1. When the Vietnam War ended...

Question

a) Many Americans wanted to return and win
b) Many Vietnamese wanted to leave the county for the safety of America
c) Many people still trusted the government and its decisions

A: b?

2. Roughly how many soldiers were killed in the Vietnam War?

A: 60,000

3. What country controlled Vietnam before the Vietnam War?

A: France

4. True or false: the death of Kennedy moved the country into a new time period where people questioned things more.

A: True

5. True or false: President Johnson did win reelection in 1964.

A: true

6. True or false: President Johnson thought the Vietnam War was going well enough that he decided to run for reelection in 1968.

A: False

7. Why did the Vietnam War become increasingly unpopular to the point that every presidential candidate had plans to leave the war without victory?

A: The Vietnam War became increasingly unpopular for two reasons. The first reason was the use of the draft. Many people did not want to fight in a war that they did not necessarily believe in. It was also very difficult for people to watch their friends and loved ones be forced into a war that they knew they would likely not returned from or possibly be killed in. Another reason the Vietnam War became so unpopular was the Tet Offensive, a series of major attacks by Vietnamese communist troops in the Vietnam War. Although American troops were able to push the Vietnamese back, it cost many American lives and made it seem to citizens that the war could not be won. Newscaster Walter Cronkite reinforced this idea in citizen's heads by saying that the United States was at "a stalemate," meaning that the U.S. could not longer win the war but could continue to fight and, in turn, lose more American men.

Answer 1

All your answers are correct! The
"official" number for #2 is 58,000 American troops. Millions of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians died in the conflict, too.

On question #7, your text may not say so, but many Americans also began to realize that the conflict in Vietnam was more a civil war than it was about communism versus capitalism. Yes, North Vietnam was communist and backed, to some extent, by the U.S.S.R., but the war was more about uniting North and South Vietnam than it was a threat to the United States. Therefore, many Americans began to feel that it was not worth the cost in lives and money to us.

Answer 2

Wait, what?