JFK
What things become major factors in politics and elections after 1960?
Media
Where did we put nuclear missiles that angered the USSR?
Turkey
What was the most important factor that we ignored about Vietnam?
Their history of fighting off bigger countries
What did Diem’s poor leadership create?
Vietcong
What is Napalm?
Jellied gasoline, makes liquids flammable
How were JFK’s “Whiz Kids” different from usual advisors and cabinet members?
Businessmen, rather than political
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis regarded as?
Closest Point to Nuclear War
Who gained control of Northern Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh and his Communist group
Who are the Vietcong?
Communist sympathizers in the Southern area that we don’t know who they are
Who was the General in charge of Vietnam?
Westmoreland
Who (allegedly) assassinated JFK and where?
Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas
What did most of the generals want to do in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Blow up Cuba
Who had Vietnam colonized until 1954?
France
What film came out in 1968 glorifying the war in Vietnam?
The Green Berets
Why were we surprised by the Tet Offensive?
Tet is a Vietnamese holiday and we didn’t expect an attack
What did “winning” the space race show symbolically?
We were superior scientifically and technologically
Who was the leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
What was decided in the Geneva Accords?
We would make two countries - Communist in the North and Democracy in the South
Describe Operation Rolling Thunder:
Bombing campaign over North Vietnam, more bombs were dropped than in all of WWII
What is Vietnamization?
Build up the South Vietnamese Army and slowly draw our troops out
Describe the plan and outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Plan was to take Cuban exiles and train them for an invasion to take down Castro. He somehow finds out, moves his air force and is ready for the invasion, so it fails and many are killed an captured. We then had to pay a ransom of medicine and food to get the rest of them released.
Describe what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis, how it was resolved, and the result:
We put missiles in Turkey, so the USSR puts missiles in Cuba. JFK and Khruschev write letters to negotiate taking them out of both countries.
Who is in power in South Vietnam?
Diem
Describe the significance of the incident in the Tonkin Gulf and Resolution that was passed because of it.
We thought that a battleship was attacked by North Vietnam. Congress gives up its war powers in order for Johnson to do as he pleases in Vietnam and he escalates the war
List 3 major tactical problems with the Vietnam War:
. No obvious enemy fronts in a dense jungle
B. No obvious people to protect or enemies to kill
C. No signs of progress to keep soldiers motivated