The Draft
This system selected men for service based on random birthdates.
What is the draft lottery?
vThis tactic used by the Viet Cong involved hit-and-run attacks.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This was the first major battle involving U.S. troops.
What is the Battle of Ia Drang?
This university saw a deadly protest shooting in 1970.
What is Kent State?
This movie, shown partially in class, features the iconic line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" as well as Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries
What is Apocalypse Now?
These where acused od being racially biased and replaced by the lottery.
What are Draft Boards?
This job was considered one of the worst for US soldiers, where they would crawl through VC tunnels.
What are tunnel rats?
This 1968 surprise attack shifted public opinion.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This event showing the butality and cruelty of US troops swayed public opinoin against the war
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This band was inspired by the Vietnam War and made numerous anti-war songs.
what is Bob Dylan, The Rolling stones, or Creedence Clearwater Revival?
30,000-50,000 people left america for this country to avoid being drafted.
What is Canada?
The vietcong employed many of these to surprise and kill American troops
What are booby traps?
This U.S. location was attacked by Vietnamese commandos in 1968.
What is the American Embassy in Saigon?
Daily Double!!! This author wrote “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.”
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This song, written by CCR, was inspired by a story of a senator's son draft dodging.
What is Fortunate Son?
Many people tried to join this local armed forces to avoid serving in vietnam.
What is the National Guard?
This strategy involved hunting enemy personel and destroying supplies.
What is search and destroy?
This event marked the end of the war in 1975.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
This officer was convicted for crimes related to My Lai.
Who is William Calley Jr.?
This Major music festival was hosted in oposition to the vietnam war.
What is Woodstock?
These where two commonndraft exemptions during vietnam.
What are attending university and being married?
These two American strategies suffered reduced effectiveness from guerrilla close-range tactics.
What are artillery and airstrikes?
This operation evacuated thousands before Saigon fell.
This conspirator in the Tet Offensive was executed in front of journalists.
Nguyễn Văn Lém (Nwen Van Lem)
American sentiments from Nam would lay the groundwork for this 1992 protest
What are the LA Riots?