Origins of the War
Prior to World War II Vietnam had been part of "Indochina" a colony of this European nation.
What is France?
Ratified because of the draft, this changed the age at which Americans gained the right to vote.
What was the 26th Amendment?
This infamous supply line passed from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the mountains and jungle of Cambodia and Laos.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The only POTUS to never win a national election.
Who was Gerald Ford
After WWII Vietnam was temporarily divided into North (Communist) and South (Democratic) by this peace treaty.
What were the Geneva Accords?
This U. S. President coined the term "Vietnamization" as part of his campaign in 1968.
Who was Richard Nixon?
This infamous chemical defoliant was used extensively by the U. S. military to clear the jungles in South Vietnam.
What was Agent Orange?
The contentious and chaotic Democratic National Convention of 1968 took place in this city.
What is Chicago?
The Arab Embargo by the US and the reaction by OPEC in cutting supplies and raising prices was all in regards to relations with this country.
What is Israel?
This was the term Eisenhower used to describe his fear of China and North Vietnam pushing communism into Laos and Cambodia.
What is the domino effect?
This U.S. Commander in Vietnam consistently told the American people that we were winning the war and it would soon be over (but we could see that it wasn't on the TV, i.e. "living room war.")
Who was William Westmoreland?
This attack by the Vietcong during Lunar New Year was logistically a failure but turned the American public against the war.
What was the Tet Offensive?
The bombing of Cambodia led to protests at this University where the National Guard fired on an killed college student protesters.
What was Kent State?
Jimmy Carter's famous peace meeting between Egypt and Israel.
What were the Camp David Accords?
What is Dien Bien Phu?
He was a Department of Defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the American press.
Who was Daniel Ellsberg?
At least after losing the war Nixon was able to begin a peace process with China known as this.
What is détente?
Political "doves" in 1968 would have likely supported this presidential candidate.
Who was Eugene McCarthy?
The fun economic term for high inflation and high unemployment.
Bonus 100 for Ford's program to fight it.
What is stagflation?
WIN (Whip Inflation Now!)
This act of Congress gave President Johnson (and Nixon after him) broad authority to use the military in Vietnam.
What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
He was the pro-Capitalist, Christian (and anti-Buddhist) leader of South Vietnam.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
This 2nd Lt. was the highest ranking officer charged with a crime for the My Lai Massacre - which killed (and raped before killing) between 300-500 Vietnamese women, children, and the elderly.
Bonus for guessing how he was punished after being found guilty of 22 murders.
Who was Lt. William Calley?
The intention of this piece of legislation was to limit the POTUS' use of the military (but didn't really).
What was the War Powers Act?
He was the spiritual leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution which took 52 Americans hostage and would later be the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?