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A History of the Vietnam War DANTES Practice Test
1) With the passage of the _____________, Congress removed the president's power
to place American troops into combat without approval of Congress, a law that has
been broken in numerous occasions since its passage.
A) Great Society Act
B) Anti-War Act
C) War Powers Act
D) Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions
The correct answer is C:) War Powers Act. Though giving the American President the
ability to exercise his executive prerogatives of defending the United States, prior-Congressional
approval for any large-scale deployment of American troops was required.
2) In 1972, a group of burglars was caught breaking into the headquarters of the
_____________ at the Watergate office complex in Washington.
A) Democratic National Committee
B) Rand Corporation
C) FBI Washington Field Office
D) Committee to Re-elect the President
The correct answer is A:) Democratic National Committee. Essentially the home office
of the Democratic Party's campaign in the 1972 elections, the office in Watergate was
supposedly well-guarded, but the burglars were caught only after a witness saw the
burglars breaking in and alerted the police.
3) After interrogating the burglars, FBI agents and local police discovered a
_____________ that seemingly led back to the White House.
A) Trail of Blood
B) Money Trail
C) Employment Record
D) Wire
The correct answer is B:) Money Trail. The money paid to the burglars was traced back
to a slush fund operated by a Republican campaign coordinating organization called the
Committee to Re-elect the President. In an ironic twist, the acronym of the organization
was CREEP, a fitting word for the burglars.
4) Johnson defeated _____________ in the 1964 Presidential elections
A) Barry Goldwater
B) Richard Nixon
C) Hubert Humphrey
D) Al Gore
The correct answer is A:) Barry Goldwater. Goldwater, originally from Arizona, ran on
a conservative platform that would be the foundation for modern Republican conservatism.
5) _____________ was name of the air operation called that occurred between March
1965 and October 1968?
A) Operation Big Boom
B) Operation Horizon
C) Operation Rolling Thunder
D) Operation Overlord
The correct answer is C:) Operation Rolling Thunder. A massive bombing campaign,
Operation Rolling Thunder was aimed at putting increased military pressure on the
North Vietnamese by bombing key economic and industrial centers and to shut down
the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
6) The first 3,500 Marines sent to Vietnam, the beginning of the troop surge that
would mark the beginning of full-scale American participation in the war occurred
in _____________.
A) March 1965
B) April 1963
C) June 1970
D) December 1971
The correct answer is A:) March 1965. The deployment of 3,500 Marines were the first
official ground units sent over. Their original mission was defensive: guard the perimeter
of American and South Vietnamese air fields from Viet Cong attacks.
7) The Indochinese Communist Party was originated in the Vietnamese Revolutionary
Youth League, led by _____________.
A) Ho Chi Minh
B) Mao Zedong
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Lin Biao
The correct answer is A:) Ho Chi Minh. Though going by a different name at the time,
Ho Chi Minh led the party throughout his education in Vietnam and picked up leadership
duties after returning from Europe.
8) The _____________ was the name of the international political program developed
by Woodrow Wilson and presented at the Versailles Conference that Ho Chi Minh hoped could be used to convince the Conference to force France to grant
equal rights to the Vietnamese.
A) The Geneva Convention
B) The Fourteen Points
C) Liberal World Order
D) League of Nations
The correct answer is B:) The Fourteen Points. Ho Chi Minh was particularly hopeful
in the promise of Point V, which promoted the use of popular sovereignty to construct
and maintain an international order that prevented war and promoted peace.
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