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Test your knowledge of the Vietnam War with this free quiz. These Vietnam War questions cover the causes of the conflict, major battles, key leaders, American involvement, and the antiwar movement at home. See how much you know about one of the most consequential conflicts of the Cold War era.

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1. Question

What was the name given to communist insurgents fighting in South Vietnam?

2. Question

Which incident in 1964 led the United States to send more troops to Vietnam?

3. Question

Which aerial bombardment campaign in 1972 involved the largest number of heavy bomber raids by the American Air Force since World War II?

4. Question

US forces used which chemical agent to defoliate large swaths of Vietnam?

5. Question

As part of the Vietnam War, the United States also bombed what other Southeast Asian country?

6. Question

Which town was the location of an infamous war crime where American forces slaughtered Vietnamese civilians in 1968?

7. Question

Which 1969 battle resulted in US forces capturing terrain with little strategic value and then abandoning it?

8. Question

Which battle resulted in the withdrawal of French forces from Vietnam in 1954?

9. Question

Which statesman served as president of the Republic of Vietnam between 1955 and 1963?

10. Question

Which of the following Cold War policies held that if one country became communist, all the other adjacent nations would be threatened as well?

11. Question

Which president coined the term “silent majority”?

12. Question

Which of the following methods did anti-war activists use to voice their opposition to the Vietnam War?

13. Question

Which battle in 1963 resulted in a small Viet Cong force repulsing an attack by a large South Vietnamese army group that included armored personnel carriers and helicopters?

14. Question

Which battle in 1965 was an inconclusive engagement between US air cavalry forces and North Vietnamese troops.

15. Question

The Tet Offensive had which of the following consequences?

16. Question

What were students at Kent State University protesting when National Guardsmen opened fire on them in 1970?

17. Question

How was President Nixon’s policy of Vietnamization implemented?

18. Question

Which diplomat represented the United States at the Paris Peace Talks in 1973?

19. Question

What did the Paris Peace Talks of 1973 accomplish?

20. Question

When did Saigon fall to North Vietnamese troops?

21. Question

Which of the following countries provided military assistance to the South Vietnamese?

22. Question

Which of the following countries provided the most military and economic assistance to the North Vietnamese?

23. Question

Which city was the former imperial capital of Vietnam and was the site of heavy fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive?

24. Question

Which general led US forces in Vietnam between 1964 and 1968?

25. Question

Which US Senator was an early opponent of the Vietnam War and published a critique called The Arrogance of Power?

26. Question

Which statesman was the US ambassador to South Vietnam during the 1963 coup and refused to help the embattled ruler?

27. Question

President Johnson declared that he lost “middle America” when which famous broadcast journalist declared the Vietnam War had become a quagmire in 1968?

28. Question

What were the Pentagon Papers?

29. Question

Which tribesmen lived in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and cooperated with US Special Forces during the war?

30. Question

Who was the commander of the Vietnam People’s Army (NVA)?

31. Question

What was the name of the secret CIA effort to kill or capture Viet Cong agents?

32. Question

Which of the following Southeast Asian countries also succumbed to a Communist revolution after American forces left Vietnam?