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Background Info
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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

A flammable jellied gasoline substance that combusts and burns. 

What is napalm?

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
These people refused to fight in the war on moral or religious grounds.
What are conscientious objectors?
200
Presidential candidate who had a secret plan of ending the war.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
The peace talks for ending the war occurred in this city.
What is Paris?
300
South Vietnam communist guerillas
What is the Viet Cong?
300

Missions that led US soldiers to track down and eliminate Vietcong bases.

What is search and destroy?

300

Anti-war protesters clashed with police outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

What is the 1968 Chicago Riot?

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 agreement was made by North and South Vietnam to divide the country at the 17th parallel.

What are the Geneva Accords?

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.
What is Kent State University?
400

He was the top military commander of the US forces in Vietnam. Reported success based on body counts.

Who is General Westmoreland?

400

Nixon's term for large group of Americans who were not protesting, and wanted law and order.

What is the silent majority?

500

President Johnson gained special war powers with the passing of this resolution to fight N. Vietnam.

What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

500

Mass killing of civilians by US troops who were ordered to search and destroy a VC stronghold.

What is the My Lai Massacre?

500
Due to his growing unpopularity, he decided not to run for President in 1968.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
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?