HIUS 380 Exam III Review Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Which U.S. President provided unlimited funding to Diem's regime in South Vietnam? - Answers
Eisenhower
Which superpowers have the Vietnamese successfully fought against? - Answers The Empire of
Japan, France, the United States, and the People's Republic of China.
Which event caused the need for Graduated Escalation during the Cold War? - Answers The
Cuban Missile Crisis.
What were "Whiz Kids"? - Answers Civilian personnel who were hired by President John F.
Kennedy to use logical analysis and the numbers game as a new method to conduct warfare.
Rolling Thunder - Answers Gradual escalation air campaign aimed at toppling North Vietnamese
infrastructures.
Which operation did Rolling Thunder prelude? - Answers Operation Linebacker
Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. - Answers Air mobility is first used in the Vietnam War. U.S. troops
barely won the battle and eventually airstrikes were needed to destroy enemy positions. The
American Media portrays the battle as an instant success for U.S. forces.
Sigma II-65 - Answers MacNamara sees the futility of a protracted war.
Operation Prairie - Answers U.S. forces successfully combated NVA and Viet Cong fighters in
the coastal regions of South Vietnam.
1967 - Answers Viet Cong fighters retreated for the hills. U.S. and ARVN forces pursue them.
What were the primary failures in the Vietnam War in 1967? - Answers Numbers Game was not
working.
Mass casualties inflected on enemy forces did not reduce fighting.
NVA and VC would launch surprise attacks and set booby traps in the jungles.
(Similarities to RMA policies in Iraq and Afghanistan).
What was the McNamara line? - Answers An area that stretched across the DMZ in which the
U.S. an South Vietnamese placed sensors to track enemy movements.
What was the Marines' CAC initiative? - Answers Combined Action Company
U.S. forces would develop relations with the locals in the region and live in their villages. This
same tactic was used by the Marines during the Filipino Insurgency.
Which U.S. President provided unlimited funding to Diem's regime in South Vietnam? - Answers
Eisenhower
Which superpowers have the Vietnamese successfully fought against? - Answers The Empire of
Japan, France, the United States, and the People's Republic of China.
Which event caused the need for Graduated Escalation during the Cold War? - Answers The
Cuban Missile Crisis.
What were "Whiz Kids"? - Answers Civilian personnel who were hired by President John F.
Kennedy to use logical analysis and the numbers game as a new method to conduct warfare.
Rolling Thunder - Answers Gradual escalation air campaign aimed at toppling North Vietnamese
infrastructures.
Which operation did Rolling Thunder prelude? - Answers Operation Linebacker
Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. - Answers Air mobility is first used in the Vietnam War. U.S. troops
barely won the battle and eventually airstrikes were needed to destroy enemy positions. The
American Media portrays the battle as an instant success for U.S. forces.
Sigma II-65 - Answers MacNamara sees the futility of a protracted war.
Operation Prairie - Answers U.S. forces successfully combated NVA and Viet Cong fighters in
the coastal regions of South Vietnam.
1967 - Answers Viet Cong fighters retreated for the hills. U.S. and ARVN forces pursue them.
What were the primary failures in the Vietnam War in 1967? - Answers Numbers Game was not
working.
Mass casualties inflected on enemy forces did not reduce fighting.
NVA and VC would launch surprise attacks and set booby traps in the jungles.
(Similarities to RMA policies in Iraq and Afghanistan).
What was the McNamara line? - Answers An area that stretched across the DMZ in which the
U.S. an South Vietnamese placed sensors to track enemy movements.
What was the Marines' CAC initiative? - Answers Combined Action Company
U.S. forces would develop relations with the locals in the region and live in their villages. This
same tactic was used by the Marines during the Filipino Insurgency.
