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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who oversaw domestic operations of the operation code named 34A?
(a) McGeorge Bundy.
(b) Maxwell Taylor.
(c) General Westmoreland.
(d) General Harkins.

2. What did the fact-finding trip to Vietnam in early 1965 coincide with?
(a) The assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr.
(b) Premiere Kosygin's visit to Hanoi.
(c) The creation of Social Security in America.
(d) Civil rights demonstrations in Alabama.

3. How did Lyndon Johnson want to be remembered, in Halberstam's account?
(a) As an expert.
(b) As a diplomat.
(c) As a force for peace.
(d) As an achiever.

4. When did McNamara say the U.S. would be out of Vietnam, when he visited the country?
(a) By the end of 1965.
(b) By the end of 1968.
(c) By 1970.
(d) By the beginning of 1966.

5. What does Halberstam say was decided at the April 20, 1965 meeting in Honolulu?
(a) The military reduced troop levels.
(b) The military shifted to search-and-destroy missions exclusively.
(c) The military agreed to increased troop usage.
(d) The military refused to provide reports from field commanders.

6. What strategy does Halberstam say evolved out of the struggle over troop strength?
(a) The bombing campaign.
(b) The use of napalm.
(c) A search-and-destroy strategy.
(d) Bombing of Cambodia.

7. In what way does Halberstam say that Lyndon Johnson resembled Kennedy in his management style?
(a) Johnson trusted the military's reports.
(b) Johnson did not seek a wide variety of opinions.
(c) Johnson used a cabinet of enemies.
(d) Johnson sought out expert opinions beyond his cabinet.

8. When does Halberstam say the Johnson administration realized that Bundy was necessary to their planning?
(a) When they had a hard time while he was on vacation.
(b) When Taylor's theories were proven wrong.
(c) When Diem was overthrown, as Bundy had predicted he would be.
(d) When McNamara's plans were ineffectual.

9. What does Halberstam say the administration had led the American people to believe about the war?
(a) That American air power would win the war quickly.
(b) That it would not be a large war.
(c) That international consensus would build in support of America's actions.
(d) That the war would pay for itself.

10. When does Halberstam say the President's thinking about bombing began to change?
(a) After the Vietcong attack on Qui Nhon.
(b) After the media began to carry explicit photos from the front.
(c) After the 1964 elections.
(d) After he realized that Khanh was not an effective leader.

11. What problem does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor had in Vietnam?
(a) Taylor could not get honest reporting.
(b) Taylor could not control things like he had elsewhere.
(c) Taylor could not convince his superiors that conditions were bad.
(d) Taylor could not understand how the Vietcong withstood the bombings.

12. Who traveled to Vietnam after the 1965 inauguration?
(a) Westmoreland, Harriman and Rusk.
(b) McNamara, Ball and Harriman.
(c) Taylor, Ball and Bundy.
(d) Bundy, McNamara and Rusk.

13. What does Halberstam say the Kennedy administration found out after the coup?
(a) The government did not know what was going on in the war.
(b) The Buddhists were attracting dissidents in opposition to the government.
(c) The Vietnamese government did not have control of the Delta.
(d) The Vietnamese government did not have its people's support.

14. Who does Halberstam say was especially vocal in calling for a change in U.S. Vietnam policy?
(a) General Westmoreland.
(b) McGeorge Bundy.
(c) Maxwell Taylor.
(d) Averell Harriman.

15. The war continued until which President took office?
(a) Carter.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was named commander of American forces in Vietnam in June 1964?

2. What evidence does Halberstam give for the deterioration of the mood in America?

3. What position did Maxwell Taylor begin to support as a result of his late 1964 trip to Vietnam?

4. What did Johnson say he needed before they could move against the North?

5. What does Halberstam say was the effect of the Gulf of Tonkin incident on the U.S. government?

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