Countries that controlled Vietnam and main reason why
Japan, China, France/ Food/rice
In 1965 Johnson escalated the war by
sending in US troops to fight
How were many men able to avoid the draft
college
The renewed diplomacy with China and Russia
Linkage
The gas filled fire bomb
napalm
The call for Vietnam to be free from foreign rule and the main Vietnamese group
Vietnamese Nationalism/Vietminh
Johnson's Advisors and many Americans supported the escalation because the US wanted to
Stop the spread of communism
The Vietnam war was known as what kind of fight because of what people fought the war
working class
Nixon's Vietnam policy w troops
Vietnamization
The chemical defoliant used to kill the jungle
Agent Orange
The US supported the French on the fight because of the _____ theory.
Domino
The US struggled in Vietnam because of the Vietnamese _____ tactics
guerrilla/ambush
Women during the war were
Nurses
Kent state University was the site of
the shooting of student protesters that were college students
The missions that led to village deconstructions and enemy deaths
search and destroy
The ______ Accords divided Vietnam into ____ Communist and the South ______
Geneva/Communist/Democratic
The US struggled to get the support of what part of the Vietnamese population
peasants
The new left were _____ ______ and wanted
college students/sweeping changing in societies
The Pentagon papers showed that the
Presidents and Congress lied to the US people
Protesters protested the war because they saw it as
immoral
The US supported Diem in South Vietnam because he was Catholic and pro west and we thought he would support what type of govt.
Democratic
The Vietnamese freedom fighters refused
give up/surrender
The two groups in the US divided by war
doves/war
The Domino was proved
false did not happen
How many soldiers were in Vietnam by 1967
half million