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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?
2. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Chinese Revolution and the McCarthy period?
3. What did the Geneva Convention decide in Vietnam?
4. What does Halberstam say was the sense in the Kennedy administration as they came into office?
5. Where was the war going badly, at the time when the White House was losing faith in Diem?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the atmosphere in America when Kennedy took office.
2. How did the meeting between Lovett and Kennedy play in the press?
3. Who was Robert A. Lovett, and what does Halberstam say he signified for Kennedy?
4. Describe Vietnam's problems with the Buddhist monks.
5. What did Kennedy's representatives report back after their 1961 fact-finding mission?
6. Who was Dean Rusk, and what was his role and place in the Kennedy administration?
7. Who was Chester Bowles, and what did Kennedy get by tapping Bowles to be an adviser?
8. Why did Diem and the U.S. end up working together?
9. What crises confronted the Kennedy administration in 1961?
10. What was the American government's relationship with Diem in 1961?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the containment of the 1960s differ from the preemptive foreign policy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How has American foreign policy changed since the 1960s?
Essay Topic 2
What must McGeorge Bundy or Robert McNamara or President Johnson have thought about the Vietnam war? Write a journal entry as if you were them.
Essay Topic 3
What kind of administrative or bureaucratic changes could have helped the war effort in Vietnam? Specifically, how could U.S. commanders have ensured that accurate information flowed unimpeded from troops and analysts in Vietnam to military planners in the U.S.? What factors in the military or political establishment created this problem?
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