Vietnam & Counterculture Test Content

Question 1

leader of Indochinese Comunist party that stayed revolts

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

South Vietnam’s president

Answer 2

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 3

organization whose goal was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule

Answer 3

Vietminh

Question 4

communist opposition group in the South

Answer 4

Vietcong

Question 5

secretary of defense

Answer 5

Robert McNamara

Question 6

American commander in South Vietnam

Answer 6

William Westmoreland

Question 7

announced the first US troop withdrawals from Vietnam

Answer 7

Richard Nixon

Question 8

National Security Adviser

Answer 8

Henry Kissinger

Question 9

Vietminh overran the French outpost here

Answer 9

Dien Bien Phu

Question 10

supplied arms to the Vietcong via this trail

Answer 10

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 11

massacre of innocent civillians

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My Lai Massacre

Question 12

massive student protest led to burning of ROTC building

Answer 12

Kent State Incident

Question 13

opposed against war

Answer 13

Doves

Question 14

for war

Answer 14

Hawks

Question 15

countries on the brink of communism waiting to fall another country

Answer 15

Domino Theory

Question 16

granted Johnson broad millitary powers in Vietnam

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 17

gasoline based bomb that set fire to the jungle

Answer 17

Napalm

Question 18

leaf-killing toxic chemical

Answer 18

Agent Orange

Question 19

uprooting civillians w/ suspected ties to the Vietcong

Answer 19

search-and-destroy missions

Question 20

all males had to register with local draft boards once 18

Answer 20

Draft

Question 21

move the nation toward socialism

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New Left

Question 22

series of surprise attacks on major cities and millitary bases in South Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

Question 23

gradual withdrawl of US troops for South Vitanamese to take active combat

Answer 23

Vietnamization

Question 24

Americans who quietly supported Vietnam war policies

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Silent Majority

Question 25

7,000pg doc revealed plans regarding war

Answer 25

Pentagon Papers

Question 26

president must inform Congress within 48 hrs of sending forces into a hostile area w/o declaration of war

Answer 26

War Powers Act

Question 27

Leader of North Vietnam

Answer 27

Ho Chi Minh

Question 28

Leader of South Vietnam

Answer 28

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 29

What type of leader was Ho Chi Minh?

Answer 29

communist

Question 30

What type of leader was Ngo Dinh Diem?

Answer 30

anti-communist

Question 31

What were the 3 factors that were the most challenging in regards to fighting the communist/North Vietnamese?

Answer 31

- Vietcong's fighting style - Vietcong's refusal to surrender - America's inability to get Vietnamese peasants' support

Question 32

What were the two new unconventional weapons used in Vietnam?

Answer 32

- Napalm - Agent Orange

Question 33

officially ended the First Indochina war & temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel

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Geneva Accords

Question 33

large bomb operation to show extent of US powers

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rolling thunder

Question 34

North Vietnam Army occupied Saigon and the South surrendered

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1975 Saigon Vietnam

Question 35

lit themselves on fire in stage of protest

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Buddhists (Protest/Rose in Vietnam)

Question 36

challenged political related things

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establishment

Question 36

What was the main group of the Counterculture movement?

Answer 36

Hippies

Question 37

challenged social norms

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Counterculture movement

Question 38

a symbol of protest and rebellion

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rock-n-roll

Question 38

What was the main event of the time that Counter Culture protested against?

Answer 38

The Vietnam War

Question 39

What event represents the Native American protest?

Answer 39

Wounded Knee

Question 40

AIM

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American Indian Movement

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music art festival

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Woodstock

Question 40

How long did Wounded Knee last?

Answer 40

71 days

Question 41

How did AIM play a role in Native American Protest?

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shootout at Wounded Knee and allowed Treaty rights to be reexamined

Question 42

What 2 goals did AIM have at Wounded Knee?

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- improve living conditions - fight for restoration of tribal sovereignty & treaty rights

Question 43

wrote the Famine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

Question 44

What major feminist organization was formed in 1966?

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Nation Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 45

Journalist who was a native from Toledo, Ohio that helped find Ms. magazine in the early 1970s

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Gloria Steinem

Question 46

What 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion?

Answer 46

Roe v. Wade

Question 47

What is the ERA?

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Equal Rights Amendment

Question 48

What were the opposition to the ERA?

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Phyllis Schlafly

Question 49

activist who helped with the farmers

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Cesar Chavez

Question 50

solidarity between Mexican-American & Fillipino- American

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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

Question 51

former hispanic political party

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La Raza Unida

Question 52

Secretary of State

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Dean Rusk

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South Vietnamese millitary forces

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Question 54

Situation in which the US public no longer believed the Johnson administration

Answer 54

credibility gap