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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 does Halberstam say General Westmoreland was projecting after 1965?
(a) More bombings and fewer troops on the ground.
(b) More troops and more years of war.
(c) More casualties, but also more political victories.
(d) More political pressure and fewer battles.

2. Who was the only administration insider arguing against escalation?
(a) Maxwell Taylor.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) McGeorge Bundy.
(d) George Ball.

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

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

5. What evidence does Halberstam say the President was presented with to make the case for bombing?
(a) U.S. soldiers' casualty rates.
(b) Jobs reports in districts where bombs were manufactured.
(c) Test results from the bomb manufacturers.
(d) U.S. soldiers' atrocities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of problem does Halberstam say the cost of the war caused for the Johnson administration?

4. Who oversaw domestic operations of the operation code named 34A?

5. What does Halberstam say Maxwell Taylor discovered was true about Khanh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the questions people were asking on the issue of bombing the North?

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

3. Who was interested in overthrowing Diem?

4. What program did Maxwell Taylor call for in the paper he wrote on his way back from Vietnam?

5. What issues were discussed as there started to be struggles over Vietnam strategy in mid-1965?

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

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

8. What was the military's position on bombing North Vietnam?

9. What was the intelligence community's assessment of Rolling Thunder?

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

(see the answer keys)

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