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Question 1.1. (TCO 6) What common name was given by Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, to describe a beginning threat to the world order? (Points : 5)The Danger on the HorizonThe Avoidable CrisisThe Bamboo CurtainThe Iron CurtainFear Itself 

 

Question 2.2. (TCOs 6, 10) President Eisenhower used a metaphorical figure of speech to describe the danger of Communism. That metaphor was what? (Points : 5)... moving like a freight train... an evil empire... like a thief in the night... be swept away by the red tide of communism... fall like dominoes 

 

Question 3.3. (TCO 9) The Tet Offensive began on January 30, 1968. Why was it called by that name? (Points : 5)The name "Tet" celebrates a historic resistance victory over Chinese invaders in the 14th Century.The name "Tet" refers to the lunar new year in Vietnamese culture, and the lunar new year began on that date."Tet" was the region where the first assaults were made."Tet" was a major strategic goal of the National Liberation Front forces."Tet" refers to the seasonal change that occurs right after the monsoon rains. 

 

Question 4.4. (TCO 8) What colloquial term was used in The Great War to describe the effects of what was later given the clinical name post-traumatic stress disorder? (Points : 5)Shell shockCrippling anxietyCritical incident stress disorderHomecoming maladjustmentInterrupted maturity development 

 

Question 5.5. (TCO 1, 9) Choose the title of the classic military warfare book written by Carl von Clausewitz, in which the term "fog of war" was coined. (Points : 5)Brothers in ArmsThe Gallic WarsOn WarThe Peloponnesian WarThe Third Reich 

 

Question 6.6. (TCO 6) In what year did Bernard Baruch make his famous speech in which fear of the Soviet Union's world motives for communist domination and the competitive atmosphere was given the moniker "The Cold War?" (Points : 5)19441945194719491950

 

 

Question 7.7. (TCOs 1, 3, 7) Trusting relationships and alliances based on mutual interest and perceived trustworthiness of the participating parties are called by what term? (Points : 5)Fiduciary relationshipsTemporary arrangementsAlliances of common purposeFrail and vulnerableAlliances of convenience 

 

Question 8.8. (TCO 6) The Cold War was fought without direct confrontation of the major nations but instead through a series of proxy wars and incidents in which they engaged each other indirectly. The Vietnam War was such a proxy war. Which one of the following was NOT a proxy war or incident of the Cold War? (Points : 5)Capturing the USS PUEBLO in 1968The dissolution of the British empireThe space race beginning in 1957The Cuban missle crisis of 1962The Berlin airlift operation of 1949 

 

Question 9.9. (TCO 9) The Gulf of Tonkin incident, leading to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, involved what U. S. Navy warship? (Points : 5)USS ENTERPRISEUSS MADDOXUSS YORKTOWNUSS VICTORYUSS OLYMPIA 

 

Question 10.10. (TCO 3) What was the planned result of The Geneva Accords of 1954? (Points : 5)An eventual division of Vietnam at the 13th parallel

National elections in July 1956A temporary division of Vietnam at the 20th parallelLegitimacy of a separate and permanent government in southern VietnamImmediate replacement of French forces with multinational forces 

 

Question 11.11. (TCO 9) Which Secretary of Defense served under both President Kennedy and President Johnson? (Points : 5)Dean RuskRobert McNamaraWilliam WaylandDean AchesonHenry Cabot Lodge 

 

Question 12.12. (TCOs 7, 8) What was the purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973? (Points : 5)To exercise financial control over the budget of the Defense DepartmentTo authorize the president to enforce the terms of the Paris Accords of 1972To exert influence over the resignation of President Nixon in 1974To restrict the power of the president to commit forces overseas without the advice and consent of CongressTo include Congress as a participant in the National Command Authority 

 

Question 13.13. (TCOs 3, 4) The 17th parallel served what intended purpose in the Geneva Accords of 1954? (Points : 5)The designated location of the Demilitarized ZoneA temporary boundary between the two regroupment zones of forcesProtection of the historic city of Hue from the fightingAllowed families to reunite and resettleResumption of rice farming, which was needed for the food supplies and for export 

 

