What's in a name and other things.
What was the name given to communist insurgents fighting in South Vietnam?
What is: The Viet Cong?
Which town was the location of an infamous war crime where American forces slaughtered Vietnamese civilians in 1968?
What is: My Lai
The Tet Offensive had which of the following consequences?
What is: It led to the capture of Saigon, It undermined public support for the Vietnam War in the US?
Which of the following countries provided the most military and economic assistance to the North Vietnamese?
Who is: China?
When and what age was the voting age reduced
What is: 1971 and 18
Which incident in 1964 led the United States to send more troops to Vietnam?
What is: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Which 1969 battle resulted in US forces capturing terrain with little strategic value and then abandoning it?
What is: Hamburger Hill.
What were students at Kent State University protesting when National Guardsmen opened fire on them in 1970?
What is: The invasion of Cambodia
Which general led US forces in Vietnam between 1964 and 1968?
Who is: General West Moreland?
Where is the Vietnam War Memorial located?
What is Washington, D.C.?
Which aerial bombardment campaign in 1972 involved the largest number of heavy bomber raids by the American Air Force since World War II?
What is: Linebacker II?
Which battle resulted in the withdrawal of French forces from Vietnam in 1954?
What is: Dien Bien Phu
Which diplomat represented the United States at the Paris Peace Talks in 1973?
Who is: Henry Kissinger?
Which U.S. Senator was an early opponent of the Vietnam War and published a critique called The Arrogance of Power?
Who is: William Fullbright?
Approximately how many Americans were killed or missing as of a result of the Vietnam War?
What is: 58,220?
US forces used which chemical agent to defoliate large swaths of Vietnam?
What is: Agent Orange?
Which statesman served as president of the Republic of Vietnam between 1955 and 1963?
Who is: Ngo Dinh Diem?
What did the Paris Peace Talks of 1973 accomplish?
What is: They established a temporary cease-fire.
President Johnson declared that he lost “middle America” when which famous broadcast journalist declared the Vietnam War had become a quagmire in 1968?
Who is: Walter Kronkite
What two notable figures were killed during the Vietnam War?
Who is: Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy?
As part of the Vietnam War, the United States also bombed what other Southeast Asian country?
What is: Cambodia and Laos?
Which president coined the term “silent majority”?
Who is Richard NIxon?
When did Saigon fall to North Vietnamese troops?
When is: 1975
What were the Pentagon Papers?
What is: A history of U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
What was the name of the first African American Marine Corps general during the Vietnam War?
Who is: Frank E. Petersen?