Important Terms
Important People
Events of the Cold War
Legislation
Misc. Vietnam Years Stuff
100
On January 27, 1973, the U.S. signed a _______________ agreement called the Paris Peace Accords
What is a cease-fire?
100
One of the leading Vietnamese nationalists
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
100
Barrier of concrete and barbed wire between East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
Banned the testing of new nuclear weapons about ground.
What is the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
100
Guerilla forces supplied and funded by North Vietnamese Communists
What is the Vietcong?
200
Fear that is one country became Communist, nearby countries would also
What is the domino theory?
200
Republican nominee who promised to restore order to American society and bring "peace with honor" to Vietnam.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
Occurred when American U-2 spy planes discovered Soviets installing nuclear weapons above ground.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
Sent volunteers to developing countries to help with digging wells and building schools.
What is the Peace Corps?
300
Members of a counterculture that emphasized individual freedom, nonviolence, and communal sharing
What are hippies?
300
Committed to the Cold War policy of stopping the spread of communism.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
300
During the Space Race, he was one of the first people to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
Requires the president to get congressional approval before committing U.S. troops to an armed struggle.
What is the War Powers Act?
300
A black granite memorial listing the names of the dead and missing American soldiers.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
400
The strategy of pulling out U.S. troops and allowing the South Vietnamese army to take over the fighting
What is vietnamization?
400
Cuban rebel who led a revolution against an unpopular dictator.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
During the Space Race, he was the first people to travel into space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
400
Authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States."
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
400
Organization formed by college students that protested the draft and companies that made weapons used in Vietnam.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society?
500
Increased involvement of U.S. military forces in the Vietnam War
What is escalation?
500
Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Who is Maya Ying Lin?
500
By the end of 1967, U.S. military leaders claimed they were nearing victory in Vietnam, but this turning point of the war proved that they were wrong.
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
This National Security Adviser helped create a plan to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
500
Revealed that U.S. officials had been lying to the American people about the progress of the Vietnam was for years.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
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