26. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 26: Debating the Vietnam War

**Quiz for Document 26.2: Lyndon Johnson, “Peace without Conquest” Speech at Johns Hopkins University (April 7, 1965)**

Quiz for Document 26.2: Lyndon Johnson, “Peace without Conquest” Speech at Johns Hopkins University (April 7, 1965)

Document 26.2: Lyndon Johnson, “Peace without Conquest” Speech at Johns Hopkins University (April 7, 1965)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 26.4

1. How does Lyndon Johnson’s stated attitude about the Vietnam War in this speech compare to the one he articulated in his phone conversation with Senator Russell?

Johnson states definitively in this speech that the Vietnam War is important and that American involvement is necessary.

Johnson reveals similar ambivalence about the mission but argues that the United States must continue what it has started.

Johnson expresses more ambivalence about the mission and expresses the hope that the United States can negotiate a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

Johnson states definitively in this speech that the United States should not get involved in Vietnam.

Question 26.5

2. In this speech, Lyndon Johnson expresses the opinion that Americans’ victory over the Communists in Vietnam will

be quick and easy, since it is a small country with a weak army.

take several years but cause relatively few American casualties.

be primarily a culture war to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese.

be difficult because the North Vietnamese are brutal and have support in South Vietnam.

Question 26.6

3. In this speech, President Johnson suggests that Americans have a responsibility to fight a war in Vietnam for the same reasons that they had a responsibility to fight in

Pennsylvania in the 1770s.

Virginia in the 1860s.

France in 1918.

Europe in the 1940s.

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