Leaders/Groups
This man became the leader of South Vietnam in 1956
Ngo Dinh Diem
The Gulf of Tonkin involved "______" ships
Ghost
The main supply line for the Vietcong was:
Ho Chi Minh Trail
This theory stated, “If South Vietnam falls to the Communist, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India and Pakistan would also fall.
Domino
The Vietnam War was in response to:
Containment Policy
Guerrilla terrorist forces of North Vietnam were known as the:
Vietcong
The Vietnam War grew out of the long conflict between _______________ and Vietnam.
France
Operation Rolling Thunder included sustained bombing missions over this country:
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh formed the National Liberation Front (NLF) in order to:
Unify the country
The Geneva Peace Accords created:
A communist regime in North Vietnam
This man claimed he had a secret plan to end the war.
Richard Nixon
Four students were killed by National Guardsmen who were called out to preserve order on campus after days of anti-Nixon protest on this college campus:
Kent State
War protests were mainly in these two places:
Major Cities
College Campuses
Vietnamization called for:
Bringing American troops home while increasing the air war over North Vietnam
Agent Orange can BEST be defined as:
Deadly chemical cocktail, containing dioxin, killed off millions of acres of jungle
Ngo Dinh Diem eventually:
was captured and killed as part of a coupe supported by the U.S.
After what point did the media start to openly criticize the war?
Tet Offensive
“I poured about four clips into the group...the mothers hugging their children…Well, we kept right on firing.” This quote refers to which gruesome event carried out by the United State in Vietnam?
My Lai
The Strategic Hamlet Program was put in place in order to:
isolate the North Vietnamese from villagers in the south
What does the following quote from a marine say about how the South Vietnamese felt about U.S. troops? “If they weren’t Vietcong before we got there, they sure as hell were by the time we left.”
They did not like how U.S. troops treated them
In which of the following ways did the Vietcong fight back? Name 3.
Elaborate network tunnels
Suprise attacks
Booby traps
President Nixon secretly began bombing these two countries around North and South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
What did the Pentagon Papers do?
Was a 7,000 page report describing Johnson’s escalating war plans
Name a reason why citizens protested the war.
The U.S. didn't belong in Vietnam's civil war
The U.S. shouldn't have to police the entire globe
South Vietnam was just as oppressive as North Vietnam
Troops coming home from Vietnam experienced: Name 2 of the 3.
PTSD
Alcohol Addiction
Drug Addiction