Background
Which European country controlled Vietnam before WWII?
France
Which U.S President was the first to believe in the domino theory?
1968 -Charlie Company kills 200-500 unarmed villagers
My Lai Massacre
What do we call people that supported the War?
Hawks
By 1968, how many U.S. soldiers were Killed in Vietnam?
Over 58,220
What do we call the Vietnamese Soldiers
Vietcong
Texas native Medal of Honor Winner
Roy Benavidez
Tet Offensive
18+ year olds were forced into military service through what government tactic?
The Draft
What role did media play in Americans views toward the Vietnam war?
Showed loses and horrors of war, Americans began to hate the Vietnam war
Which U.S. President sent 16,000 advisors to South Vietnam in 1963?
Operation Rolling Thunder's objective was to
Take out the Ho Chi Mnh Trail
University where students were killed protesting the Vietnam War
Kent State University
This limited the power of the President as Commander and Chief. (Removed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution)
War Powers Act 1973
What doctrine brought the United States into Vietnam?
Truman Doctrine
Which U.S. President escalated the war in Vietnam?
Fire bomb designed to burn the jungles in Vietnam
Napalm
Joined National Guard
Went to college
Americans found out they were lied to with the release of the ...
Pentagon Papers
What gave LBJ authorization to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
Who was the Vietnamese leader that gained power in North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
Agent Orange
Civil Rights case that allows students to use their 1st amendment rights, as long as they do not disrupt school.
Tinker v. Des Moines 1969
This event officially ended the Vietnam war.
Paris Peace Accords 1973