CHAPTER 16 QUESTIONS 5 sections, and Document Based Questions Ch. 16 Sec. 1: Origins of the Vietnam War 1) French Indochina included which three cultures? 2) How many people lived in Indochina by the end of WWII? 3) How old was Ho Chi Minh when he fled Vietnam? 4) Why was the decision of whom to support on the Indochina issue such a dilemma for Truman? 5) What is the domino theory? 6) What French garrison fell to the Vietminh? 7) Who led the South Vietnamese government? 8) By what name were the rebel South Vietnamese communists known? What were their Guerilla fighters called? 9) In what dramatic fashion did some Buddhists protest Diem s government? 10) What is the subject of Rothco s political cartoon? Ch.16 Sec.2: US involvement grows 1) What was the name of the 1 st sustained bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese? 2) Who was the American commander in South Vietnam? 3) What, besides bombs, did American troops drop in Vietnam? 4) In what city was the southernmost portion of the Ho Chi Minh trail? 5) When did the number of American soldiers in Vietnam first approach 500,000? 6) Why was the superior American firepower not effective against the Vietcong? 7) Where did the Russ Wilkinson s mother live? 8) What did John McCain do immediately after he was a Vietnam P.O.W. for 5 ½ years? 9) What were hawks and doves? 10) Who was chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee? Was he a hawk or a dove? With which party was he affiliated? Ch 16 Sec 3: The War Divides America 1) What percent of the men who served in Vietnam were drafted 2) In 1965 and 66, what percentage of troops that died in combat were African Americans? What percentage of the US population was African Americans those same years? 3) How did the Selective Service System respond to inequities of the draft? 4) What two universities became hubs of the antiwar movement? 5) What was the credibility gap?
6) What was the Tet Offensive? 7) What major announcements did Johnson make in March of 68? 8) In what month and year did more Americans say that US involvement in Vietnam was a mistake? 9) How many more states did Wallace win than Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election? 10) What happened when Bobby Kennedy announced his bid for presidency? Ch.16 Sec.4: The war s end and impact 1) Who was the mayor of New York in 1969? 2) What was Vietnamization? 3) In what year were the most US troops in Vietnam? How many were there? 4) How many people died at the Kent state shooting? 5) Of what was Lt. William Colley connected? 6) What was the result of New York Times v. United States? 7) What allowed American POW s to come home? How many were there? 8) Who was Robert Stirm? 9) Why does Seymour Hersh feel like Bush s labeling of the Afghanistan invasion as a success is 10) Which branch gained power as a result of the War Powers Act? Which branch lost power? Ch.16 Sec.5: Nixon and the cold war 1) Whose had did Nixon shake in 1972? 2) Who was Henry Kissinger? 3) What political policy suggests pursuing concrete neutral interests rather than abstract ideologies? 4) How did Nixon and Johnson differ on foreign and domestic policy? 5) Why did it surprise many people when Nixon decided to recognize China? 6) What did the Chinese do to indicate they were willing to talk with the U.S? 7) Who was the Chinese premier in 1971? 8) How did Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev react to Nixon s trip to China? 9) What was SALT I? 10) What are MIRVs? ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE WRITTEN OUT, AND ALL ANSWERS MUST BE ON POINT AND IN COMPLETE SENTENCE FORM DOCUMENT BASED QUESTIONS ARE FOUND ON PAGE 567. THE MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS MUST BE WRITTEN OUT COMPLETELY, AND THE WRITING QUESTION MUST BE ¾ OF A PAGE MINIMUM.
Answers sec 1: 1) Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam were all part of Indochina. 2) The population of French Indochina was 27 million. 3) Ho was born in 1890 and fled Vietnam in 1912 when he was 22. 4) Vietnam was seeking independence, with communist assistance. Truman was anti-colonial, but also anti-communist. 5) The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, neighbor countries soon would follow, was known as the domino theory. 6) After a 55 siege, Dion Bien Phu fell to the Vietminh. 7) Ngo Dinh Diem led the South Vietnamese government. 8) The national Liberation Fronts fighters were know as the Vietcong. 9) Upset with Diem s restructive policies, some Buddhists set themselves on fire in protest. 10) The cartoon on page 536 details the disparity between technology of the US and Vietnamese. Answers sec 2: 1) Operation rolling thunder was part of an attempt to Americanize the war. 2) Commander William Westmoreland helped cancel Johnson to change strategy. 3) Jellied gasoline, or napalm, and an herbicide, Agent Orange, were dropped in Vietnam. 4) The southernmost western portion of the Ho Chi Minh Trail ended in Saigon. 5) By 1966-67, there were nearly ½ million American troops in Vietnam. 6) The North Vietnamese avoided significant engagements. 7) According to the postcard on page 541, Mrs. J Wilkinson lived in East Peoria, Illinois. 8) After his release in 1973, McCain rejoined the Navy for 8 more years. 9) The hawks felt the containment of communism justified the escalating number of American casualties. The doves questioned our involvement aid viewed the conflict as a localized civil war. 10) Democratic J, William Fulbright became the dove leader in Congress. Answers sec 3: 1) 1.5 million of the 2.5 million (60 %) men who served in Vietnam were draftees. 2) Though only (11%) of the American population, AAs represented about 20% of combat deaths. 3) The Selective Service System adopted a lottery system in 1969. 4) The university if Michigan and the university of California of Berkeley both were hubs of the anti-war movement.
5) The gap referred to the growing difference between what the Johnson administration reported and what the journalists reported. 6) The Tet offensive was a coordinated North Vietnamese attack on 36 capitols, 5 major cities and the US Embassy. 7) Johnson announced that he would seek peace and that he would not run for another presidential term. 8) In April of 1968, 48% of people thought US involvement was a mistake, whereas 40% didn t. 9) Humphrey won 12 states; Wallace won 5, for a difference of 7. 10) A Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy June 5 th 1968. Answers sec 4: 1) John Lindsay was the NY mayor in 1969. 2) Nixon wanted the North Vietnamese to replace the withdrawing US troops. 3) In 1968 there were over 500 US troops in Vietnam. 4) As a result of the fire on protestors, 4 youths were killed. 5) Colley ordered the May Lai Massacre in which nearly 500 unarmed Vietnamese were killed. 6) The court ruled that Nixon could not push the New York times from publishing the Pentagon papers which 7) As a result of the Paris Peace Accords, 550 American POW s came home. 8) Lt. Colonel Robert Stirm was a Vietnam POW. 9) Reports demonstrated that warlords dominate the country and the illegal drug trade is flourishing. 10) The War Powers Act requires the president to consult with congress before commuting troops. This was a lessening of the Executive Branch powers and an increase of the Legislative. Answers sec 5: 1) Unlike Dulles in 54, Nixon shook Zhou s hand. 2) Kissinger was Nixon s leading advisor on National security and foreign affairs. 3) Nixon and Kissinger both embraced realpolitik or real politics. 4) Johnson wanted to focus on domestic policy whereas Nixon on foreign policy. 5) Nixon made his career as a stanch opponent of communism. 6) In April 1971, China invited the US table tennis team to play in China. 7) Kissinger met with Premier Zhou Enlai in 1971. 8) Fearing isolation due to improved U.S-China relations; Brezhnev invited Nixon to west Moscow. 9) The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was an agreement between the US and USSR to cease deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
10) Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles stockpiling was not banned by SALT I.