Strategies
People
Events
1968
Great Society
100
The first strategy of the war, mostly included use of bombs on strategic locations.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
100
Secretly sent troops first to help anti-communist South Vietnam
Who is Eisenhower?
100
Started full US Involvement in the war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
100
First widespread negative attention to the Vietnam War
What is the Tet Offensive?
100
Who created the Great Society Programs?
Who is President Johnson?
200
Involved building public works projects to befriend rural South Vietnamese people.
What is Pacification
200
Name means "Most Enlightened One", first leader of communist North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
200
Showed the US had been lying about Vietnam for decades
What are the Pentagon Papers?
200
Winner of the 1968 Presidential Election
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
Name a program that helped poor people?
What is:
Medicare/Medicaid
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Project Uplift
National Endowment for the Arts
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Higher Education Act
300
Involved giving more power to South Vietnamese forces
What is Vietnamization?
300
South Vietnamese Guerilla Fighters
Who are the Viet Cong?
300
What was the system used to draft soldiers for 1970 on?
What is the draft lottery?
300
What is the Olympic Black Power Salute?
300
Name a Great Society Program that helped education
What is:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Higher Education Act
Head Start
Bilingual Education Act
400
Reasons for Search and Destroy missions being unsuccessful
What is mountainous terrain or thick jungles?
What is the sheer numbers of anti-US Vietnamese 'civilians'?
400
This person officially sent combat troops to fight the North Vietnamese
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Who is President Johnson?
400
The U.S. , South and North Vietnam signed a peace treaty in what year?
When is 1973?
400
Was the likely winner of the 1968 Presidential election before misfortune happened
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
400
Johnson's campaign to help poor people was called?
What is the War on Poverty?
500
The other name for Pacification, ____ & ____ campaign
What is the Hearts and Minds Campaign?
500
Actively suppressed the practice of South Vietnam's religion
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
Who is President Diem?
500
The event that solidifies Vietnam as a completely communist nation.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
500
Largest failure of pacification noted; probably worst American War Crime in history
What is the My Lai Massacre?
500
What were the criticisms of the Great Society?
What are:
too expensive
didn't eliminate poverty or hunger (though helped)
expanded power of the federal government