Real Richard
First name of President Nixon
What is Richard?
Known as "Uncle Ho" to North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
The amendment that allows for freedom of the press, and also the amendment that protected the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
What is the 1st Amendment
Term referring to the De-Americanization of the South Vietnam army.
What is Vietnamization
1968
What was the year Nixon was elected?
US President that attempted to keep the power to send US troops to foreign nations without Congress' approval. Also was involved in Watergate.
Who is Richard Nixon
Magazine that first published the Pentagon Papers
President who unsuccessfully began Vietnamization
Who is Lyndon Johnson
A popular Simpsons character and middle name
What is Milhous
The first US President to take action against North Vietnam
Who is John F. Kennedy
$41,100,000
What was the amount of money sent to South Vietnam in troops, supplies, and training by the US.
The first department of the US Military to begin leaving Vietnam
What is the Navy
Extended period of time spent in-between political positions, as coined by Nixon. Included time spent as a lawyer, and writing a memoir.
What are Wilderness Years
President that escalated the war with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and made the war unpopular in the U.S.
Who is Lyndon Johnson
To contain China, and prevent the spread of it's political sphere.
What was the real goal of the Vietnam War
Country jointly invaded by the US and ARVN
What is Cambodia
A scandal in which Nixon was accused of various abuses of power, which ultimately led to his resignation in 1974.
What was Watergate?
WHo was president of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem
Countries secretly bombed by the US Military under the Johnson administration
What are Cambodia and Laos
US official who held secret discussions with the Soviet Union and North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger