The Candid Test On Vietnam War Quiz
- 1.What incident served as pretext for United States to enter the conflict
- A.
Marco Polo Bridge incident
- B.
Gulf of Tonkin incident
- C.
Bombing of the American embassy in Saigon
- D.
Watergate scandal
- 2.In South Vietnam, American forces were fighting
- A.
The Taliban
- B.
The Mujahedin
- C.
Vietcong
- D.
Vietminh
- 3.For United States, the measure of their success in the conflict was
- A.
Body count
- B.
Enemy soldiers captured
- C.
Territory acquired
- D.
Enemy planes destroyed
- 4.American overall commander in Vietnam
- A.
General McArthur
- B.
General Westmoreland
- C.
General Colin Powell
- D.
General Patton
- 5.In colonial times, Vietnam was a colony of
- A.
Belgium
- B.
France
- C.
Morocco
- D.
Great Britain
- 6.Ho Chi Minh, the leader of N. Vietnam was
- A.
A military officer educated at West Point
- B.
A shopkeeper
- C.
A shoemaker
- D.
A peasant
- 7.The main support for the war in Vietnam came from
- A.
Buddhist monks
- B.
The Vietnamese people themselves
- C.
The American public
- D.
None of the above
- 8.The Vietnam war was mainly fought for
- A.
Liberty and freedom
- B.
Land
- C.
Anti-communism sentiment
- D.
Oil
- 9.The United States most potent weapon in Vietnam was
- A.
The B-52 Bomber
- B.
Marine snipers
- C.
Tank division
- D.
Atomic bomb
- 10.The peace talk that ended the war in Vietnam took place in this city
- A.
Abidjan
- B.
Paris
- C.
Geneva
- D.
New York
- 11.Highly successful United States diplomat who played a key role in the peace talks to end the conflict in Vietnam
- A.
Prudence Bushnell
- B.
Condoliza Rice
- C.
Henry Kissinger
- D.
Hillary Clinton
- 12.Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam was a
- A.
Peasant
- B.
Shoe maker
- C.
A village chief
- D.
A military officer trained at Westpoint
- 13.French colonial rule ended after the sound defeat at the valley of
- A.
Da Nang
- B.
Saigon
- C.
Dien bien phu
- D.
Hanoi
- 14.During his term as president, Lyndon B. Johnson thought that priority for United States should be
- A.
Achieve peace with honor
- B.
Stop the spread of communism by all means
- C.
Withdarw immediately from Vietnam
- D.
Concentrate on domestic social programs
- 15.In the peace talks that ended the conflict, North Vietnam was represented by
- A.
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ki
- B.
Le Duc Tho
- C.
President Thieu
- D.
President Ngo Dinh Diem
- 16.Congress voted unanimously to give the president an official declaration of war and a blank check to wage war in Vietnam
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Before the conflict in Vietnam, most Americans did not know where Vietnam is located on the globe
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.The United States invaded Vietnam in an effort to combat global terrorism
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.J.F.K was the president during the escalation phase of the conflict
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Lyndon Johnson was the president who ended the war in Vietnam
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Vietnam was the most unpopular war in the history of the United States
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.The ultimate objective of the conflict was to false Vietnam to trade with the United States
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.To undermine N. Vietman will to fight, United States launched two major aerial bombing campaigns, 'Operation Rolling Thunder' and 'Operation Linebacker'
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Support for the war sharply declined in the United States when Saigon chief of police was shown on NBC prime time news shooting a Vietcong prisoner at point blank range
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.To end the war, Vietnam surrendered and embraced a capitalist economy
- A.
True
- B.
False
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