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A group of communist guerillas who fought against the South Vietnamese Government during the Vietnam War
What is Vietcong?
A supply route used to carry troops and supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This group wanted the Vietnam war to continue.
What are Hawks?
President Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell to the Communists other countries would also soon fall to the Communists: like dominoes. Therefore, it was important to keep Vietnam from falling to the Communists
What is the Domino Theory?
What is the working class?
Communist Leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The United States' policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the Vietnam war to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This group wanted to stop the fighting in the Vietnam war.
Who are the doves?
The documents that showed that United States Leaders were lying about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam were called.
What is the Pentagon Papers?
Village in South Vietnam where more than 300 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were massacred by US troops in May 1968.
This wall was a barrier to keep West Germans from entering Eastern Germany and undermining the socialist state.
What is the Berlin Wall?
A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving President Johnson broad powers to wage war in Vietnam if U.S. forces were attacked.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A code name for a herbicide and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part if its chemical warfare program.
What is Agent Orange?
This crisis caused the world to be right on the edge of a Nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, which in turn caused the United States to respond by taking this action.
What is a Naval Blockade?
A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968
What is the Tet Offensive?
President Kenned agreed with this defense policy.
What is Flexible Response?
Highly flammable chemicals (jellied gasoline) dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War.
What is Napalm?
In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Police and protestors fought outside of this very important convention right before the 1968 elections.
What is the Chicago Democratic Convention?
A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam until elections could be held.
What is the Geneva Accords?
This Treaty ended aboveground nuclear testing.
President Nixon was committed to this policy at the end of the Vietnam War
What is Peace with Honor?
The Law that repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Any president was now required to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops and had to gain congressional approval to keep troops deployed for more than 90 days.
What is the War Powers Act?
To strengthen Nationalist efforts in Vietnam, the United States supported this countries colonial efforts there.
What is France/the French?