam was known as la mission civilisatrice and was largely successful in helping the poorer working class people of that region.    
 True   
 * False   
    
    
    

To many Vietnamese people, the Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh were very much like other nationalists, such as the Trung Sisters, trying to gain independence for their tiny embattled country.    
 * True   
 False   
    
    
    

Tran Le Xuan, also known as Madame Nhu, sister in law to South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, was clearly upset that her husband and brother in law were killed by a military coup in 1963, but was saddened and remorseful over their corrupt political leadership and brutal use of police and military force against helpless Buddhist monks.    
 True   
 * False   
    
    
    

As head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. William Fulbright was constantly arguing with dove politician Maxwell Taylor over U.S. military policy in Vietnam.    
 True   
 * False   
    
    
    

Refer to the map below for the next five questions. Who was the communist leader of country #1 during the 1950's and 1960's?    
 * Mao Tse Tung   
 Ho Chi Minh   
 Ngo Dinh Diem   
 Chiang Kai Shek   
 Bao Dai   

What is #9 on the map?    
 The location of the Tet Offensive   
 The farthest south that the Vietcong invaded   
 * The 17th parallel, the line dividing the Vietnam from the Geneva Agreements of 1954   
 The location of the borders of Cambodia and Laos   
 None of the above   

A North Vietnamese attack on an American ship in this location prompted the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by the U.S. Congress in 1964, thus giving President Lyndon Johnson the authority to escalate and wage war in Vietnam.    
 * 6   
 7   
 8   
 5   
    

Which country was led by the nationalist/communist Ho Chi Minh after the 1954 Geneva Accords?    
 1   
 * 2   
 3   
 4   
 5   

The Ho Chi Minh Trail was used by the NVA to bring supplies to South Vietnam during the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.  Unfortunately, the trail ran mainly within the borders of Laos and the war escalated to include part of that country even though it was officially neutral during the conflict.  Where is Laos?    
 1   
 2   
 * 3   
 4   
 5   

Refer to the map below for the next seven questions. Vietnam was artificially divided into regions by the French during its colonial period.  Which section was known as Annam, therefore making all Vietnamese people known to Europeans as Annamites or Annamese?    
 4   
 * 5   
 6   
    
    

The ancient city of Hue was an important cultural center of Vietnam and served as the capitol of the French Vietnamese provice of Annam.  Where is Hue?    
 7   
 2   
 3   
 * 8   
    

Which was the capital city of the NVA and Ho Chi Minh?    
 7   
 * 2   
 3   
 8   
    

Section #6 on the map above was know as the "rice bowl" of Vietnam because it was the richest and most fertile region (thus delivering plentiful agricultural harvests).  During the French colonial period it was known as    
 Tonkin   
 Pleiku   
 * Cochinchina   
 Annam   
 Mekong Delta   

Although students have yet to see the corresponding videos or read the appropriate chapters in the textbook for this telecourse, this city fell to the communists in 1975, thus "ending" the war in Vietnam as far at the United States was concerned.    
 7   
 2   
 * 3   
 8   
    

Where is Dienbienphu, the location of the French defeat in 1954 at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army and its communist allies and the official end of French rule in Vietnam?    
 * 7   
 2   
 3   
 8   
    

The province of Tonkin was one of the French provinces in Vietnam and suffered a terrible famine during the mid 1940's.  Which section is Tonkin?    
 * 4   
 5   
 6   
    
    

Question from Episode 1 - Roots of War  The traditional enemy of the Vietnamese people was    
 * China   
 Cambodia   
 Kampuchea   
 Japan   
 None of the above.   

Question from Episode 1 - Roots of War  Bao Dai was    
 * the emperor of Vietnam during the French and Japanese occupations.   
 the name of the CIA assassination squads   
 the name of the Japanese emperor during W.W.II.   
 none of the above.   
    

Question from Episode 1 - Roots of War  Indochina under French rule    
 experienced the longest period of peace in its history.   
 imported more rubber than at any other time previously.   
 became much more Buddhist as a reaction against the westerners.   
 * was compelled to export rice even when the Indochinese were starving.   
 All of the above.   

