Background Info
When did the US first become Involved with Vietnam?
What is 1950.
When did the US send in Combat Troops to prevent the Vietnamese Government?
1955
The Vietnam war and Cold war had a direct, or indirect confrontation?
What is indirect.
What are the total wounded fatalities for Americans by the end of the war?
What is 300,000.
South Vietnamese Generals launched a coup. Define Coup.
What is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
Communism divided what two parts of Vietnam?
What is North and South Vietnam.
What did the War make United States Citizens question?
What is the veracity of their own Government Institutions.
President Nixon won his election with what claim about the war?
What is to promise to end war and achieve peace with honor.
What 2 major post World War 2 phenomenons influenced the Vietnam War?
What is Decolonization and the Cold War.
How many decades did the War Last for?
What is 2 decades.
What was the Paris Peace Accords?
What is an ¨Agreement called for ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam.¨
The Vietnam war fell at root during which movement, causing the Cold War.
What is the Independence movement against the French Colonial Rule.
Did South Vietnam fall into the communist or capitalist?
What is communist.
What caused South Vietnam to surrender?
What are North Vietnamese tanks crashing through the gates of the Presidential Palace.
What did President Lyndon Johnson fear, causing him to release more troops?
What is President fearing the expansion of communism throughout Southeast Asia.