Leader of the Viet Cong and communist leader of North Korea
What is Ho Chi Minh
100
The trait that helped Kennedy win the first televised Presidential debate against Richard Nixon
What is the Kennedy Mystique
100
Johnson's policy to create the "most perfect and equitable society in the United States."
What is The Great Society
100
The object that represented the division between the east and west
What is the Berlin Wall
100
Nixon increased this in Vietnam to ensure bargaining power during peace negotiations
What are air strikes
200
Weapon used to force Viet Cong forces out of the thick jungles by killing off the plants
What is Agent Orange
200
The name of Kennedy's plan to push for a build up of conventional troops and weapons
What is Flexible Response
200
The lack of factual information that the American public received on the war created this infraction
What is the Credibility Gap
200
The event that caused America to believe they were falling behind in the race against communism
What is the Space Race
200
Nixon's policy for a gradual withdrawal of US troops from South Vietnam
What is Vietnamization
300
The two parties who had opposing view about America's involvement in the war
What are Doves and Hawks
300
Kennedy's decision to remove air forces failed to result in the US overthrowing Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion
300
Authorized President to "take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attacks against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression"
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
300
Program aimed to less developed nations to fight poverty
What is The Peace Corps
300
The policy established by Henry Kissinger to improve relations with the Soviet Union and China.
What is Linkage
400
The two events that convinced the Truman administration to help France against Vietnam
What are the fall of China to communism and the Outbreak of the Korean War
400
The three compromises JFK made with Khrushchev at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy publicly agreed not to invade Cuba, Kennedy privately agreed to remove missiles in Turkey, Khrushchev publicly agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba
400
The bloodiest battle during the Vietnam War
What is the Tet Offensive
400
Belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would other south eastern nations.
What is Domino Theory
400
Act passed to reestablish limits on executive power
What is the War Powers Act
500
The reason President Johnson did not bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail
It went through Laos and Cambodia, who were not directly involved in the war
500
What were the five major decisions made by the Warren Court about Civil Rights
What is Brown v. Board of Education, Baker v. Carr, Reynolds v. Sims, Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, Loving v. Virginia
500
Two events that occurred after Johnson left the Presidential race
What is the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John D. Kennedy
500
The tactical efforts of the Viet cong that the American soldiers were not prepared for
What is Guerrillas
500
Documents that revealed the fact that some presidents questioned the purpose of the Vietnam War