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This was the name of the movement where young people rebelled against mainstream American society and became "hippies"
Counterculture
The Viet Cong would retreat to these, fight from these, and had traps here that Americans were typically unable to penetrate
Tunnels
This famous figure said the Vietnam War was "a white man's war, a black man's fight"
Martin Luther King Jr.
This was the nickname for this war when it comes to the fact that Americans were able to watch video clips from the war in their living rooms on the nightly news
Television War
This was the famous concert in New York that became the high point of the Counterculture movement in 1969
Woodstock
This was the style of war that the Viet Cong used very effectively against the US Army with hit and run ambushes
Guerrilla War
This was the "highway" for the Viet Cong and North Vietnam as they moved soldiers and supplies through Laos and Cambodia and into South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
This was the name of the infiltration Army fighting against the US Army that was funded and supplied by North Vietnam. The American soldiers were always looking for "Charlie"
Viet Cong
These were the two most common traps used by the Viet Cong to slow down, disable, wound, and traumatize Americans soldiers
Trip Wires and Bamboo Spikes
This was the fiery substance dropped on the Viet Cong by the US military in targeted air strikes
Napalm
These were supporters of the Vietnam War in the United States, represented by this bird
Hawks
These were people who opposed the Vietnam War in the United States, represented by this bird
Doves
The first Americans sent over to Vietnam in the 1950s and early 1960s were not considered soldiers but they were called this
Advisors
This man became the dictator of South Vietnam and he was having trouble managing the country
President Diem
Since Vietnam wasn't officially allied with the United States as a First World country or the Soviet Union as a Second World country, they were considered this
Third World Country
This man was the Presidential candidate the Republicans turned to in 1968 to return them to normal times like the WW2 era and 1950s and crack down on the crazy times/drug use of the 1960s. He was making a political comeback from losing the 1960 Presidential Election to John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
President Diem was of this religion, opposite of his people of South Vietnam who were primarily Buddhist
Catholic
General Westmoreland initially wanted to use this strategy to win in Vietnam by wearing down the opponent through lots of small battles that would add up to a victory. It didn't actually work and the North Vietnamese used the strategy better than the US did
War of Attrition
This reporter was considered the most trusted man in America so when he visited Vietnam and reported back that the US was not winning the war and it looked to be a stalemate, the American people listened
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite the reporter went over to Vietnam and said that the US was not winning, but rather it was this word for a tie/draw
Stalemate
Chaos broke out in Chicago at this event as Vietnam War protesters gathered and the end result of the event was the nomination of Hubert Humphrey
Democratic National Convention
The US Government launched this propaganda campaign to try to convince the American people that the war in Vietnam was going well and that the US was winning
Success Offensive
The longest lasting fighting of the Tet Offensive occurred in this city, taking the Americans a month to clear it out and afterwards they found mass graves of slaughtered Vietnamese people
Hue
This was the biggest holiday in Vietnam when fighting typically stopped but in 1968 North Vietnam used it as cover to launch a huge surprise attack
Tet or Lunar New Year
This man was the Vice President of Lyndon Johnson and when Johnson dropped out of the 1968 running, this man took his spot and won the Democratic nomination
Hubert Humphrey