Early Vietnam & Geography
Vietnam is located on this continent, just south of China.
What is Asia?
The U.S. supported this side in the Vietnam War.
What is South Vietnam?
This tactic includes using ambushes and surprise attacks.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This resolution allowed the president to expand military power in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
True or False: Americans strongly supported the war in the 1970s.
What is False?
This European country controlled Vietnam before independence.
What is France?
What is domino theory?
This tactic involved small groups blending in with civilians.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This term describes increasing involvement in a conflcit
What is escalation?
One major reason people protested the war.
High casualties / cost / draft
This group was from South Vietnam and fought against the United States with the North Vietnamese.
Who are the Vietcong?
The first Americans sent to Vietnam served in this role.
What are advisors / trainers?
This type of warfare includes large units and airstrikes.
What is conventional warfare?
This event delt a major blow to the US forces in Vietnam
Tet Offensive
This group was heavily involved in protests.
Who are students (or accept: citizens, veterans
This side eventually won the Vietnam War and unified the country under one flag.
Who is North Vietnam?
This president greatly escalated troop involvement in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
“Search and destroy” missions were designed to do this.
What is find and eliminate enemy forces/targets, then withdraw?
This strategy focused on finding and eliminating enemy forces.
What is search and destroy?
This civil rights leader who spoke out against the Vietnam War.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The U.S. supported this side in Vietnam's fight for independence to maintain a relationship.
Who is France?
This policy was aimed at giving more responsibilities to South Vietnam in the war.
What is Vietnamization?
Give TWO characteristics of either guerrilla or conventional warfare
Ambushes, small groups, blending in with civilians
Large units, military machines/tanks, bombs/airstrikes
Explain ONE cause of increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Fear of communism / containment / Gulf of Tonkin / France losing the independence fight
Explain how protests influenced the U.S. government.
Increased pressure to withdraw / reduced support for war