Homework Chapter 29
Answer both the Short Answer and the Review Questions; the vocabulary has been provided for you to study. Submit your answers to the Dropbox labeled Chapter 29 Homework. I will provide answers to you after your submission for you to use to study. You will be graded on your effort. By submitting the work, you are agreeing that this is your work and you have not worked with another student or copied their work. You may submit up to the deadline but NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)
- Why did Kennedy believe the engagement in Vietnam was crucial to his foreign policy? (pp. 971-977)
- Why did massive amounts of airpower and ground troops fail to bring U.S. victory in Vietnam? (pp. 978-982)
Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple-choice questions)
- What was the objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961?
- Describe the outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- Why did East Germany erect a wall between East and West Berlin in 1961?
- Describe the thirteen-day Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
- How did the Cuban missile crisis affect the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev?
- Why, despite $1 billion in aid and seven hundred U.S. military advisers committed by the Eisenhower administration, was the situation in South Vietnam still so unstable when President Kennedy took office?
- What was the flaw in American officials’ assumption that the U.S. military’s superior technology and power would defeat the Communist forces in South Vietnam?
- What was the purpose of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
- What led Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964?
- What did the initiation of Operation Rolling Thunder in February 1965 indicate?
- Why did American military officials begin calculating their progress in body counts and kill ratios in Vietnam in 1965?
- Who constituted about 80 percent of American troops in Vietnam?
- By 1968, what was the impact of the Vietnam War on the South Vietnamese people?
- In 1965, who organized the first major protest in the United States against the Vietnam War?
- What was the impact of the American movement to stop the Vietnam War?
- What was one of the practical arguments made by protesters against the Vietnam War?
- How did the FBI involve itself in the peace movement during the Vietnam War?
- By early 1968, what position did Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara had come to what conclusion about the Vietnam War?
- What happened during the Tet Offensive of January 1968?
- What made the Tet Offensive an important turning point for President Lyndon Johnson?
- What did the “Vietnamization” of the Vietnam War in 1968 demonstrate about the United States?
- What happened shortly after peace negotiations for the war in Southeast Asia began in Paris in May 1968?
- What was the result of the U.S. policy of détente with the Soviet Union?
- Why were the Helsinki accords of 1975 controversial?
- Which nation seized the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and West Bank after winning the Six-Day War in 1967?
- What actions by the Nixon administration resulted in the Arab nations launching an oil embargo against the United States in 1973?
- How did Lieutenant William Calley deal a severe blow to the Nixon administration’s Vietnam policy?
- What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War in Vietnam itself?
- What does the War Powers Act of 1973 stipulate?
- How did many of the returning veterans of the Vietnam War feel?
