What enabled North Vietnam to send troops and supplies to South Vietnam?
What is The Ho Chi Minh Trail
100
After World War II, the United States aided which European nation in its efforts to keep control of Vietnam?
What is France
100
What is the term for the belief that if one country falls to communism, others in the region will fall, too.
What is the Domino Theory
100
In the early years of the war, a young man could automatically be deferred from the draft by doing what?
What is enrolling in college
100
What required the South Vietnamese to take on much of the fighting in Vietnam?
What is the Vietnamization of the war
200
What granted LBJ broad military powers in Vietnam?
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
Which two countries colonized Vietnam?
What is France and Japan
200
In their fight for independence, the Vietminh conquered a large foreign military outpost at ___.
What is at Dien Bien Phu.
200
What was the name of the peace agreement between the French and the Vietminh?
What is the Geneva Accords
200
When it came time for the all-country elections, which side refused to take part? Why?
What is the anti-communist South, because the feared the communist North would win.
300
Which group in the South were gaining greater support among the peasants?
What is the Vietcong rebels
300
After Tet, what did secretary of defense Clark Clifford decide?
What is that America could not win the war.
300
During the first several years of the war, 20 percent of American soldiers killed were black. This situation prompted protests from many civil rights leaders, including ___.
What is Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
Nixon and National Security Adviser ___, came up with a plan to end the war in Vietnam.
Who is Henry Kissinger
300
To win support for his war policies, Nixon appealed to a group he called what?
What is the silent majority
400
The Johnson administration told the American people that the war was going well, but television told the opposite story.
What term describes the result of this situation?
What is credibility gap
400
Most soldiers who fought in Vietnam were called into combat under the country’s ___ , or draft.
What is Selective Service System
400
Although General Westmoreland declared that the Tet offensive a major defeat, in what way was it harmful to the U.S. government?
What is The Tet offensive also hurt President Johnson’s popularity.
400
Nixon ordered that bombs be dropped on which two neighboring countries of Vietnam?
What are Laos and Cambodia.
400
In November of 1969, what shocking event involving
unarmed Vietnamese civilians did Americans learn about?
What is My Lai Massacre
500
What 3 factors help explain why the Vietnam War turned into a bloody stalemate?
What is (1)the Vietcong’s fighting style, (2) Vietcong’s refusal to surrender, and (3) Vietnamese peasants did not support the U.S.
500
Which two members of Johnson's cabinet approved of sending troops into Vietnam?
Who are Secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, and Secretary of state, Dean Rusk
500
The most common reason college students rose up in protest against the conflict in Vietnam was that they viewed it as what kind of war?
What is civil war between the North and South.
500
Explain the War Powers Act
What is an Act that forbids the president from mobilizing troops without Congressional approval
500
After the war, in Cambodia, a communist group known as the ____ took power in 1975, and killed as many as 1 million Cambodians.