Vietnam War 1
Dwight D. Eisenhower says the fall to communists could create?
Domino Theory
This president ordered secret operations to begin within Vietnam
JFK John F Kennedy
Famous military operation where the American forces dropped tons of bombs (more than 864,000 tons of bombs and missiles)
Operation Rolling Thunder
This president promised to reduce the escalations in the Vietnam War and helped him win election and promised "law and order"
Richard Nixon
1969 government institutes this since the first time since WWII
Draft Lottery
Vietnam kicked out this European country to become independent. Even model their independence after our Declaration of Independence
France French
This president increased American troops in Vietnam and called for a 35,000 draft each month
LBJ Lyndon B Johnson
Famous battle where American paratroopers attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops at Ap Bia Mountain
Hamburger Hill
January 27, 1973
The Selective Service announces the end to the draft
2.7 million drafted
President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war
Operation Linebacker
Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel
Geneva Accords
Operation Ranch Hand led to this chemical being used to clear out vegetation in the jungle and expose the Vietcong
Agent Orange
USS Maddox was "attacked" fired upon which then drew the US into war with Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
policy enacted in early 1969 by the Richard Nixon administration aimed at ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
Vietnamization
Secret Bombing campaign in Cambodia
Why was this kept a secret?
Operation Menu
Cambodia was neutral
Famous trail in the Vietnam War used by the Viet Cong to transport supplies and troops.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Congress granted President Lyndon B. Johnson sweeping authority to deploy military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired live ammunition into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio. The troops killed four students and wounded nine others
Kent State University Shooting
mass murder of unarmed civilians during a "search and destroy" mission
Mai Lai Massacre
New York Times publishes these?
exposed how presidential administrations, lied to the public and Congress about the Vietnam War.
Pentagon Papers
Huge Vietnam War Protest in these cities?
Why?
Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco
military draft, the staggering loss of life, and the widespread belief that the conflict was an unjust, imperialist intervention.
a massive series of surprise attacks launched by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in late January 1968, striking over 100 cities and military installations across South Vietnam. Viet Cong did not win but it changed the view of the war and moral that Americans were close to winning the war, and not really the case.
Tet Offensive
1967: U.S. troop numbers stationed in Vietnam
500,000
triggered the largest helicopter evacuation in history and the immediate surrender of the South Vietnamese government
capture of South Vietnam’s capital by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, ending the Vietnam War.
Fall of Saigon
Total number of American troops killed in Vietnam?
58,220