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Conflict at Home
Leaders
End of the War
100
Fear that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism, others would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
100
Explosives that threw pieces of their thick metal casings in all directions
What is a fragmentation bomb?
100

Terms used to describe senators for and against the war.

What are Hawks and Doves?

100
Leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
100
Policy of removing US troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese soldiers.
What is Vietnamization?
200
This European country held Vietnam as part of their imperial power until 1954.
What is France?
200
A surprise attack of the North Vietnamese on key Southern cities during Lunar New Year.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200

What is the twisting of facts by political leaders at the time. Overall disconnect between media and the government.

What is the credibility gap? 

200
Presidential candidate who had a secret plan of ending the war.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200

How is are Progressive Era  and the Great Society comparable?

Answers may vary 

_ They both focus on reform and new agencies for welfare 

300
South Vietnam communist guerillas
What is the Viet Cong?
300
Johnson's Great Society included many programs two being , Medicaid and Medicare. Provide the definition for both.


(no need for a "what is"

Medicare: Provides free and inexpensive health insurance to those over 65 years old

Medicaid: Health benefits to certain, low income people

300

Kennedy's term for the new push for a youthful and vigorous outlook of govern\mental policy. The most notable event being the space race.

What is the New Frontier?

300
Kennedy's Secretary of Defense who laid the ground work for American being prepared to enter the war.
Who is Robert McNamara?
300
Due to the result of the Vietnam War, communism spread into these two nations as well.
What are Laos and Cambodia?
400

This supreme court case ruled a confession can not be used in a court case unless their rights have been said to them.

What is Miranda V. Arizona

400
Herbicide that has left a last affect on the people, animals, and terrain of Vietnam
What is Agent Orange?
400

Violence between students and National guardsmen at this university brought more attention to the anti-war cause.

Specifically over the My Lai Massacre and Cambodia 

What is Kent State University?

400
He increased the military advisers to Vietnam to around 16,000.
Who is John Kennedy?
400

This piece of legislation limited a presidents power during times of conflict

What is the War Powers Act 

500
Johnson gained super-presidential powers with the passing of this resolution.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
Onslaught against villagers by US troops, frustrated by the circumstances of the war in Vietnam.
What is the Massacre at My Lai?
500

This North Vietnamese attack that causes the perspective shift of many Americans 

What is the Tet Offensive?

500
He led non-communist South Vietnam until he was assassinated.
What is Ngo Din Diem?
500

Classified government study of American involvement during the war, causing the American people to mistrust the government.

What are the Pentagon Papers?