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During the three months following the January 1973 peace accord, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu sought unsuccessfully to solidify his position by: |
| | A) | Opening secret negotiations with Hanoi. |
| | B) | Securing military aid from France. |
| | C) | Asking the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers to South Vietnam. |
| | D) | Appealing directly to the American people for additional military assistance. |
| | E) | Securing control of disputed territory through refugee resettlement and military action. |
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In the six months following the peace accord, North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG): |
| | A) | Made a good faith effort to secure a negotiated solution to the war. |
| | B) | Proposed that the World Court mediate the ongoing dispute between Hanoi and Saigon. |
| | C) | Launched a massive, tank-led offensive aimed at capturing Saigon. |
| | D) | Consolidated territory under Communist control, infiltrated troops into South Vietnam, and constructed a greatly improved logistical infrastructure. |
| | E) | Called on France to use its good offices to achieve a mutually satisfactory diplomatic solution to the war. |
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President Richard Nixon followed the January 1973 peace accord by: |
| | A) | Scrupulously adhering to the letter and spirit of the agreement. |
| | B) | Securing Congressional approval for continued American bombing in the event the accord broke down. |
| | C) | Using subterfuge to continue providing high levels of military aid to South Vietnam without overtly transgressing the Paris accords. |
| | D) | Threatening North Vietnam with nuclear retaliation should it fail to remove its troops from South Vietnam. |
| | E) | Washing his hands of America's Vietnam commitment. |
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Inspired by popular weariness with the Vietnam War, Congress in 1973: |
| | A) | Insisted that Nixon provide North Vietnam with $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid. |
| | B) | Passed the War Powers Act and forced Nixon to end the bombing of Cambodia. |
| | C) | Called for a massive bombing effort to settle the war once and for all. |
| | D) | Agreed to provide virtually unlimited military assistance to South Vietnam to offset the withdrawal of American troops. |
| | E) | Demanded escalating military actions designed to force Hanoi to make a full accounting of all American soldiers who remained Missing in Action (MIA). |
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South Vietnamese President Thieu's "Four Nos" included all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | No negotiations. |
| | B) | No recognition of the enemy. |
| | C) | No coalition government. |
| | D) | No neutralization for South Vietnam. |
| | E) | No territorial concessions. |
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During 1974, South Vietnam: |
| | A) | Suffered economic problems but saw its military position improve slightly. |
| | B) | Launched a successful offensive against Communist base areas in Cambodia. |
| | C) | Suffered serious economic problems, witnessed a sharp drop in morale, and faced an unfavorable shift in the military balance of power. |
| | D) | Won steadily increasing popular support in the United States as a result of its plucky defense in the face of mounting Communist attacks. |
| | E) | Experienced a series of military defeats, but enjoyed an unprecedented period of political unity. |
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In January 1975, Hanoi decided to: |
| | A) | Launch a massive offensive designed to achieve a quick victory in the spring of 1975. |
| | B) | Continue with low-intensity guerrilla actions in anticipation of the Thieu regime's complete collapse. |
| | C) | Build up its military forces for a massive offensive to take place in the summer of 1977. |
| | D) | Assist the Khmer Rouge in their war with the Cambodia government before completing the conquest of South Vietnam. |
| | E) | Launch a large offensive in the spring of 1975 designed to set the stage for a "general offensive, general uprising" in 1976. |
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Faced with the impending collapse of South Vietnam in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: |
| | A) | Gladly washed their hands of America's decades-old commitment to South Vietnam. |
| | B) | Successfully persuaded Congress to increase dramatically the amount of military assistance the U.S. provided to South Vietnam. |
| | C) | Ordered carrier-based American aircraft to bomb advancing North Vietnamese columns. |
| | D) | Sought to shift blame to the legislative branch and to boost South Vietnamese morale by asking Congress to approve a $722 million emergency military aid package. |
| | E) | Supported a military coup d'etat against President Thieu. |
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In the years following the Communist victories in Indochina, the non-Communist states of Southeast Asia: |
| | A) | Fell like a row of dominoes to internal Communist insurgencies. |
| | B) | Enjoyed unprecedented levels of stability. |
| | C) | Were conquered one by one by Vietnam's massive, well-trained army. |
| | D) | Became satellites of the Soviet Union. |
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Following the war's conclusion in 1975, the people of Vietnam experienced all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Oppression. |
| | B) | "Reeducation camps." |
| | C) | Forced labor. |
| | D) | Unprecedented economic growth. |
| | E) | Searing poverty. |
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Inspired by Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika campaign, Vietnam's doi moi program: |
| | A) | Stressed political liberalization at the expense of much-needed economic reforms. |
| | B) | Produced modest economic gains but included no political liberalization. |
| | C) | Ended the Communist party's monopoly on political power and turned Vietnam into a liberal, parliamentary democracy. |
| | D) | Brought about massive economic growth that saw per capita income soar from $200 to $4,000. |
| | E) | Returned Vietnam to a command economy under the strict direction of the state. |
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Immediately following the fall of Saigon, the United States: |
| | A) | Experienced a bitter, partisan debate over which political party was responsible for the defeat in Southeast Asia. |
| | B) | Undertook a searching, public examination over the causes and lessons of the war. |
| | C) | Went to great lengths to honor those men and women who had served in South Vietnam. |
| | D) | Experienced a form of collective national amnesia about the war. |
| | E) | Extended diplomatic recognition to Vietnam's Communist government. |
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The Vietnam War: |
| | A) | Had very little impact on American foreign policy. |
| | B) | Sparked strong opposition to military intervention abroad. |
| | C) | Created a new foreign policy consensus in the United States. |
| | D) | Fueled support for future interventions in other developing nations. |
| | E) | Led the United States to shift to a completely isolationist foreign policy. |
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In the 1980s, American conservatives argued that: |
| | A) | Future U.S. interventions in developing nations would inevitably follow the disastrous pattern of Vietnam. |
| | B) | American conduct in the Vietnam War had been immoral and must never be repeated. |
| | C) | The Vietnam War had been a noble crusade in which the U.S. had justly fought to prevent South Vietnam from being conquered by external enemies. |
| | D) | The U.S. had no global interests important enough to risk the possibility of becoming bogged down in another Vietnam quagmire. |
| | E) | America should help defend Vietnam from Chinese attacks. |
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According to the author, a full accounting of all Americans Missing in Action (MIA): |
| | A) | Remains impossible because of staunch Vietnamese opposition. |
| | B) | Could be achieved were the American government to make it a priority. |
| | C) | Took place in the late 1970s. |
| | D) | Is virtually impossible given the circumstances under which those soldiers disappeared. |
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In 1993-1994, all of the following supported ending the American economic embargo of Vietnam EXCEPT: |
| | A) | The National Association of Manufacturers. |
| | B) | The Wall Street Journal. |
| | C) | The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. |
| | D) | The American Legion. |
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The United States normalized relations with Vietnam under President: |
| | A) | Gerald Ford. |
| | B) | Jimmy Carter. |
| | C) | Ronald Reagan. |
| | D) | George Bush. |
| | E) | William Clinton. |
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