Hoa Summer

Explain the "world view" of the United States in regard to aid to South Vietnam between 1956 and

November, 1963. What remained consistent about US policy in the region? What changed?

3. How did the war in Vietnam affect the American presidential election of 1964?

4. What would the Johnson-initiated bombing of North Vietnam hope to accomplish? What actually

happened?

5. How did Johnson's "successful" intervention in the Dominican Republic encourage a similar involvement in Vietnam?

6. How did American effort to deter war in the Middle East in 1967 reveal the limits of our power? Of the Soviet's power?

7. DeGaulle proved prophetic. What were the results of Israel's "victory" in the Six-Day War of 1967?

8. In 'waging war" on multiple fronts in the 1960s, the US significantly redefined its vital interests. How did these vital interests come to be defined in 1965? How did the questioning of American society change the answers to America's new vital interests?

9. Was Johnson correct in claiming his containment policies were a logical outgrowth of those of his

predecessors? Why or why not?

Chapter 12: Nixon, Détente, and the Debacle in Vietnam (pages224-253)

1. Discuss each of the options regarding the Vietnam conflict available to Nixon when he took office in 1969 including the problems each entailed.

2. Why does Ambrose conclude that Nixon's policy of Vietnamization was a "disastrous choice?"

3. Explain Kissinger's policy of "linkage" and why it was a failure.

4. Kissinger sought, through détente and linkage, to accomplish an "all-encompassing agreement (with Russia) that would bring worldwide, permanent peace." Discuss each of the following policies and their results:

a. Arms Control:

b. Diplomacy on Russia's borders:

c. China policy:

d. Berlin Accord 1971:

e. Helsinki Accords 1972:

f. Okinawa:

5. Discuss the successes and failures of Nixon's tactics to create an opportunity to withdraw from Vietnam.

6. Explain the issues that prolonged