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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 happened to Diem and Nhu after they fled?
(a) They were granted haven in Japan.
(b) They reached America and settled there.
(c) They were captured and killed.
(d) They returned to power.

2. What does Halberstam say General Westmoreland was asking President Johnson for, now that he was in control of Vietnam?
(a) More combat troops.
(b) More bombers.
(c) More time.
(d) More fighter jets.

3. What does Halberstam say was the purpose of operation Rolling Thunder?
(a) To open North Vietnamese markets.
(b) To demonstrate the benefits of democracy.
(c) To display American airpower.
(d) To force Hanoi to capitulate.

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

5. Who opposed the fact-finding trip to Vietnam in early 1965?
(a) The State Department.
(b) The President.
(c) The military.
(d) The CIA.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lyndon Johnson want to be remembered, in Halberstam's account?

2. When does Halberstam say the President's thinking about bombing began to change?

3. What does Halberstam say was the outcome of the report on the bombing attacks?

4. What does Halberstam say was the beginning of the 'credibility gap'?

5. What movement regarding the war does Halberstam say started at the University of California in Berkeley?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was interested in overthrowing Diem?

4. What was the result of the first direct confrontation with Vietcong and American troops?

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

6. What happened during the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

7. What was the result of the Spring Offensive?

8. What does Halberstam say began to change in early 1964?

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

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

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