Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 29

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 29

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Document 29-1: President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam

Document 29-2: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War

Document 29-3: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War

Document 29-4: An American Soldier in Vietnam

Document 29-5: John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War

Question

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. President Kennedy answered Bobbie Lou Pendergrass' question about why the United States was in Vietnam by explaining that her brother and other American soldiers were there to advise the South Vietnamese forces and not to fight the war as combatants.

Question

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. The central piece of evidence McNamara could present to prove that the war was going well for the United States was the large number of enemies killed.

Question

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. While there were historical precedents for desertion, mutiny, and racial conflict in the American military, it had never before struggled with pervasive drug abuse.

Question

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. Woodley described himself as an animal because he viewed his many killings and mutilations as atrocities and crimes against humanity.

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. John Kerry was making the point that the atrocities committed in Vietnam not only affected the victims there but that the American men who had committed them would come home abused, exploited, and angry.

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Correct.
Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. Although John Kerry and Arthur Woodley Jr. ultimately had very different war experiences, they both entered the war believing in the American cause in Vietnam.

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Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. Both John Kennedy and Robert McNamara felt that the future of South Vietnam depended on U.S. involvement.