France needed this product from Vietnam in order to restart its economy after the war.
What is Rubber?
100
Nixon's plan to end the war included this, turning the bulk of the fighting over to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam).
What is Vietnamization?
100
This gave LBJ the authority to act as he saw fit with regards to the war in Vietnam, all without a declaration of war.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
100
Ways to get out of this were to be a student, be medical unable to perform, or be a conscientious objector.
What was the Draft?
100
Launched during the Vietnamese New Year, this surprise attack was a tactical disaster for the VC but a strategic victory.
What was the Tet Offensive?
200
The concept that if China become communist, then Vietnam was more likely to become communist, then Laos, then Cambodia, then, Thailand, and so on until the whole world was Communist.
What is the Domino Theory?
200
Today it is known as Ho Chi Minh City. But in 1968 it was this city.
What is Saigon?
200
In a war with few major battles and little ways to take and hold land, this became the standard for determining if we won.
What is body count?
200
A splinter group called the Weather Underground was more violent, but this group was radically anti-war and part of the New Left movement.
What was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
200
The US military advisors to France in Vietnam were under the command of this group.
What was MAAG?
300
Under Eisenhower, this group was in charge of US forces and Vietnam.
What is MAAG?
300
Lt. William Calley led Charlie Company to infamy and about 500 death at this Vietnamese Village.
What is My Lai?
300
No its not a employee of the CIA, but it is fully prepared to kill, plants that is.
What is Agent Orange?
300
His declaration that the war was a stalemate and that the US should seek a negotiated peace pushed the anti-war movement to a higher volume.
Who was Walter Cronkite?
300
US/CIA sponsored program designed to neutralized VC leaders.
What is the Phoenix Program?
400
A conference here led to the decision to temporally form 2 nations in Vietnam and that the French would leave.
What is the Geneva Conference?
400
Three outcomes of the Paris Peace Accords (1973).
What were 2 separate nations, release of POWs, US withdrawal from RoV?
400
A relative of the French agrovilles, this was an effort by US forces to collect all "good" Vietnamese in a few villages.
What were strategic hamlets?
400
The college campus that saw the most outrageous student protest during the war.
What was Kent State?
400
The technical name for the insurgency in the South, or at least the name of the group leading the insurgency.
What is the National Liberation Front (NLF)?
500
American trained leader of the Vietnamese military.
Who was Vo Nguyen Giap?
500
The bombing campaign that finally forced the North to come to the (oddly shaped) peace table.
What is Operation Linebacker II?
500
Before "Search and Destroy," this style of war, mainly carried out by Green Berets, was how the US intended to win Hearts and Minds.
What is a Counterinsurgency?
500
Names at least 3 (actual) candidates for the Democratic nomination in 1968.
Who were Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, and George Wallace?
500
(And one really hard question) The leader of the Khmer Rouge who instigated the Cambodian Genocide.