Section One
The United States originally sent aid to the Vietminh to help?
What is to help expel Japanese forces?
What was the belief that suggested if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the rest of Southeast Asia?
What is Domino Theory?
As the fighting began between the Vietcong and the South Vietnamese army, President Eisenhower tried to help South Vietnam by?
What is sending military advisers?
In South Vietnam, a monk set himself on fire to protest?
What is discrimination against Buddhists?
The purpose of Agent Orange was to
What is destroying the Vietcong's ability to hide in jungles?
By 1968 the nation seemed to be divided into two camps: the "doves" who wanted to withdraw from Vietnam and the "______________" who wanted to stay and fight.
What is Hawks?
The massive surprise attack in 1968 during ____________, the Vietnamese New Year, became a turning point in the Vietnam War.
What is Tet?
Who was Nixon's special assistant for national security affairs?
What is Henry Kissinger?
Who was the Democratic candidate assassinated in a California hotel?
What is Robert Kennedy?
Who was the American Commander in South Vietnam?
What is William Westmoreland?
The Vietcong's power continued to increase in part because of?
What is the Vetcong's use of terror?
Operation Rolling Thunder was
What is a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam?
Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped
What is create a credibility gap?
With the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Congress, in effect?
What is handed its war powers to the president?
Many college faculty and students against the Vietnam War abandoned their classes and gathered informally to discuss the issues in a new form of protest called a?
What is teach-ins?
Why was Diem's South Vietnamese government so unpopular?
What is, Diem was a Catholic who discriminated against his country's Buddhist majority.
What event happened at My Lai that profoundly shocked Americans?
What is Unarmed Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. troops?
What two events convinced Truman to help France in Vietnam?
What is the fall of China to communism and the outbreak of the Korean War?
The main reason President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam was his fear that it would?
What is bring China into the war?
The guerrilla army organized by Ho Chi Minh to reunify Vietnam became known as the?
What is The Viet Cong?
DBQ - The number of deaths in Vietnam reached a peak in the same year as?
What is the Tet Offensive?
The Tet Offensive marked a major turning point in the Vietnam War because?
What is The Vietcong scored a major political victory?
The Pentagon Papers revealed that?
What is American prisoners of war were being tortured in North Vietnamese prisons?
In a program introduced by Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese peasants were moved to special fortified villages called ___________ to protect them and prevent them from aiding the Vietcong?
What is strategic hamlets?
During the Vietnam War, American planes dropped _____________, a jellied gasoline that explodes on contact.
What is Napalm?