Miscellaneous
This was the Ohio college where violent anti-war protests on campus led to killings of four students by National Guard troops in 1970
What is Kent State University?
This is the name of the fire-bomb weapon commonly used in Vietnam.
What is napalm?
This term refers to the policy of gradually replacing withdrawing American troops with ARVN forces.
What is Vietnamization?
He was the trusted television anchor who helped sway Americans' opinion when he began to criticize war policy in 1968.
Who is Walter Cronkite?
He was Richard Nixon’s influential National Security Adviser who orchestrated the end American involvement in Vietnam
Who is Henry Kissinger?
Following a supposed attack on an American ship by the North Vietnamese in 1964, this congressional approval gave Lyndon Johnson the ability to escalate American military involvement in South Vietnam.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
This is the herbicide commonly used to clear vegetation in Vietnam that was later linked to numerous serious health problems among veterans.
What is Agent Orange?
This was the belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, others would soon follow.
What is the domino theory?
He was Lyndon Johnson's vice president who received the Democratic nomination for president when Johnson chose not to run in 1968.
Who is Hubert Humphrey?
He was the controversial American military commander in Vietnam who advocated a war of attrition that measured success by “the number of enemies killed rather than by strategic objectives. He also attended the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle.
Who is William Westmoreland?
This 1954 treaty worked out by Vietnam, the U.S. and European powers established how Vietnam would be governed following French withdrawal. It led to a divided country with a communist North and democratic South.
What are the Geneva Accords?
This was the term used by Americans to refer to the communist guerrilla forces in South Vietnam.
What is Viet Cong?
This is the term for the perception that there was a significant difference between what the Johnson administration was stating about American successes in Vietnam versus what was really happening.
What is credibility gap?
He was the Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ who was instrumental in escalating American involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Robert McNamara?
He was the anti-war senator from Minnesota who challenged President Johnson in the early Democratic primaries of 1968.
Who is Eugene McCarthy?
This was the law passed in 1973 that placed limits on president's ability to involve troops in hostile areas without congressional consent.
What is the War Powers Act?
The acronym ARVN stands for this.
What is Army of the Republic of Vietnam?
This is the term for tactics used by American troops to uproot civilians with suspected ties to communist guerrilla forces by killing their livestock and burning their villages.
What is search and destroy?
He was the long-serving Secretary of State under JFK and LBJ who continually voiced strong support for Vietnam War, even in late 1960’s when public support dropped.
Who is Dean Rusk?
He was Johnson's second Secretary of Defense who supported de-escalating American involvement in Vietnam, hoping that South Vietnamese troops could take over their own nation's defense.
Who is Clark Clifford?
This was the site of the embarrassing defeat of French forces by the Vietminh in 1954 that signified independence for North Vietnam, and the end of French involvement in region.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
This South Vietnamese capital fell to the North in 1975.
What is Saigon?
This is the term for the political movement of 1960’s that grew out of the anti-war movement that advocated sweeping social changes rather than political changes.
What is New Left?
He was the famous communist leader of the Vietminh forces who resisted Japanese occupation and fought for independence from French colonial control.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
He was the unpopular South Vietnamese Catholic leader who was supported by the U.S. because he was a staunch anti-communist.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?