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1 Test Review

2  LBJ wins the presidency.

3  MLK is shot

4  JFK is assassinated

5  RFK is assassinated

6  The Tet Offensive takes US forces by surprise

7  Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

8  SDS is founded

9  The Woodstock Festival occurs in Bethel, NY

10  Nixon wins the presidency.

11  My Lai Massacre occurs.

12  Cronkite predicts a stalemate in the Vietman War.

13  Jane Fonda shows support for the NVA.

14  Nixon authorized bombing in Cambodia to knock out the VC supply line

15  Ms. Barker is born

16  Blacks and Hispanics were drafted at a proportional rate to their ratio in the general population.

17  The US military was severely defeated during the Tet Offensive.

18  Women and children were used by the VC to damage efforts to keep out communism.

19  Veterans felt compelled to travel in civilian clothes when returning home to avoid being spat at.

20  Ho Chi Minh used portions of the Declaration of Independence when separating from France to get the US on his side.

21  Ngo Dinh Diem was a well loved South Vietnamese leader whose sudden death saddened much of his country.

22  MLK believed that the Vietnam War would give Blacks the opportunity to earn respect and gain civil rights.

23  The body count was an effective measure of success in the Vietnam War.

24  The moonwalk happened the same summer as the Woodstock Festival.

25  The more radical acts of the counterculture helped usher conservatives like Nixon and Reagan into office.

26  The counterculture rejected all forms of religion as oppressive.

27  The pill enabled the freer sexual tendencies of the counterculture.

28  How many Congress people voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

29  What was the primary supply route to deliver weapons to the Viet Cong?

30  What student organization was created in the 60s for general protest against corporations, but later encouraged anti-war protests at US universities?

31  How did Generals start to measure success in battles in Vietnam?

32  Who was president when combat troops entered Vietnam?

33  Who was president when Vietnam was divided in two?

34  Who was president when combat troops were brought home from Vietnam?

35  Who was president when the helicopters were needed to evacuate the remaining personnel in Saigon in 1975?

36  At what university did the National Guard overreact during an anti-war protest?

37  Who burned himself in downtown Saigon?

38  The two birds that are used to represent war and peace?

39  How did the press refer to the documents that Daniel Ellsburg leaked?

40  What musical artist protested the War with these songs: Masters of War and A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall ?

41  Whose campaign slogan was “peace with honor”?

42  What specific recent activity taken on by Nixon were students protesting at Kent State in 1970?

43  What is the full name of the leader of North Vietnam?

44  Who was the news anchor who mentioned a sense of lost cause regarding the Vietnam War during his coverage of the Tet Offensive?

45  Who was JFK and LBJ’s Secretary of Defense who helped to escalate the Vietnam War, much to his embarrassment later on in life?

46  Who did Nixon send to negotiate peace with North Vietnam in 1969 and 1972?

47  What was the name for someone who avoided service in Vietnam by going to Canada or faking homosexuality?

48  Who was the creator of the idea of containing communism who ended up condemning the Vietnam War?

49  Who manipulated events in August 1964 to gain support for increased military action in Vietnam?

50  What was the name for someone who got out of the draft for religious or moral reasons?

51  Who was the supreme commander for the US military during the Vietnam War?

52  Which musical group helped America recover from the tragedy of the JFK assassination in February 1964?

53  What were the street names that represented the “hip” part of San Francisco in the late 60s?

54  Who was testing LSD on co-eds at Harvard until he was relieved of his duties and took off for California?

55  What Act did Nixon veto after the Vietnam War because he felt it took too much power away from the President?

56  What 1968 event hurt the reputation of US soldiers in Vietnam?


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