The French were forced to withdraw from Vietnam after losing this famous battle.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
100
The term for a gradual increase in military involvement in a region.
What is escalate?
100
Cuban leader who overthrew the Batista region in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
A person who is forced to leave his/her country.
What is an exile?
100
Thirty divided by one-half.
What is sixty?
200
The belief that if one country falls to Communism, neighboring countries will follow.
What is "Domino Theory"?
200
Vietcong stage a surprise attack on major South Vietnamese cities and bases, a military victory for the U.S. but psychological defeat in the States.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
Kennedy's response to the Soviet ships heading toward Cuba.
What is a blockade?
200
A form of warfare involving hit and run and ambush, in which a smaller force wears down a larger force through constant harassment.
What is guerilla warfare?
200
Your father's brother's father's father.
What is your great-grandfather?
300
The agreement that divided Vietnam into two halves, following France's withdrawal.
What are the Geneva Accords (1954)?
300
Incident that resulted in the "blank check" for Johnson, as authorized by Congress, giving the president the money needed to fight the war.
What is Gulf of Tonkin?
300
Established immediately after the crisis was resolved so that the president and general-secretary could communicate to each other instantly.
What is the hot line?
300
U.S. military base near the DMZ that was besieged for seventy-seven days in 1968.
What is Khe Sanh?
300
This is the zone created when secondary waves emitted during an earthquake cannot pass through the liquid outer core of the earth.
What is the shadow zone?
400
Kennedy's (and Johnson's) Secretary of Defense, who said, "I don't think it's [Vietnam] is worth fighting for, but I don't think we can get out."
Who is Robert McNamara?
400
Because there were no defined fronts in Vietnam, U.S. troops used these kind of tactics to engage NVA and VC.
What is "search and destroy"?
400
CIA-backed invasion of Cuba, using exiled Cubans.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
400
A catch-all term for the movement opposed to traditional American values and embracing a rebellious attitude toward established authority.
What is the counterculture?
400
He was the first president to live in the White House.
Who is John Adams (second president)?
500
Guerilla organization formed in 1955 after Diem refused to hold free elections as mandated by the 1954 settlement.
What is the National Liberation Front/Vietcong?
500
Commander of U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Who is Gen. William Westmoreland?
500
U.S Ambassador to the United Nations during Kennedy's administration, appeared in the film "Thirteen Days"; also the Democrat presidential candidate in the 1952 and 1956 elections.
Who is Adlai Stevenson?
500
The growing distance between young and old as values held between them are too different to be reconciled.
What is the generation gap?
500
It's what is grammatically wrong with this sentence:
"My dad, a chemist for Pfizer, is much older then my mother, who is only thirty-nine."