U.S. Government
Containing the spread of this was the main goal of the United States in Vietnam.
What is Communism?
This person served as the commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Who was William Westmoreland?
In the early years of the war, a young man could automatically be deferred from this by enrolling in college.
What is the draft?
This enabled North Vietnam to send troops to South Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Americans who supported strong U.S. military efforts in Vietnam were called this.
What are hawks?
This president used the Tonkin Gulf incident as an excuse to deepen U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the name of the Vietnamese forces that were supported by American troops.
What is the Army of the Republic of Vietnam?
This set off the first general student strike in U.S. history.
What is the invasion of Cambodia?
South Vietnamese citizens who fought against the South Vietnamese government and American forces were known as this.
Who were the Vietcong?
The main purpose of this act was to restrict the power of the president.
What is the War Powers Act?
This U.S. president was responsible for the Vietnamization of the war.
Who was Richard Nixon?
After World War II, the United States aided this country in its efforts to keep control of Vietnam.
What is France?
Founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, this group charged that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society?
This was the Communist leader of the Vietnamese struggle against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
If one country falls to communism, others in the region will fall, too, is the basis of this theory.
What is the domino theory?
This person was the top U.S. negotiator on Vietnam during Nixon’s presidency.
Who was Henry Kissinger?
This leaf-killing toxic chemical was deployed in Vietnam and would have lasting effects both on the locals and U.S. Veterans for years to come.
This organization led by Mario Savio focused its criticism on the nation’s faceless and powerful institutions.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
This was the Communist group that took control of Cambodia in 1975.
What was the Khmer Rouge?
This person believed it was unfair that African Americans were fighting for a country that treated them unfairly at home.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This person was the Secretary of Defense under President Johnson.
Who was Robert McNamara?
U.S. soldiers conducted these, uprooting civilians with suspected ties to the Vietcong, killing their livestock, and burning villages.
What are search-and-destroy missions?
The Johnson administration’s efforts to mislead the American people were revealed by the publication of this.
What were the Pentagon Papers?
This political organization's goal was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule.
What is the Vietminh?
On May 4, 1970, the National Guard fired live ammunition into a crowd of campus protesters, wounding nine people and killing four, including two who had not even participated in the rally at this Ohio school.
What is Kent State University?