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America's Longest War, 6e (Herring) Chapter 3 Limited Partnership: Kennedy and Diem, 1) Upon taking office, President John Kennedy met the challenges of the Cold War by A) ordering a buildup of nuclear weapons, modernizing conventional forces, and developing counterinsurgency capabilities. B) ...

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,America's Longest War, 6e (Herring)
Chapter 1 A Dead-End Alley: The United States, France, and the First Indochina War,
1950-1954

1) The French colonial regime in Indochina centered on which of the following missions?
A) Make the colonies and their people integral to France.
B) Keep the colonies at an arm's length from France.
C) Prepare the colony for independence and a lasting alliance.
D) Keep the people of Indochina in a state of desperate poverty.

Answer: A
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2) During World War II, Ho Chi Minh and his Vietminh organization developed the strategy that
would eventually force the French out of Vietnam. It included
A) emphasizing the Vietminh's commitment to Communism and social revolution.
B) tapping Vietnamese nationalism, promising independence, and pledging democratic reforms.
C) fighting other nationalist groups.
D) collaborating with the Japanese.
E) All of these.

Answer: B
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3) This organization helped Ho Chi Minh wage guerrilla war against the Japanese during World
War II.
A) The Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
B) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
C) The KGB
D) The Chinese Nationalist government
E) The British Secret Service

Answer: A
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,4) The French government sought to reassert its authority in Indochina following World War II
for which of the following reasons?
A) Control of Indochina would restore France's faltering prestige.
B) Indochina possessed valuable oil reserves.
C) The French government feared that Vietnam would fall into anarchy in the absence of French
rule.
D) Continued French control of Indochina would prevent the USSR from dominating Southeast
Asia.
E) All of these.

Answer: A
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5) What did U.S. officials recognize with the Japanese takeover of Vietnam in World War II?
A) The region had vast mineral resources.
B) Its people were ideologically aligned with Americans.
C) The region was gateway to China, and the Philippines.
D) The country was central for effective control of Japan.

Answer: C
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6) American officials determined that they could not support Ho Chi Minh for the following
reason.
A) His close ties with Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
B) His steadfast refusal to promise tax-free monopolies for U.S. imports.
C) His deeply held Communist beliefs.
D) His refusal to accept American military aid in 1947.

Answer: C
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7) In 1950, this leader proved crucial for the formal Chinese and Soviet recognition of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Chiang Kai-shek
D) Mao Zedong
E) Josep Tito

Answer: D
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, 8) In 1950, the Truman Administration shifted from pro-French neutrality to outright support for
Paris in its war with the Vietminh because of
A) heightened Cold War fears in the wake of the Soviet Union's detonation of an atomic bomb in
1949.
B) the Communists' victory in the Chinese civil war.
C) the strong realization that the loss of further territory to Communism would come at a steep
domestic political price.
D) the belief that the fall of Indochina to Communism would force resource-starved Japan into
the Communist Bloc.
E) All of these.

Answer: E
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9) Why was the thinking behind the domino theory in American foreign policy fundamentally
flawed?
A) Vietnam was too exhausted from the fighting of World War II to find itself toppled so easily.
B) The revolutions in Southeast Asia were not inspired by ideological leaders in Moscow.
C) The threat of nuclear destruction would have prevented any nation from succumbing to
communism.
D) Moscow and Hanoi had agreed that Vietnam was more useful to Soviet Union as a neutral
nation.

Answer: B
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10) The Bao Dai government that France established in 1950 was notable because
A) it was Vietnam's first truly independent, post-colonial government.
B) American officials unequivocally supported it.
C) it was a puppet government designed to obscure continued direct French control of Vietnam.
D) it was a compromise solution that enjoyed the strong support of Ho Chi Minh.
E) All of these.

Answer: C
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11) As did their predecessors in the Truman Administration, top officials in the Eisenhower
Administration viewed the Vietnamese revolution as
A) part of a larger Communist drive for world domination.
B) an example of Asian enlightenment.
C) a well-intended but economically misguided effort.
D) nationalist first and communist second.
E) analogous to the American Revolution.

Answer: A
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