View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Halberstam say McNamara tried to do with his fact-finding missions to Vietnam?
(a) Publish the truth.
(b) Protect the President.
(c) Conceal the deteriorating conditions.
(d) Provide a forum for dissenting soldiers.

2. How does Halberstam say Lyndon Johnson felt in the Kennedy administration?
(a) He felt like a midwesterner among East-coast men.
(b) He felt like a socialist among capitalists.
(c) He felt like a teacher among his students.
(d) He felt like a relic of previous administrations.

3. What committee had Kennedy served on in the Senate?
(a) Judiciary Committee.
(b) Military Affairs Committee.
(c) Banking and Finance Committee.
(d) Foreign Relations Committee.

4. Whose theories had been used as the basis for expanded militarization in the late 1940s?
(a) George Kennan's.
(b) Chester Bowles'.
(c) Robert McNamara's.
(d) McGeorge Bundy's.

5. When did the problem with the Buddhist monks begin?
(a) November 1962.
(b) March 1961.
(c) May 1963.
(d) April 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Halberstam say McNamara had done while he was at Ford?

2. How big a margin did Kennedy win the presidency by?

3. What does Halberstam say McNamara learned that he had to do in order to argue against nuclear weapons?

4. What position did the Kennedy administration take with regard to nuclear disarmament?

5. Where did the first confrontation take place in Indochina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three plans does Halberstam say the U.S. was considering in Vietnam in 1961?

2. What does Halberstam say was Robert McNamara's background before becoming Secretary of Defense?

3. How did the fall of China and the Cold War affect the Kennedy administration?

4. Who was Kennedy, and how did he become well known?

5. Who was McGeorge Bundy, and what was his role in the Kennedy administration?

6. Why didn't the U.S. gain the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasants?

7. Who was Frederick Nolting, and what was his role in Vietnam?

8. What were Americans beginning to say with regard to Diem after the Buddhist monk problems began?

9. What was McNamara's stance with regard to nuclear weapons?

10. What was the Kennedy administration's stance with regard to Russia?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 853 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample