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Chapter 15.3 Practice

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

What selective service system supplied soldiers for the war?
a.
the draft
c.
the counterculture
b.
the silent majority
d.
the Pentagon
 

 2. 

Much of the division in America created by the war resulted from the
a.
silent majority.
c.
generation gap.
b.
new offensive.
d.
credibility gap.
 

 3. 

The American commander in Vietnam was
a.
Richard J. Daley.
c.
Hubert H. Humphrey.
b.
Eugene McCarthy.
d.
William Westmoreland.
 

 4. 

Who was not a presidential hopeful in 1968?
a.
Eugene McCarthy
c.
Lyndon B. Johnson
b.
Robert F. Kennedy
d.
Hubert H. Humphrey
 

 5. 

What presidential candidate claimed to represent the silent majority?
a.
George C. Wallace
c.
Eugene McCarthy
b.
Richard M. Nixon
d.
Robert F. Kennedy
 

Completion
Complete each statement.
 

 6. 

Antiwar demonstrators called President Johnson and his supporters ____________________.
 

 

 7. 

The Vietcong attacked ____________________, the ancient capital of Vietnam.
 

 

 8. 

The series of attacks that began on ____________________, caused many more Americans to oppose the Vietnam War.
 

 

 9. 

The Johnson administration developed a ____________________—fewer people trusted its statements about the war.
 

 

 10. 

At the _________________________, antiwar protestors confronted Chicago police.
 

 

Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
George C. Wallace
d.
doves
b.
hawks
e.
deferment
c.
draft cards
 

 11. 

inspired Congressional law
 

 12. 

opponents of Vietnam War
 

 13. 

supporters of Vietnam War
 

 14. 

excused from draft
 

 15. 

"law and order" candidate
 

Short Answer
 

 16. 

What was the movement that rejected traditional American values?
 

 17. 

Many who opposed the draft argued that deferments discriminated against what group?
 

 18. 

In October 1967 more than 50,000 war protestors marched to what government building?
 

 19. 

What is Tet?
 

 20. 

What did Eugene McCarthy’s surprisingly strong showing in the Democratic primary indicate about voters’ opinions?
 



 
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