Vietnam Statistics
Presidents
Protest
100
The number of U.S. troops who served in Vietnam.
What is approximately 2.1 million men?
100
He escalated the war more than any other President.
Who is Johnson?
100
Protests against the war at this California University began with a free speech movement.
What is U.C. Berkeley?
200
The number of Americans who died in Vietnam.
What is more than 58,000?
200
He planned Vietnamization, a strategy to train the South Vietnamese soldiers to take over the war.
Who is Nixon?
200
An organization of students that originated at the University of Michigan and focused on issues of poverty before their crusade against the war.
What is Students for a Democratic Society?
300
The number of Americans who were wounded.
What is 300,000?
300
He wanted to be President in 1968, but was killed before the primary.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
300
The location of the 1968 democratic convention where Mayor Daley sent city police and National Guard to beat demonstrators.
What is Chicago?
400
The number of Vietnamese who were killed.
What is 2 million?
400
He was President during the Tet Offensive.
Who is Johnson?
400
Individuals who were drafted and went to college to postpone military service were granted this.
What is a deferment?
500
The number of U.S. troops at the height of the war.
What is 500,000?
500
He pardoned Nixon after Watergate.
Who is Ford?
500
The newscaster who reported that "it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience in Vietnam is to end in a stale-mate...."
Who is Walter Cronkite?
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