Presidents and Candidates
Democratic candidate in 1960, young and handsome, won the elections
JFK
date of JFK's assassination
Nov 22 1963
JFK was assassinated where?
Dallas TX
this type of warfare was carried out by the Viet Cong
Guerilla Warfare
Advisor to Nixon, he advised the policy of Linkage
Henry Kissinger
Ran against JFK in 1960 but would win as a republican in 1968
Nixon
1973
the name of LBJ's social programs
Great Society
this defoliant was used by the US to rid the VC and NVA of jungle cover
Agent orange
the 26th amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to what?
18
JFK's VP who took over the presidency after JFK's assassination, southern democrat
LBJ
North Vietnam took over South Vietnam in this year
1975
this civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, TN in April 1968
MLK Jr.
this was the inciting incident of the US putting troops in vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
this 1968 massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese villagers in "Pinkville," exposed in 1969 led to further protests against the war in the US
My Lai Massacre
Presidential candidate for the democrats in 1968 until his assassination
first man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
this disastrous event involved the training of Cuban exiles to return and lead a popular rebellion against Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs Invasion
this event showed the American people the Vietnamese were not actually on the verge of defeat
Tet Offensive
This incident resulted in the killing of 4 college students at an anti-war protest in Kent, OH
Kent State Massacre
Took over the presidency after Nixon's resignation in 1974
Gerald R Ford
this 13 day crisis was the result of the discovery of soviet missiles in Cuba
this grew as the war went on as Americans realized the government was not being truthful about the progress of the war
Credibility gap
this was the strategy of training the south Vietnamese army to take over so the American troops could withdraw
Vietnamization
what was one reason Americans were unhappy with the draft?
Answers Vary