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What country originally colonized Vietnam?
France
What was Rolling Thunder?
The U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam
What was the fighting strategy of North Vietnam?
guerilla warfare
Who supported North Vietnam with weapons and supplies?
Soviet Union and/or China
What college were protestors shot and killed at by National Guard members?
Kent State
Who was the leader of North Vietnamese communists?
Ho Chi Minh
Why did Buddhist light themselves on fire?
In protest of Ngo Dinh Diem's legal requirement to worship Catholicism
What was Agent Orange?
What was the concept of Vietnamization?
The strategy to pull U.S. soldiers out of Vietnam and have south vietnamese soldiers take over fighting
What was the idea of the U.S. slowly withdrawing from Vietnam called?
Peace With Honor
Who was the president of South Vietnam?
Ngo Dinh Diem
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What was the Tet Offensive?
Surprise attack by North VIetnam on New Year's Day which they infiltrated South Vietnam cities to attack U.S. forces
What was the Mai Lai Massacre?
Killing of group of South Vientamese citizens by U.S. forces who mistook them for enemy combatants or communist sympathizers
Who was the last president to oversee action in the Vietnam War?
Richard Nixon
What were the Geneva Accords?
What was the cause of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Why was Vietnam War known as a "living room war"?
Journalists and news cameras were alongside soldiers broadcasting the events to U.S. citizens at home on a regular basis
What agreement led to a cease fire between North and South Vietnam?
Paris Peace Accords
Who was the vice president who replaced John F Kennedy as president after he was assassinated?
Lyndon Johnson
Who were the Vietcong?
Communist supporters in South Vietnam
What tactics did the North Vietnamese use against U.S. forces?
What were 3 common ways to avoid the military draft?
College student, medical deferment, leave the country (draft dodge), or recgnized as a conscientious objector
Americans now pause and consider possible risks to their own interests before deciding whether to intervene in the affairs of other nations
Who designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C.?
Maya Ying Lin