Question 1

Which of these describes the congressional response to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Accepted Answer

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution received nearly unanimous support in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, effectively giving President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by communist aggression.

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress in 1964?

Accepted Answer

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed to give President Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, allowing him to take any measures he deemed necessary to defend U.S. forces and prevent further aggression, without a formal declaration of war by Congress.

Question 3

Why did the quality of life for urban minorities decline during the sixties and seventies?

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Question 4

The Great Society program VISTA was __________.

Accepted Answer

VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) was part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program and was designed to fight poverty in America, functioning similarly to the Peace Corps but focusing on domestic issues.

Question 5

By 1967, how did television coverage of the war in Vietnam influence the American public's opinion about this conflict?

Accepted Answer

Television coverage of the Vietnam War brought the brutal realities of human suffering and devastation into American living rooms, challenging the Johnson administration's moral justifications for the war and leading to increased public skepticism and opposition to U.S. involvement.

Question 6

Why was Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia controversial?

Accepted Answer

Nixon did not seek congressional approval for his actions.

Question 7

Why did the Johnson administration decide to escalate the war in Vietnam? What were the consequences of this decision?

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Question 8

Which agency created through the Great Society coordinated a network of community-based programs, such as the Job Corps and the Neighborhood Youth Corps, to help the poor help themselves by providing opportunities for education and employment?

Accepted Answer

The Office of Economic Opportunity was established during the Great Society era to oversee various programs aimed at combating poverty, including the Job Corps and the Neighborhood Youth Corps, which were designed to provide educational and employment opportunities to help the poor.

Question 9

Why were women from minority groups reluctant to participate in the new women's liberation movement?

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Question 10

In the spring of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in __________.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers' strike.

Question 11

During the Vietnam War, "fragging" was when American soldiers __________.

Accepted Answer

"Fragging" referred to the intentional killing or wounding of reckless or disliked commanding officers by their own troops, often using fragmentation grenades, hence the term. This was a manifestation of the extreme tensions and breakdown of discipline in some units during the Vietnam War.

Question 12

The Tet Offensive targeted __________.

Accepted Answer

The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, targeting major cities, towns, and military bases throughout South Vietnam, not the United States or specifically U.S. air bases or agricultural regions.

Question 13

Who called on African Americans "to assert their own definitions, to reclaim their history, their culture; to create their own sense of community and togetherness"?

Accepted Answer

Stokely Carmichael was a prominent figure in the Black Power movement and advocated for African Americans to define their own identity and culture, separate from the perspectives imposed by white society.

Question 14

Which of the following best characterizes Lyndon Johnson's rhetoric and action regarding Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon Johnson campaigned on a platform of restraint regarding Vietnam, but even before his election, he had begun to escalate U.S. involvement in the conflict, marking a discrepancy between his public statements and his actions.

Question 15

Betty Friedan's best-selling Feminine Mystique sparked the formation of __________.

Accepted Answer

The publication of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963 is widely credited with sparking the second wave of feminism in the United States, leading to the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.

Question 16

What country did President Kennedy call "the cornerstone of the Free World in Southeast Asia"?

Accepted Answer

President Kennedy referred to Vietnam as "the cornerstone of the Free World in Southeast Asia" due to its strategic importance in the context of the Cold War and the containment of communism.

Question 17

Why did Lyndon Johnson fail to build public consent for the actions he took during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Johnson failed to effectively communicate his decisions and the reasons for escalating the war, leading to a lack of public support.

Question 18

What was the key strategy behind Operation Rolling Thunder?

Accepted Answer

Operation Rolling Thunder was a campaign of gradual and sustained aerial bombardment conducted by the U.S. against North Vietnam, aimed at weakening its ability to support Vietcong operations in South Vietnam.

Question 19

What "dirty tricks" did the Nixon campaign use in the 1972 election? How did the campaign benefit from these tactics? How did they ultimately bring down Nixon's presidency?

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Question 20

Why did the Democrats find it so difficult to achieve consensus around a single candidate in 1968?

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Quiz 29: War Abroad