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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the U.S. embassy offer to Diem and Nhu when the coup began?
(a) Safe conduct out of the country.
(b) Retribution against their enemies.
(c) Protection against their enemies.
(d) Return to power.

2. What does Halberstam say Americans were disunited about in the early 1960s?
(a) How to establish peace.
(b) How to go about fighting Communism.
(c) How to reduce nuclear weapons.
(d) How to balance the budget.

3. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
(a) An end of diplomacy.
(b) Bombing of North Vietnam.
(c) The use of napalm.
(d) A Northern offensive.

4. When Kennedy did not authorize more troops, what does Halberstam say he told the Pentagon?
(a) To develop plans to expand the war to Cambodia.
(b) To plan to redeploy combat troops.
(c) To prepare a larger engagement.
(d) To develop an exit strategy.

5. What did the fact-finding mission discover at about the time of the problem with the Buddhist monks?
(a) Vast corruption.
(b) The U.S. was unprepared for guerilla warfare.
(c) Diem was not on top of the situation.
(d) The North was expanding its recruitment.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which issue does Halberstam say Kennedy compromised with the military?

2. What did the code 34A stand for in the White House?

3. What problem does Halberstam say McNamara discovered in Vietnam?

4. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?

5. How does Halberstam say the U.S. spun the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

(see the answer key)

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