The Tough Questions
Thich Quang Duc was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who gained international attention to the religious persecution in Vietnam by ________________.
Burning himself alive with gasoline
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This form of protest involves people entering a place, sitting down, and refusing to move.
What is a sit-in?
Sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
This theory suggested that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism, the rest would follow.
What is Domino Theory?
By the 1980s, this superpower provided 90% of North Vietnam's oil, steel, and cotton imports, plus $6.6 billion in total aid, effectively making Vietnam a proxy war and client state.
What is the USSR?
This 1954 case declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This tactic involves refusing to buy goods or services to force policy changes.
What is a boycott?
The first Indochina War was fought between who?
The Vietnamese and the French (The US did help fund/supply the French)
Allied with the US, this dictator led religious persecution of the Buddhist population, Rigging of elections, and military advancement by religion.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
This doctrine declared that nations must be "responsible for their own defense," representing a fundamental shift from the Truman Doctrine and making Vietnamization inevitable regardless of domestic anti-war pressure.
What is the Nixon Doctrine?
This 1964 law banned segregation in public accommodations and outlawed employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1969 occupation of a former federal prison lasted 19 months and inspired "Red Power."
What is the Alcatraz Island Occupation?
This 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops became a symbol of the war's brutality.
What is the Mai Lai Massacre?
This Nixon strategy involved removing U.S. troops and training South Vietnamese to fight for themselves.
What is Vietnamization?
This event caused Americans to question the success of the US military in Vietnam. What they saw on television, did not match what President Johnson had been saying.
The Tet Offensive
This 1965 law prohibited discrimination at voting polls and outlawed literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This August 1963 demonstration drew over 200,000 people and featured the "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This toxic herbicide was used to defoliate forests that protected the Viet Cong.
What is Agent Orange?
This term described the growing disconnect between what the Johnson administration told the American public about Vietnam and the actual reality on the ground.
What is the credibility gap?
This South Vietnamese president's inflexible "Four Nos" policy prevented political compromise after 1973 and contributed to his country's collapse by refusing negotiations, coalition government, communist activities, and territorial concessions.
Who is Nguyen Van Thieu?
Law enforcement must warn a person of their constitutional rights before interrogating them when they are in custody, or else the person's statements cannot be used as evidence against them at their trial.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This organization, symbolized by young militant African Americans, protected urban neighborhoods and created antipoverty programs.
What are the Black Panthers?
Undercover soldiers in South Vietnam that support the efforts of the North. Used guerilla warfare tactics (camouflage and surprise attacks)
Who were the Viet Cong?
What move by the Nixon administration resulted in the Kent and Jackson State protests?
The expansion of the war into neighboring Laos and Cambodia. (US military was trying to damage the Ho Chi Minh Trail)