Question 14.14. (TCO 5) Who was Ho Chi Minh's leading military commander against French forces and later against American forces? (Points : 5)General Vo Nguyen GiapGeneral Dien Bien PhuGeneral Nguyen Cao KyPrince Norodom SihanoukGeneral Nguyen Sinh Cung 

 

Question 15.15. (TCOs 3, 7) What collective secrity agreement was used to justify American involvement in Southeast Asia? (Points : 5)The UNANZUSMAAGSEATOMACV 

 

Question 16.16. (TCOs 5, 6, 10) The United States Constitution specifies in Article II, Section 2, that the president holds what authority in relationship to the armed forces? (Points : 5)Commander-in-chiefAuthority over state governors concerning use of their militia forcesThe authority over state governors to cause federal forces to be deployed to other locations within the United StatesThe general of the armiesThe authority to promote officers and to withhold promotions at will 

 

Question 17.17. (TCO 7) A collective security arrangement to be called the League of Nations was proposed at the Treaty of Versailles peace conference. Which president proposed it? (Points : 5)Franklin Delano RooseveltWoodrow WilsonWarren G. HardingHerbert HooverTheodore Roosevelt 

 

Question 18.18. (TCOs 9, 10) Dr. Henry Kissinger served as Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon. From what type of background did Kissinger come to that service? (Points : 5)A senior executive in the aerospace industryA leading military theorist and strategist in a civilian think tankDiplomatic corps service in AsiaThe personal recommendation of President Johnson, for whom Dr. Kissinger had sometimes served as an advisorA Harvard University professor who had written extensively on national security issues 

 

Question 19.19. (TCO 4) Who was in military command of Vietminh forces at the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the spring of 1954? (Points : 5)Vo Nguyen GiapHo Chi MinhChiang Kai-shekChung Hee ParkDong Minh Hoi 

 

Question 20.20. (TCOs 1, 6, 7, 10) When the new Defense Secretary Clark Clifford raised fundamental questions about the American war policy, what did he discover? (Points : 5)That there was the need for a single joint commander in VietnamThat plans were fragmented in a way that prevented the different services from operating effectively with one anotherThat when his list of nine questions could not be answered, there was actually no military plan for victoryThat the Vietnamese forces could not operate effectively, because they were deployed far from their homesThat reserve forces had not been called up in an appropriate manner 

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Question 1. 1. (TCOs 3, 6) Once Bernard Baruch had identified and named the situation called the "Cold War" in his 1947 speech, it became the ideological underpinning of national foreign strategy of the United States and its allied nations. This strategy came to be called "containment."What was President Eisenhower's metaphor for the threat of global communism? Explain the metaphor's impact in developing and sustaining the Cold War foreign policy of the United States. 

(Points : 50) 

 

 

Question 2. 2. (TCOs 7, 8, 9) Our course asked a question of both Vietnam and the United States: Who owns this war?In two paragraphs, analyze and then explain your analysis of how the United States took ownership of the Vietnam War under President Johnson. 

Be sure to speak to which factors were so important in the Americanization process, with some specific examples of what worked and what did not work. 

Then, in a third paragraph, evaluate how the personality and intentions of President Johnson impacted the direction and pace of the escalation of conflict in Vietnam. 

(Points : 50) 

 

 

Question 3. 3. (TCO 1) Historians read and research through three kinds of sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.For this question, your assignment is to work with SECONDARY SOURCES.

Discuss the meaning and identity of this type of source, with TWO examples of secondary sources as you met them in our class. How do you identify secondary sources when reading and in the media? 

Then, explain what authority they hold for the study of history:– Why is that authority valued within the three types?– What about secondary sources limits their value and usefulness when studying history?– What service is provided by this type that the other two types cannot provide? 

 

(Points : 30) 

 

 

Question 4. 4. (TCOs 4, 6) U. S. policy makers serving under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson counted on some basic assumptions about the nature of North Vietnam that eventually proved false and led to a stalemate with the enemy. What was the significant assumption about North Vietnam that was overlooked and never confronted? (Points : 40) 

 

 

Question 5. 5. (TCO 10) Throughout our course we have sought to learn lessons from history, and there have been a lot of them!In two paragraphs, choose two lessons you learned from the overall topic of settling and living as an outsider in foreign lands. Express the significance of what you learned about them in terms of the foreign policy of France. 

Finally, what can be done in this world to take those lessons seriously and remember them?