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.{TRUE}

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.{FALSE}

After the United States government changed the draft to the lottery system, the recruitment of soldiers was finally equitable.{FALSE}

Although the United States lost over 58,000 soldiers, the Vietnamese suffered 1.5 million killed and over 3 million wounded during the conflict.{TRUE}

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.{TRUE}

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.{FALSE}

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.{TRUE}

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.{TRUE}

North Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh received help from the Soviet Union and China, especially after United States troops entered South Vietnam in 1965.{TRUE}

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.{FALSE}

Vietnam veterans were not opposed to the war until after the discovery of physical effects such as cancer from Agent Orange.{FALSE}

With the fall of Saigon in 1975, peace finally returned to Indochina.{FALSE}

According to the North Vietnamese leadership, Everett Alvarez was the first American pilot taken prisoner in Vietnam.  He remained a POW in captivity for 9 years.{TRUE}

In the video, communist leaders accused Diem of being a brutal tyrant who killed revolutionary leaders in the South, but thousands of innocent people were arrested, and many -- possibly between three and 15,000 -- were executed by Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnamese communists during the peasant land redistribution program begun after the Geneva Conference of 1954.{TRUE}

More bombs were dropped on North Vietnamese targets than on South Vietnamese targets by the United States during the entire war.{FALSE}

The denials by the North Vietnamese leadership that their army was fighting in the South were false.  But at least they were abiding by the requirements set for in the Geneva Accords of 1954.{FALSE}

The Vietcong used fear and insecurity to control the Vietnamese peasant population.  According to the video, they would seize the hamlet chief and then they would cut his head off or shoot him in front of the villagers.  They mined the roads so government civil servants, teachers,  and agricultural advisors would not venture into the countryside.  But video evidence also showed South Vietnamese government officials resorting to fear with the torturing of suspected Vietcong members by electrical shocks and hanging.{TRUE}