Vietnam's History
This man is the leader who fought his whole life for Vietnam's independence.
Ho Chi Minh
This President's Secretary of State negotiated the terms to get the US out of Vietnam.
Richard Nixon
Johnson was getting opposing advice from two different types political advisors. Who were the two sides?
Hawks and Doves
Nixon's policy of removing the American troops from Vietnam was known as _____.
Vietnamization
The location of the American military's slaughter of virtually an entire Vietnamese village.
My Lai
Vietnam spent most of its history as a colony. Name one nation that had colonized Vietnam.
China, France, Japan
Vietnam is often referred to as "__________'s War", (this president) because of his escalation of troops to the area.
Johnson's
One of the reasons those who argued in favor of going to war was because they were worried about the spread of Communism. What is the theory they worried about?
Domino Theory
All of the secrecy about the Vietnam War led Americans to distrust their government. This is called...
the Credibility Gap
This weapon was used to burn the jungles of Vietnam and this weapon used to smoke out the Vietcong inside these jungles. (State them in the proper order.)
Napalm
Agent Orange
The Geneva Accords divided Vietnam where?
17th Parallel
Which president sent military advisors to Vietnam?
JFK
LBJ really escalates American involved in Vietnam after 'an attack' on the ship the U.S.S. Maddox. Where did this attack take place?
in the Gulf of Tonkin
Despite Nixon's promise to get America out of the Vietnam War, he actually broaden the war when he did what?
increased the bombings in Cambodia
What was the year of the three day festival for "love and peace"?
1969
The Indochina War was between Vietnam and which nation?
France
What two election years did Nixon win?
1968 & 1972
What does the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
Gives the president full war powers
This group is the part of the population Nixon believed voted him into office and supported his policies despite not being vocal about it.
Silent Majority
How many students died during the Kent State Massacre?
4
America supported this Anti-Communist leader as the President of South Vietnam.
Ngo Dinh Diem
By the end of what year did Johnson have >500,000 soldiers in Vietnam?
1968
What reason did Johnson give when he addressed the American people for not running for re-election in 1968?
He said the campaign would be a distraction, and he needed to focus fully on the war.
At the start of his first term, what were Nixon's two non-negotiables in order to pull American troops from Vietnam?
1. The removal of all North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam.
2. The return of all POWs.
Aside from not wanting to go or not believing in the war, give an example of why the Draft of 1969 was so frustrating.
Disproportionate numbers of young, working, minority men were selected.
The voting age was 21, but the draft age was 18.