Question from Episode 1 - Roots of War  Ho Chi Minh    
 A) tried in vain to plead his country's cause before the Versailles Peace Conference.   
 B) was the first Vietnamese to join the Communist Party.   
 C) worked for the French delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference.   
 * both A and B.   
 both B and C.   

Question from Episode 2 - The First Vietnam War  The United States instructed its diplomats at the Geneva Convention of 1954 to    
 A) keep the French from selling out the South Vietnamese government.   
 B) press hard for democratic elections to decide the fate of South Vietnam.   
 * C) watch, but not talk or agree to anything.   
 D) protect the interests of the South Vietnamese government at all costs. E.Both B and D.  
    

Question from Episode 2 - The First Vietnam War  The first country to officially recognize Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam was    
 North Korea in 1949.   
 The Soviet Union in 1948.   
 The United States after the surrender of the Japanese in W.W.II.   
 The government of South Vietnam.   
 * The People's Republic of China in 1950.   

Question from Episode 2 - The First Vietnam War  The first country to give substantial military aid to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was    
 France   
 Japan   
 North Korea   
 China   
 * The Soviet Union.   

Question from Episode 2 - The First Vietnam War  When it became apparent that the French may lose their hold on Dienbienphu    
 the French military stopped sending any more reinforcements or supplies.   
 the United States considered the use of tactical nuclear weapons.   
 the Chinese advised the Vietnamese to prolong the struggle until the following year.   
 American troops in French uniforms parachuted into the valley to help the French.   
 * all of the above.   

Question from Episode 3 - America's Mandarin  The reason(s) many Vietnamese moved from the north to the south after the partition of Vietnam was    
 because Ngo Dinh Diem was a Catholic.   
 because the United States mounted an extensive propaganda effort in the north.   
 because Catholics in the north were fearful of Communist reprisals.   
 * all of the above.   
 none of the above.   

Question from Episode 3 - America's Mandarin  The two biggest opponents of the Geneva Conference provisions for elections to be held in Vietnam    
 * were the United States and the government of South Vietnam.   
 were the Soviet Union and China.   
 were the original signers of the Geneva accords.   
 were North and South Korea.   
 none of the above.   

Question from Episode 3 - America's Mandarin  When it became clear to the Kennedy administration that Diem's government was losing control of South Vietnam    
 * the U.S. government gave the green light to South Vietnamese generals for a coup against Diem.   
 Kennedy ordered more American troops into the country to prevent a coup.   
 the U.S. government ordered the Christmas bombing of Vietnam.   
 all of the above.   
 none of the above.   

Question from Episode 3 - America's Mandarin  Perhaps the most significant reason for the failure of Diem's 1963 anti-Buddhist crusade was the fact that    
 his brother was a Buddhist Monk and supported the opposition.   
 Catholic students were failing to register for the draft.   
 most of the members of the Viet Cong were Buddhists.   
 the Buddhists were getting their orders from Communist China.   
 * most South Vietnamese soldiers were Buddhists.   

Question from Episode 4 - LBJ Goes To War  One of President Johnson's greatest concerns in 1964 and 1965 was    
 the buildup of Soviet troops on the Laotian border with Vietnam.   
 * the instability of the South Vietnamese government.   
 the growing anti-war movement among U.S. servicemen overseas.   
 the lack of any congressional support for his military agenda in Vietnam.   
 all of the above are incorrect.   

Question from Episode 4 - LBJ Goes To War  In 1965, President Johnson offered a deal with Ho Chi Minh    
 * to develop the Mekong Delta if Ho would abandon his political goals for South Vietnam.   
 to hold elections between Ho and Diem for president of a united Vietnam.   
 for full diplomatic recognition of DRV in exchange for a halt to the bombing of the North.   
 to exchange thousands of American POWs for thousands of NVA POWs.   
 all of the above are correct.   

