History of Vietnam
This country held control of Vietnam before WWII.
What is France?
This theory held that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and India.
What is Domino Theory?
This senator was assassinated in 1968 following a victory speech in Los Angeles.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
Won the Election of 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This was the capital of South Vietnam.
What is Saigon?
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This was the chemical used to clear dense forest and to reveal enemy positions. It also caused cancer and severe birth defects.
What is Agent Orange?
This controversial event served as pretext for American Involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
These senators were strong antiwar voices within Congress. (Name One)
Who is Robert Kennedy/Eugene McCarthy?
This is the capitol of North Vietnam.
What is Hanoi?
This was the main supply line for the North Vietnamese.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This was Johnson's campaign of intense bombing along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
This offensive by the North Vietnamese started on January31, 1968 - The Vietnamese New Year.
What is the Tet Offensive?
These classified documents outline American strategy throughout the Vietnam War, and outraged many when they were published in the New York Times.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This village was the center of controversy after American soldiers massacred over 200 civilians.
What is My Lai?
This was a word used to refer to Vietnamese Communists.
What is Viet Cong?
This was Nixon's plan to shift the fighting responsibility to the South Vietnamese themselves as Americans withdrew.
What is Vietnamization?
The demonstration on this campus resulted in the National Guard opening fire on college students, killing 4.
What is Kent State?
Nixon switched to this system for the draft in an effort to make it more fair for all.
What is lottery draft system?
This was the ancient capitol of Vietnam, and it temporarily fell to communist forces in 1968.
What is Hue?
This was Vietnam's lead negotiator, he worked out a cease fire with Kissinger.
This American General wanted to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people.
Who is General William Westmoreland?
This man released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Nixon secured the votes of this groups, resulting in his victory of the 1972 election. These were people who were tired of the rapid social change, and wanted Nixon to bring law and order.
What is the silent majority?
This city was the last stand for the French colonial forces.
What is Dien Bien Phu?