Quiz 9 on Chapter 29 – Flashcards
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What did the War Powers Act of 1973 stipulate?
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The president had to secure congressional approval for any substantial, long-term deployment of troops abroad.
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Who won the Democratic nomination for president in 1968?
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Hubert Humphrey
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What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War in Vietnam itself?
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North Vietnam occupied Saigon, and the country reunified.
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What were the Pentagon Papers, which became public in 1971?
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A secret government study critical of U.S. policy in Vietnam
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By early 1968, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara had come to what conclusion about the Vietnam War?
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Intensified bombings would never convince the North Vietnamese to give up.
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What was the objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961?
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To overthrow Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro's socialist government
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What made the Tet Offensive an important turning point for President Johnson?
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It underscored the credibility gap between official statements and the war's actual progress.
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The U.S. policy of détente with the Soviet Union entailed the United States
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beginning new discussions with the Soviet Union on arms control and trade.
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What did the initiation of Operation Rolling Thunder in February 1965 indicate?
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the war in Vietnam had become America's war.
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Who constituted about 80 percent of American troops in Vietnam?
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Poor and working-class Americans
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Which of the following describes the thirteen-day Cuban missile crisis of 1962?
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It brought the world's two superpowers close to nuclear war.
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Why did American military officials begin calculating their progress in body counts and kill ratios in Vietnam in 1965?
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It was impossible to measure military success based on territory seized.
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What did the "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War in 1968 demonstrate about the United States?
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It now hoped to achieve its objective of a non-Communist South Vietnam by relying more heavily on the South Vietnamese.
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The 1968 presidential candidacy of George C. Wallace attracted
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those who were outraged by racial integration and other liberal reforms
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What happened during the Tet Offensive of January 1968?
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The Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces attacked key cities and every major American base in South Vietnam.
