A) They were satisfied with and proud of the job they had done in Southeast Asia and happy to return home.
B) They felt betrayed by the government for not allowing them to win the war,and by their countrymen for their lack of support for the war.
C) They became some of the primary organizers of antiwar protests and riots in major cities and on many college campuses.
D) They became politically active in support of laws that would control U.S.involvement in foreign conflicts.
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A) the payment of millions of dollars of aid to the North Vietnamese.
B) the replacement of U.S.forces with intensified bombing.
C) a decrease in the bombing of North Vietnam in order to foster goodwill for negotiations.
D) an intensive propaganda campaign in South Vietnamese newspapers and television.
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A) A high number of North Vietnamese soldiers were being killed in battle.
B) There was a disproportionately high death rate among white soldiers who were serving in Vietnam.
C) There was a disproportionately high death rate among black soldiers who were serving in Vietnam.
D) More officers than enlisted men were being killed in combat in Vietnam.
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A) authorize the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
B) empower the House of Representatives to pass all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the United States.
C) permit the Senate to pass all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the United States.
D) acknowledge the president's authority to issue a declaration of war without the consent of Congress in an emergency situation.
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A) It backed down,pledging to limit its ICBM program.
B) It stepped up its own ICBM program.
C) It declared war on the United States.
D) It relinquished control of its Eastern European satellite countries.
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A) A secret government study critical of U.S.policy in Vietnam
B) A collection of pro-war propaganda that had been funneled to the New York Times since 1964
C) Top-secret military planning documents that had been leaked to North Vietnam
D) A government study that ultimately increased public support for the war in Vietnam
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A) It left him more powerful than ever in the Soviet Union.
B) It contributed to his fall from power two years later.
C) It encouraged him to hold open elections to determine his successor.
D) It allowed him to pass a number of reform measures.
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A) Reliable information that North Vietnamese gunboats had fired on two U.S.destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
B) Unconfirmed information that North Vietnamese gunboats had fired on two U.S.destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
C) The destruction of two U.S.ships by the Chinese in the Gulf of Tonkin
D) A fabricated story about an attack on U.S.naval vessels by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin
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A) made refugees of nearly 30 percent of the South Vietnamese people.
B) infused billions of American dollars into South Vietnamese industries.
C) reduced the South Vietnamese government's dependence on foreign aid.
D) resulted in the death of nearly 60 percent of the population of South Vietnam.
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A) Middle-class Americans
B) Upper-class Americans
C) Poor and working-class Americans
D) African Americans
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A) George Wallace
B) Hubert Humphrey
C) Eugene McCarthy
D) Spiro Agnew
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A) It got most American adults involved in politics for the first time.
B) It created domestic problems that distracted the Johnson administration and prolonged the war.
C) It brought the war to the center of media attention and severely limited the Johnson administration's options.
D) It upset the majority of Americans and spurred massive protests to show widespread support for Cold War objectives.
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A) A chemical agent deployed by the United States during the Vietnam War
B) A chemical agent deployed by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War
C) The name of the most successful U.S.mission during the Vietnam War
D) A nickname U.S.soldiers called President Nixon during the Vietnam War
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A) A delegation of American soldiers had asked for concrete measures that they could readily understand.
B) It was impossible to measure military success based on territory seized.
C) They did not want to reveal the unprecedented number of soldiers they were losing.
D) It was the only way they could distinguish between military and civilian deaths.
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A) It revealed that he had ignored intelligence that warned the attack was imminent.
B) It revealed his inexperience with military matters and lost him support in the Pentagon.
C) It underscored the credibility gap between official statements and the war's actual progress.
D) It forced the president to cancel a planned visit to South Vietnam to discuss a cease-fire.
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A) The war could not be won at a bearable cost.
B) No country has the right to interfere in the government of another.
C) The Vietnamese people had suffered unfairly.
D) The logic driving the Cold War was fundamentally unsound.
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A) both civil rights and antiwar activists.
B) New Englanders in particular.
C) those who were outraged by assaults on traditional values by students and others.
D) black southerners who believed that the War on Poverty had stigmatized them.
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A) It allowed him to choose between sending the National Guard and sending the regular army into situations requiring military force.
B) It gave Congress the option to choose between raising and lowering defense spending.
C) It met his demand for a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action.
D) It pertained to the number of missiles the United States would launch in response to a Soviet attack.
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A) A continued presence would enable Communist violence.
B) Vietnamization would strengthen allegiance to the United States among the Vietnamese.
C) Immediate withdrawal would allow U.S.enemies to ally with South Vietnam.
D) Immediate withdrawal would lead to increased violence in other places where the U.S.military was present.
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A) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
B) Students for a Democratic Society
C) The National Organization for Women
D) The Communist party
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