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The man that took the presidential office in 1969
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
Ohio National Guard shot and killed 4 students in a war protest in this University
What is Kent State?
100
The country that most scared draftees fled to.
What is Canada?
100
A country that borders Vietnam
What is Cambodia, Laos, or China?
100
Writer of the song 'Merry Christmas, War is Over' in 1971.
Who is John Lennon?
200
The South Vietnamese revolutionary leader who sought to free his country from colonialism.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
A 1969 USDA report showed that use of this herbicide showed a significant potential to increase birth defects
What is Agent Orange?
200
The college where nation guardsmen open fired.
What is Kent State?
200
A herbicide used in Vietnam until 1971, despite containing the lethal chemical Dioxin, which was banned by the U.S. department of agriculture for use in herbicides in the U.S. in 1968.
What is agent orange? During “Operation Ranchhand” in the summer of 1971, 11 million gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed containing 240 pounds of Dioxin, and destroying the vegetation in over 1/7th of the country.
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Time Magazine's man of the year for 1971.
Who is Richard Nixon?
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An army of soldiers in South Vietnam that fought against their government and was supported by the North Vietnamese government.
What is the Viet Cong?
300
On November 17, 1970 the United States Army charged 14 officers with suppressing information related to this incident.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
300
The program that was an attempt by U.S. sympathizers to infiltrate villages thought to be sympathetic to the NLF
What is the Pheonix Program?
300
The year in which the number of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam exceeded the men killed in the Korean War.
What is 1969?
300
The hit song written and recorded by Cat Stevens in 1971 where he has been 'thinking about the good things to come.'
What is Peace Train?
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The head of the U.S. negotiating team that made the statement "peace is at hand" shortly before election day in 1972.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
400
On June 17th 1972 5 men were caught trying to break into the offices of the Democratic National convention at this hotel which shares the same name as the scandal that resulted from it.
What is the Watergate Hotel?
400
The operation that called for 11 millions gallons of the lethal chemical 'Agent Orange' to be sprayed on Vietnamese crops.
What is Operation Ranchhand
400
The 3 day operation in 1972 in which the U.S. dropped approximately 20,000 tons of bombs.
What is Operation Linebacker?
400
Famous politician that was a prisoner of war in Vietnam from 1967 to 1973?
Who is John McCain?
500
The man who ordered his troops to enter the village of My Lai firing, even though there was no evidence of enemy fire. He was charged with murder in the September of 1969.
Who is Lt. William Calley?
500
On June 13 1971 the New York Times began publishing the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. This is what this confidential history was known as.
What is the Pentagon Papers?
500
Nixon's desired policy to enable South Vietnam to take a greater responsibility for the war.
What is Vietnamization?
500
The secret mission that was OK'ed by President Nixon in which the U.S. bombed Cambodia in an attempt to destroy communist supply routes and base camps.
What is Operation Breakfast?
500
The famous music festival held in 1969 in the town of Bethel, New York.
What is Woodstock?