Lyndon Johnson

Question 1

What year had the first two American military deaths in Vietnam?

Answer 1

1959

Question 2

In what year did Vietnamese monks set themselves on fire to protest the South Vietnamese Government?

Answer 2

1963

Question 3

In what year did the gulf of Tonkin incident occur?

Answer 3

1964

Question 4

In what year was the first American POW taken by N. Vietnam?

Answer 4

1964

Question 5

In what year did Operation Rolling Thunder begin? How long did it continue? What did it entail.

Answer 5

1965-1968, the sustained bombing of North Vietnam.

Question 6

In what year were the first student demonstrations against Vietnam.

Answer 6

1965

Question 7

When is agent orange a defoliant used in vietnam?

Answer 7

1966

Question 8

In what year were the siege of Khe Sahn and the Tet offensive?

Answer 8

1968

Question 9

What was the objective of the Tet offensive and what was the result for the Vietnamese and the Americans?

Answer 9

Objective: to cause a general uprising in the south.
Result: no uprising, but it weakened American popular support for the war.

Question 10

In what year did Robert McNamara resign?

Answer 10

1968

Question 11

Who was Robert McNamara?

Answer 11

He was Johnson’s defense secretary

Question 12

Who was Eugene McCarthy?

Answer 12

A senator who nearly defeated Johnson in the NH democratic primary

Question 13

What was the year of the My Lai massacre?

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

What was the maximum number of troops that Americans had in Vietnam?

Answer 14

540,000

Question 15

In what year was Robert Kennedy assassinated?

Answer 15

1968

Question 16

In what year was the Moratorium and what was its agenda?

Answer 16

1969, To expand the peace movement off the college campuses and into the cities.

Question 17

In what year did national guardsmen kill four student at Kent State?

Answer 17

1970

Question 18

In what year were “the Pentagon Papers” released?

Answer 18

1971

Question 19

In what year did the draft end?

Answer 19

1973

Question 20

In what year did the formal cease fire agreement come into effect?

Answer 20

1973

Question 21

In what year did the war resume?

Answer 21

1974

Question 22

In what year did the North Vietnamese overrun south Vietnam and Cambodia?

Answer 22

1975

Question 23

In what year did Jimmy Carter pardon draft evaders?

Answer 23

1977

Question 24

Why did Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violent protest not resonate with many blacks by 1965?

Answer 24

They, while being non-violent were encountering more and more violence toward themselves.

Question 25

Who were Floyd McKissick and Stokely Carmichael?

Answer 25

McKissick was involved in CORE

Carmichael was involved in SNCC

Question 26

What was the condition of Watts?

Answer 26

High crime, poverty, and overcrowding.

Question 27

How did the Watts protest start?

Answer 27

With a traffic stop of a young black man

Question 28

What happened in Watts?

Answer 28

a giant race riot

Question 29

What had to happen in order to get control of Watts?

Answer 29

The National Guard had to be sent in.

Question 30

When was Martin Luther King killed and who killed him?

Answer 30

Feb 28, 1968. James Earl Ray

Question 31

What was the premise of Ralph Nader’s book, “Unsafe at Any Speed”?

Answer 31

That car companies place higher priority of profits than protection.

Question 32

In what year was the cigarette industry required to put a warning label on its packaging?

Answer 32

1965

Question 33

Who was Ernesto Miranda?

Answer 33

A rapist who changed history

Question 34

To what legal rights is an accused person entitled to under Miranda vs. the State of AZ?

Answer 34

He must be told that he has the right to remain silent.

Question 35

Who was Cassius Clay

Answer 35

Muhammad Ali

Question 36

What happened at My Lai?

Answer 36

A massacre on an innocent village

Question 37

How many bombs were dropped on Vietnam during the war?

Answer 37

7 million tons

Question 38

Who was the first man to step onto the moon and what year did it happen?

Answer 38

Neil Armstrong 1969

Question 39

What was “the Great Society?”

Answer 39

The idealistic American dream that would be accomplished through government programs.

Question 40

How generally accurate are movies made by Hollywood showing historical events?

Answer 40

Not very accurate at all

Question 41

What was the FBI’s real concern during the civil rights movement?

Answer 41

To represent the civil rights movement as communist.

Question 42

What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964

Answer 42

There was a real and a fake attack on a warship Maddox.

Question 43

How did Johnson use the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

Answer 43

To get the Tonkin resolution passed into law

Question 44

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

Answer 44

The leader of North Veitnam

Question 45

When did America begin to assist the French in Vietnam?

Answer 45

1950

Question 46

When was Vietnam divided up into North and South

Answer 46

1954

Question 47

What year did the US agree to help the French in its was with communist Rebels in French Indochina (Vietnam?”

Answer 47

1950

Question 48

In what year did the French pull out of Vietnam and the country is partitioned into North and South

Answer 48

1954