Terms
the art of using knowledge of the landscape to avoid open battle with the enemy and to launch raids and surprise attacks, before disappearing back into the undergrowth.
Guerrilla Warfare
U.S. president from 1969 – 1974
Richard Nixon
Conscription based on birth dates
Draft
US massacre of a Vietnamese village
My Lai
Term used for young people who favored the counterculture of the 1970s
Hippies
if one country fell to Communism, the surrounding countries would also fall
Domino Theory
U.S. President from 1963 –1969
Lyndon Johnson
Government of North Vietnam
Communist
Where did members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine?
Kent State University
Who won the Vietnam War?
Viet Cong and North Vietnam
Vietnamese Communist
Viet Cong
President of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
international confrontation that led to the United States to engage more directly in the Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
As many as 40,000 men fled here to avoid the draft.
Canada
Name the two countries that supplied North Vietnam with weapons
China and Russia
Major supply line for North Vietnam, ran through Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Priime Minister of South Vietnam, assasinated in a U.S. supported coup
Ngo Dinh Diem
US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring responsibility to South Vietnam
Vietnamization
Major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
Tet Offensive
Leaked the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
term used to describe public distrust of statements made by the government
Credibility Gap
News anchor of the “CBS Evening News” during the Vietnam War
Walter Cronkite
Confidential papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 - leaked to the New York Times
sustained but limited bombing campaign conducted by the United States during the Vietnam War
Operation Rolling Thunder
Who colonized Vietnam in 1859?
France