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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Halberstam say was the Joint Chiefs of Staff's perception of the problem in Vietnam?
(a) They were planning to solve it with a coup.
(b) They thought it could be resolved diplomatically.
(c) They thought it could be solved by bombing.
(d) They thought it was a military problem.

4. What was Paul Kattenburg's view of the war, in early 1964?
(a) He saw it as an experiment in nation-building.
(b) He thought it was a waste of political and economic capital.
(c) He described it as a crusade.
(d) He doubted its correctness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor had in Vietnam?

2. What does Halberstam say was the conclusion of the study that analyzed the results of a bombing attack against the north?

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

4. How does Halberstam say Johnson conducted planning for the Vietnam war?

5. What had USAID done in Vietnam at the beginning of Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was President Johnson's position regarding Vietnam in the early days of his presidency?

2. What does Halberstam say the effect of the Vietnam war on the American people was?

3. What did the Johnson administration tell America as it committed more troops to Vietnam?

4. What does Halberstam say McNamara found in Vietnam when the Johnson administration took over?

5. What was President Johnson's position with regard to bombing?

6. What was Dean Rusk's role in Vietnam after Kennedy's assassination?

7. What were the alternatives the staff in Vietnam laid out for Maxwell Taylor when he visited Vietnam in the fall of 1964?

8. What was the public story of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and what was the truth?

9. Who expressed doubt about the Vietnam war, and what happened to their opposition?

10. Who was interested in overthrowing Diem?

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