War at Home – Public Reaction
Many civil rights leaders criticized the Vietnam War for this reason.
What is African Americans were disproportionately fighting and dying in a war that didn’t address poverty or civil rights?
This country supported the Viet Cong in the South
North Vietnam
The primary objective of Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia in 1970 was this.
What is to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail and disrupt Viet Cong supply lines?
This issue united many left-leaning students on college campuses during the 1960s.
What is the Vietnam War?
This country supported the western backed and democratic South Vietnam
US
This marked the official end of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What is all U.S. troops were withdrawn by March 1973 after a peace agreement?
This incident at the 1968 Democratic National Convention damaged the party’s public image.
What is it made the Democrats look like a party of disorder and unrest?
What is the former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, named today?
Ho Chi Minh City
This happened in Vietnam after the U.S. withdrew its forces.
What is North Vietnam captured Saigon and unified the country under communist rule?
Nixon appealed to this group in his 1968 campaign — Americans who quietly supported the war.
Who is the Silent Majority?
False - the Viet Cong were a rebel group in the South, supported by the North. North Vietnam had an army called the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
This is why the Tet Offensive was considered a psychological defeat for the U.S.
What is it shocked Americans and contradicted the government's optimistic war reports?
Richard Nixon’s key campaign promise in 1968 was this.
What is to restore law and order and end the war in Vietnam?
As protests spread beyond campuses, many conservatives perceived them this way.
What is unpatriotic?
Many Vietnam veterans were treated this way when they returned home.
What is they were met with hostility and were even afraid to wear their uniforms in public?