Question from Episode 4 - LBJ Goes To War  The events that comprise the Gulf of Tonkin incidents resulted in    
 the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.   
 a later analysis that showed that tbe 2nd Gulf of Tonkin Incident was fabricated.   
 the U.S. Congress giving the President the power to wage war without a declaration of war.   
 * all of the above.   
 none of the above.   

Question from Episode 5 - America Takes Charge  "Indian Country" was a term used by    
 U.S. forces to indicate land controlled by troops from India.   
 * U.S. forces to indicate land in South Vietnam controlled by the Viet Cong or NVA.   
 U.S. forces to indicate land that had just recently changed hands.   
 ARVN to indicate land controlled by the United States.   
 The CIA to indicate unfriendly cities near the DMZ.   

Question from Episode 5 - America Takes Charge  As U.S. bombing of North Vietnam increased    
 * so did the amount of supplies going from North to South.   
 the will of the people in the North began to crumble.   
 the people of North Vietnam became bitter and angry with their political leaders.   
 North Vietnamese planes increased their bombing of South Vietnamese airfields.   
 all of the above are true statements.   

Question from Episode 5 - America Takes Charge  According to Pentagon strategists, the bombing of North Vietnam served two purposes,    
 to kill the North Vietnamese, and to increase the morale of the troops back home.   
 to destroy the lines of communication with the South, and to train ARVN pilots.   
 to apply pressure on the North, and to discourage the Chinese from sending more troops.   
 to destroy the lines of communication with the South, and to scare the Russians.   
 * to cause pain in the North and to cut off their supplies from going to the enemy in the South.   

Question from Episode 6 - America's Enemy  The DRV did not provide direct military aid to their allies in South Vietnam until    
 after the success of the Tet Offensive.   
 after the so-called "Secret Bombing of Cambodia".   
 after the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident.   
 * after the time stipulated by the Geneva Accords for countrywide general elections on unification   
 after the death of Diem and his brother.   

Question from Episode 6 - America's Enemy  In 1963, Diem was killed in a    
 * coup conducted by his own officers, and with consent of the United States government.   
 coup conducted by his own officers, against the orders of the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam.   
 collision involving the Chief of U.S. Operations in Vietnam.   
 coup which was planned and financed by the North Vietnamese Army.   
 hunting accident in the countryside outside of Saigon.   

Question from Episode 6 - America's Enemy  The Ho Chi Minh Trail was    
 never a vital or important communication link between North and South Vietnam.   
 the common term for Highway One which ran from Hue to Hanoi.   
 * kept open through the efforts of large numbers of women, some drafted for the purpose.   
 shut down for good after the Tet Offensive.   
 the main link between Saigon and Thailand.   

Question from Episode 6 - America's Enemy  "Alvarez, Alvarez, Son-of-a-bitch, Son-of-a-bitch" was a    
 * cheer that greeted Officer Alvarez on a march of POWs through the streets of Hanoi.   
 secret greeting among U.S. POWs being held in the "Hanoi Hilton".   
 name given to the most cruel prison guard in the Hanoi prison .   
 term used to describe the treatment of POWs in the prison camp near Saigon.   
 code word for attempted escape by a POW.   

Question from Episode 7 - Tet 1968 The Tet Offensive was    
 the largest ARVN offensive across the DMZ since Dien Bien Phu.   
 * the largest Viet Cong offensive of the war.   
 a total military success for the NVA.   
 overrated, since there was always an ARVN offensive during the Chinese New Year.   
 none of the above.   

Question from Episode 7 - Tet 1968 The Tet Offensive    
 was not a total surprise to U.S. intelligence since they had monitored increased VC activity.   
 resulted in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.   
 resulted in an attack on Westmoreland's headquarters near Saigon.   
 * all of the above are correct.   
 none of the above are correct.   

Question from Episode 7 - Tet 1968 One of the major goals of the Tet Offensive was    
 the capture of the ancient capital city of Hue.   
 to relieve ARVN units that wanted time off during the holiday season to be with relatives.   
 to show solidarity with the Chinese on the occasion of their important holiday.   
 to embarrass the leaders of North Vietnam into negotiating with the Americans in Paris.   
 * none of the above are correct.