Causes of the War
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Surprise 1968 attack that shocked Americans and hurt U.S. confidence.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Young men were selected for military service through this system.
What is the draft?
Jungle supply route used by North Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This type of warfare used by the Viet Cong relied on ambushes, traps, and knowledge of the local terrain rather than large-scale battles.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The idea that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
Nixon began secretly bombing this neighboring country while peace talks were occurring.
What is the bombing of Cambodia?
U.S. president who escalated the war in the mid-1960s.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Americans who supported the war effort were often called this.
What are hawks?
Chemical used to destroy jungle vegetation.
What is Agent Orange?
When the public loses trust in government statements.
What is the credibility gap?
Which country colonized Vietnam into the 1950s?
What is France?
College protest where National Guard troops killed 4 students.
What is the Kent State shooting?
U.S. Presiden t who attempted to achieve Peace with Honor?
Richard Nixon
Americans who opposed the war were called this.
What are doves?
Highly flammable substance used in bombing.
What is napalm?
This U.S. strategy involved seeking enemy forces in rural villages and then moving on without holding the territory.
What are search and destory missions?
This 1964 event led Congress to give the president broad war powers.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Mass killing of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in 1968.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
American Lt. who was court martialed for thier actions at My Lai.
Who was William Calley?
In response to Vietnam, what was lowered to 18 via the 26th Amendment?
What is the voting age?
Strategy of slowly withdrawing U.S. troops while training South Vietnamese forces.
What is Vietnamization?
Official U.S. government report exposing war truths (leaked in 1971).
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The U.S. supported this non-communist government in South Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
In 1975 the U.S. evacuated all diplomats from this city.
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
Anti-war activist who helped publish the Pentagon Papers.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
This student-led organization became one of the most visible groups organizing protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
What is Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
These sharpened bamboo stakes, often hidden in pits, were used by Viet Cong fighters to injure and trap American soldiers.
What are punji sticks?
What is a unified, commumitst country