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A History of the Vietnam War

Provider
Prometric
Format
Single-correct-answer multiple choice with four options
Exam questions
Total questions: 100; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit
2 hours
Passing score
ACE credit recommendation: minimum score 400; institutional credit acceptance remains subject to the receiving institution's policy.
Examination outline
  • Vietnam Before 1940 (5%)
    • Religious and cultural traditions
    • Chinese political and cultural domination
    • A tradition of resistance to invaders
    • French conquest and colonialism
    • Development of nationalism and communism
    • Ho Chi Minh
  • World War II, the Cold War, and the First Indochina War (1940-1955) (9%)
    • Vietnam during World War II
    • Vietnamese declaration of independence
    • Restoration of French rule
    • Global containment
    • Viet Minh military strategies versus French military strategies
    • Eisenhower’s Vietnam policy
    • Dienbienphu
    • The Geneva Conference and American response
  • Diem and Nation-State Building (1955-1963) (10%)
    • U.S. support for Diem
    • Diem’s inadequacies
    • U.S. military and economic assistance
    • The growing Southern insurgency
    • JFK’s commitment to counter-insurgency
    • Internal opposition including the Buddhist crisis
    • The coup against Diem
  • L.B. Johnson Americanizes the War (1964-1965) (10%)
    • Political instability in Vietnam
    • Introduction of the North Vietnamese Army
    • The Tonkin Gulf Incident and Resolution
    • The role of Vietnam in the 1964 Presidential Campaign
    • U.S. air campaign over Vietnam: Flaming Dart to Rolling Thunder
    • Introduction of U.S. combat troops (March through April 1965)
    • Increase in U.S. combat commitment (July 1965)
  • America Takes Charge (1965-1967) (10%)
    • Westmoreland’s strategy of attrition
    • Measures of success
    • The continuing air war
    • The impact of the war on Vietnamese society
    • Stabilization of the Saigon regime
    • America’s army in Vietnam
    • War without fronts: the combat experience
    • Search and destroy Ia Drang Valley
  • Home Front USA (1963-1967) (8%)
    • The Great Society: guns vs. butter
    • The credibility gap
    • Congressional dissent
    • Television and the press
    • The civil rights movement
    • The genesis of the new Left
    • The draft and draft resistance
  • Tet (1968) (9%)
    • Vietnamese planning for the Tet offensive
    • Communist objectives
    • The Tet offensive
    • Reactions in U.S. and Saigon
    • LBJ decides not to run
    • Bombing halt and beginning of peace talks
    • The 1968 election
  • Vietnamizing the War (1969-1973) (10%)
    • Nixon, Kissinger, and Vietnamization
    • Justifications for Vietnamization (troop withdrawal)
    • Pacification and the Phoenix program
    • My Lai and the deterioration of the U.S. military
    • Secret negotiations (1969-1971)
    • The 1972 Spring offensive
    • The October agreement
    • The Christmas bombing
    • Triangular diplomacy: the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China
    • Paris Peace Accords (1973)
  • The War at Home (1968-1972) (8%)
    • Campus unrest
    • Peace activists and moratoria
    • The Miami and Chicago conventions
    • The counterculture, antiwar movement, and silent majority
    • The Pentagon Papers
  • Cambodia and Laos (8%)
    • The Geneva Accords (1954)
    • JFK and Laotian neutrality (1962)
    • Ho Chi Minh Trail
    • The secret war in Laos
    • Sihanouk and Cambodia’s neutrality
    • Lon Nol and the U.S. incursion
    • The secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia
    • The Khmer Rouge and the fall of Phnom Penh (1975)
    • The communist victory in Laos
  • “A Decent Interval” (8%)
    • The cease-fire violations
    • Watergate and Nixon’s resignation
    • Congressional passage of the War Powers Act
    • The Great Spring Offensive
    • The fall of Saigon
  • U.S. Legacies and Lessons (5%)
    • Impact of the war on Vietnam
    • The impact of the Vietnam Syndrome on American foreign policy
    • The experience of returning vets
    • Economic consequences
    • The impact on the U.S. military
    • The impact on the media
    • POWs and MIAs
    • Collective national amnesia
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