Vietnam War
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Humanities
Final TEST
__ out of 50 points
I. Major Players. Match each person with his description. (15 points)
___ 1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
A. President who bombed Cambodia; wanted peace with
honor; resigned the office of president
___ 2. John F. Kennedy
B. North Vietnamese president with whom Kissinger
negotiated
___ 3. Lyndon B. Johnson
C. Negotiated with North Vietnam secretly during Paris
Peace Accords
___ 4. Richard M. Nixon
D. Defense Secretary under Kennedy and Johnson
___ 5. Robert McNamara
E. North Vietnamese president who wanted independence
for his people; believed in Communist philosophy
___ 6. William Westmoreland
F. President during Korean War; sent advisors to Nam
___ 7. Le Duc Tho
G. North Vietnamese Army; U.S. enemy
___ 8. Ho Chi Minh
H. President who prescribed to domino theory
___ 9. Ngo Diem
I. South Vietnamese president after overthrow
___ 10. Quang Duc
J. Commander of Armed Forces in Vietnam
___ 11. Charlie, Vietcong, Vietminh
K. President responsible for escalation; would not run for
reelection
___ 12. ARVN
L. Army who wanted to “liberate” Vietnam
___ 13. NLF
M. South Vietnamese Army
___ 14. S. Viet after Diem?
N. “Puppet” president of South Vietnam; placed by U.S.
___ 15. Henry Kissinger
O. Buddhist monk; self-immolation in response to
corruption
II. Definitions. Match each vocab word with its definition. (10 points)
___ 1. hawk
A. a derogatory word for Vietcong; a way to desensitize
___ 2. dove
B. looking for the enemy and ridding the area of him
___ 3. pacification
C. a chemical that stripped the jungle of its “menace”
___ 4. vietnamization
D. the most forward position of a platoon; very dangerous
___ 5. escalation
E. removing villagers to “safe” locations and destroying their
“hamlets”; a way to understand who the enemy is
___ 6. “gook”
F. a mobile U.S. mine; sprays out shrapnel
___ 7. search & destroy
G. supported the government’s war goals
___ 8. defoliant
H. raising the number of soldiers in Vietnam to 500,000
___ 9. Claymore
I. giving control of the war to the South Vietnamese Army
___ 10. point
J. protested the government’s war goals
III. Chronology. Order each of the following events by placing the LETTER of the first event
on blank number one, etc. (10 points)
A. Geneva Conference divides Vietnam
B. Nixon resigns his office of president
C. Dien Bien Phu falls
D. Advisors sent to Vietnam
E. U.S.S. Maddox is “attacked”
F. China colonizes Vietnam
G. Fall of Saigon
H. France colonizes Vietnam
I. My Lai Massacre
J. War Powers Act
IV. Presidents. Match each president to his term in office. (5 points)
___ 1. Richard M. Nixon
A. 1969-1975
___ 2. John F. Kennedy
B. 1954-1963
___ 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
C. 1961-1963
___ 4. Lyndon B. Johnson
D. 1989-1997
___ 5. George Bush
E. 1963-1969
V. Multiple Choice. Place the letter of the BEST answer in the blank. (35 points)
___ 1.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The average age of young U.S. soldiers in Vietnam was
16
19
21
24
___ 2.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The most used defoliant in Vietnam was
Napalm
Dioxin
DDT
Agent Orange
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder usually strikes
during the war in the most severe situations
after the vet returns from combat
when the vet is incredibly isolated
it’s not a “real” disease
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___ 12. The reason Johnson had so much power to move ahead with the Vietnam Conflict
was because of
A. the Tet Offensive
B. Operation Rolling Thunder
C. the Fall of Saigon
D. the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
___ 13. Napalm’s main ingredient was
A. hydrochloric acid
B. mustard gas
C. gasoline
D. Agent Orange
___ 14. Grunts were
A. medics with a heavy load
B. misused clerks
C. helicopter pilots
D. foot soldiers