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The Fog of War: Film Companion Questions

Due Friday, November 6, 2015

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Please use your best handwriting.

· What will any military commander who is honest with himself admit?

· If you make one mistake with nuclear weapons what will occur?

· What does McNamara consider his personal rule?

· What is lesson #1?

· What “emotion” does McNamara say Thompson was exhibiting towards Khrushchev?

· What is Lesson #2?

· What does McNamara believe got the United States out of nuclear war?

· What danger exists today?

· What will destroy nations?

· What celestial body did Kennedy’s advisors believe the USSR would test nuclear weapons behind?

· What is Lesson #3?

· What is Lesson #4?

· How many Japanese people were burned to death in one night in March 1945?

· What is Lesson #5?

· What is Lesson #6?

· What halted the “pull out” of the United States personnel in Vietnam?

· What is Lesson #7?

· What did President Johnson believe about the North Vietnamese after the August “attacks?”

· What operation was introduced in Vietnam that dropped 2 to 3 times as many bombs as were dropped on Western Europe in all of WWII?

· What did McNamara say was not primarily a military problem?

· What was the prerequisite to winning the hearts and minds of the people of South Vietnam?

· What does President Johnson say America declared war on?

· What did the United States’s government not do in Vietnam that it had done in the Cuban Missile Crisis that lead to total misunderstanding?

· What type of war did the Vietnamese perceive they were fighting despite American views that it was just an element of the Cold War?

· What is Lesson #8?

· What is Lesson #9?

· What is Lesson #10?

· Who does McNamara point to as responsible for war?

· What was Lesson #11?

· What is the “fog of war?”