8.4
What group country was occupied from the 1930s to the 1950s?
Indochina
What did JFK send to South Vietnam?
Money and Military
Doves means those that oppose the war
Hawks means those that supported the war
What is the capital of North Vietnam?
Hanoi
What was justification for the Vietnam war?
The Gulf of Tonkin
Who was the leader of North Korea?
HO CHI MINH
What was the Gulf of Tonkin?
A brief (and debatable) confrontation between U.S. and North Vietnamese warships
What was the Lai Massacre?
American soldiers entered the village of My Lai looking for Viet Cong
Who supported South Vietnam?
U.S
Who fought using gurella warfare?
Viet Cong
Who was the leader of South Korea?
NGO DINH DIEM
Who was the first president to send thousands of troops to Vietnam?
President Johnson
What was the Kent State Shooting?
Students protesting the war at Kent State University burned down their ROTC building.
Who supported North Vietnam?
China
Who did JFK support?
South Vietnam
What split Vietnam into 2 countries?
Geneva Accords
What did the communist supporters still living in the south form?
viet cong
What was Nixon's plan to end the war?
He opened the draft to college students.
What 2 countries were brutal and oppressive?
Japan and France
What did Diem's rise and fall cause in South Vietnam?
Greater instability
Where were the French defeated at?
Dien Bien Phu
How much of the country was backing Johnson up?
61%
How did the war end?
North and South Vietnam immediately went to war after America withdrew. The North won and Vietnam is still communist today
Who did Vietnam demand indipendance from?
The French
How did some Buddhists protest?
Lighting themselves on fire