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This idea said that if Vietnam became communist, nearby countries might fall like a row of toppling tiles.
What is the Domino Theory?
This president dramatically increased U.S. troop levels in Vietnam during the mid-1960s.
Lyndon B. Johnson?
This president later tried to end the war while withdrawing American troops.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Young men could be forced into military service through this system.
What is the draft?
After the war ended, Vietnam became unified under this political system.
What is communism?
This massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers was later exposed by investigative journalism in 1969.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This law gave the president authority to use military force without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This communist revolutionary became the leader of North Vietnam and a symbol of Vietnamese independence.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The Viet Cong often used this hit-and-run fighting style rather than traditional battles.
What is guerrilla warfare?
Nixon’s strategy to turn more fighting responsibility over to South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
In 1970, National Guard troops killed four protesting students at this Ohio university.
What is Kent State University?
This surprise attack during Lunar New Year in 1968 shocked Americans because it showed the enemy was still strong.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This South Vietnamese leader, supported by the U.S., was overthrown in a 1963 military coup.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
College campuses became centers of these demonstrations against the war.
What are antiwar protests?
In 1975, this South Vietnamese capital city fell to communist forces.
What is Saigon?
This amendment lowered the voting age partly because 18-year-olds were being drafted.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Vietnam was divided into communist North and non-communist South along this parallel after 1954.
What is the 17th parallel?
The famous supply route through Laos and Cambodia used by North Vietnam to move troops and weapons.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
These secret government documents revealed leaders had misled the public about the war.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The 1973 peace agreement negotiated largely by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
The Cuban missile crisis was resolved by US promising to __________________ and Soviet agreeing to _____________________________.
US: What are not to invade Cuba & remove some missiles in Italy and Turkey?
USSR: What is remove the nuclear missiles from Cuba?
These 1954 agreements ended French colonial rule in Vietnam but split the country in two.
What are the Geneva Accords?
This chemical sprayed by the U.S. was meant to remove jungle leaves but caused long-term health problems.
What is Agent Orange?
This massive network of hidden tunnels allowed Viet Cong fighters to move, hide, and launch surprise attacks.
What are the Cu Chi tunnels?
What are Secretary of State and National Security Advisor?