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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 happened when control shifted out of Taylor's hands in March and April 1965?

2. What was Paul Kattenburg's view of the war, in early 1964?

3. What does Halberstam say was decided at the April 20, 1965 meeting in Honolulu?

4. What did the U.S. embassy offer to Diem and Nhu when the coup began?

5. What does Halberstam say was the result of the Spring Offensive?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was interested in overthrowing Diem?

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

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

5. Describe what Halberstam calls 'the Bundy trip' to Vietnam.

6. What does Halberstam say became clear to the American government after Diem's death?

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

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

9. What does Halberstam say happened when Westmoreland assumed control?

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

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 lessons did the U.S. learn from the Bay of Pigs invasion, and how were these lessons visible in the planning for military campaigns in Vietnam? Did the Bay of Pigs invasion sour the U.S. war planners on relying on local forces? Did it foster the argument for bombing instead of troops on the ground?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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