The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

According to Chapter 18, what historical documents did the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, issued in 1945, borrow from?

By 1954, what percentage of the French war effort in Indochina was the United States financing?

What was the name of the theory mentioned in secret National Security Council memoranda that suggested if one country fell to Communism, others would follow?

According to a U.S. government analyst named Douglas Pike, what was the primary nature of the National Liberation Front (NLF) in Vietnam?

By how much did the number of U.S. military advisers in southern Vietnam increase under President Kennedy from the initial 685 permitted by the Geneva Accords?

What was the name of the incident that President Johnson used to launch a full-scale war on Vietnam in August 1964?

How many American soldiers were in South Vietnam by early 1968?

What was the name of the secret CIA program that, without trial, executed at least twenty thousand civilians in South Vietnam?

In total, how many tons of bombs were dropped on Vietnam by the end of the war, as compared to the total dropped on Europe and Asia in World War II?

The massacre at My Lai 4 occurred on March 16, 1968. What was the fate of Lieutenant William Calley, the only officer found guilty in the incident?

What was President Nixon's stated policy for continuing the war while withdrawing American troops, as described in Chapter 18?

In mid-1965, a leaflet distributed by young blacks in McComb, Mississippi, made what argument about the Vietnam War?

By the end of 1969, how many men nationwide were classified as delinquents by the Selective Service system?

What significant event in the spring of 1970 led to the first general student strike in the history of the United States?

What was the result of a 1971 protest in Washington where twenty thousand people committed civil disobedience to express revulsion against the war?

Who was the Harvard-trained economist and former marine officer who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the press?

A University of Michigan survey cited in the chapter revealed what surprising fact about public opinion on the Vietnam War related to education levels?

By 1971, what was the rate of American soldiers being listed as 'absent without leave'?

What reason did the Pentagon Papers give for the unpopularity of the Saigon government and the success of the National Liberation Front?

What was the initial number of U.S. volunteers for the military in the first six weeks after the declaration of war, compared to the one million men that were needed?

Who were the first two individuals to engage in self-immolation in the United States to protest the Vietnam War in 1965?

What was the stance of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the Vietnam War as declared in early 1966?

How many GI coffeehouses, like the UFO near Fort Jackson, sprang up across the country to support the antiwar movement among soldiers?

What was the term for the incidents in Vietnam where servicemen used fragmentation bombs against their own officers?

What was the conclusion of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey regarding the necessity of the atomic bombs to end the war with Japan?

What was the estimated number of deaths for the Filipinos as a result of the three-year war to crush their rebellion against American rule?

In what city did Ron Kovic and other Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest at the 1972 Republican National Convention, shouting 'Stop the bombing!' during Nixon's speech?

How much of the land in South Vietnam was the Viet Cong distributing to peasants compared to the Saigon government, according to a 1967 secret congressional report?

What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in early 1968?

In the spring of 1968, what decision did President Lyndon Johnson make following the Tet Offensive and Westmoreland's request for 200,000 more troops?

According to a survey by the Urban Research Corporation for the first six months of 1969, how many students had participated in campus protests?

Who were the 'Catonsville Nine'?

By 1973, how had the enrollment in college ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Program) changed since 1966?

What was the significance of the peace settlement signed after the B-52 bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong in late 1972?

According to the Pentagon Papers, what did Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton suggest in 1966 as a strategy to create mass starvation in North Vietnam?

What percentage of the population in August 1965 thought American involvement in Vietnam was not wrong, and how had that figure changed by May 1971?

How many American GIs had received less than honorable discharges in total?

What was journalist Seymour Hersh's role regarding the My Lai massacre?

Why did President Kennedy's administration support the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963?

What percentage of the population thought American involvement in Vietnam was wrong by May 1971?

How many deserters from the U.S. military were there by 1971?

In 1965, how many people gathered on the Boston Common to protest the bombing of North Vietnam, and how did this compare to the number who protested there in October 1969?

What was the official justification given by President Johnson for the bombing of North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident?

How many American and European observers found that the Red Cross was allowed to inspect Vietnamese POW camps during the war?

What was the estimated number of deserters from the U.S. armed forces who crossed into Canada during the Vietnam War?

In Fred Branfman's book 'Voices from the Plain of Jars,' how many tons of bombs were reported to have been dropped on the Plain of Jars in Laos between May 1964 and September 1969?

What happened when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) tried to get federal protection for their Freedom Ride from Nashville to Birmingham?

How did Congress react to President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia in the spring of 1970?

What was the subject of the book 'The Village of Ben Suc' by Jonathan Schell?

What was the final outcome for the North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam according to the peace settlement of 1973?