Causes of the Vietnam War
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Trends and beliefs that go against the "norm"
What is counterculture?
Another name for the Vietnam War because Americans would see footage of the horrible war every night
What was the "TV War"?
Idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the rest of Asia
What is the Domino Theory?
This was a system where young men were randomly chosen to join the military
What was the draft?
Trends and beliefs that are most widely accepted
What is mainstream?
This was used by communist North Vietnam to send supplies to the South
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
To stop the spread of communism
What was containment?
This gave LBJ power to escalate forces and military action in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The communist rebels in South Vietnam
What is Viet Cong?
The free concert attended by half a million hippies
What was Woodstock?
The airplane used to wipe out North Vietnamese supply lines
What was the B-52 Bomber?
What the government says is happening was different from what Americans ACTUALLY saw was happening = less trust
What was the credibility gap?
Supposedly, North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. Navy ships
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
The bombing campaign of North Vietnam
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
This invention spurred the Sexual Revolution and Free Love movement of the 1960s and 70s
What was the birth control pill?
The weapon used to wipe out Vietcong hiding in the jungle with their booby traps
What was napalm?
Transferring the responsibility of the war from the Americans to the South Vietnamese
What was Vietnamization?
The agreement that divided Vietnam in half and have free elections to re-unify (USA claims they did not sign it)
What was the Geneva Accords?
Communist attack across Vietnam during the New Year and it made Americans realize they were losing the war
What is the Tet Offensive?
Americans who burned their draft cards and refused to serve
What are draft dodgers?
A form of 'all-out war' using ambushes and booby traps
What was guerilla warfare?
Top secret report that revealed US gov't had been lying about the Vietnam War
What was the Pentagon Papers?