Question

What were the Pentagon Papers?

A] an agreement for a cease-fire and a U.S. troop withdrawal from South Vietnam


B] a classified government history of American involvement in Vietnam


C] a plan for gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam


D] a restriction on the President’s war-making powers

Answer 1

B

Top-secret documents, published by The New York Times in 1971, that showed the blunders and deceptions that led the United States into the Vietnam War.