This theory states that if one country falls to communism the countries surrounding it will soon follow.
What is domino theory?
100
The name of the conference whose goal was to form a peace agreement and arrange for the future of Indochina.
What is the Geneva Conference.
100
This targeted anything that could be useful to North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
100
This independent candidate was an important factor in the 1968 presidential election.
Who is George Wallace?
100
College enrollment rose because this was instituted to raise the level of troops needed in Vietnam.
What is the draft?
200
The reason that Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
What is President Johnson misled them.
200
The name of the program designed to win the "hearts and minds" of the South Vietnamese. It failed because the Vietnamese resented being forced from their villages and having their homes destroyed.
What is pacification?
200
This is why the ground war was so difficult to fight.
What is civilians often joined the Vietcong, so it was difficult for U.S. troops to discern the enemy.
200
The division of this party led to the election of Nixon in 1968. Because of the division within this party, Johnson withdrew from the presidential race.
What is the Democrat Party?
200
This lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
300
This country controlled Vietnam/French Indochina prior to the Vietnam war.
What is France.
300
A dove who believed that the war in Vietnam pulled money and resources away from the Great Society programs.
Who is Martin Luther King?
300
This was most influential in shaping public opinion of the war.
What is media coverage?
300
Nixon pursued Vietnamization because he believed he had the backing of this.
What is the silent majority?
300
The dedication of this represented an important factor in healing the divisions created in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
400
He organized the Vietminh and gained support in North Vietnam by redistributing land from large estates to peasants.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400
A hawk.
Who is Curtis Lemay?
400
The Tet Offensive targeted these places.
What are urban areas?
400
Nixon hoped this would give South Vietnamese leaders enough time to create a stable anti-Communist government.
What is Vietnamization?
400
True or False? Protesters outside of the Democratic convention hoped to persuade delegates to reject Johnson's Vietnam war policies.
What is True?
500
The Vietcong was formed in opposition to this leader. Kennedy also sent advisers and aid to Vietnam to overthrow this leader.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
500
This limited the President's ability to commit troops to foreign conflicts.
What is the War Powers Act?
500
Troops were unprepared for the Tet Offensive because of the attack on this place.
What is Khe Sanh?
500
These proved to the American people that the government had been lying about the Vietnam War for years.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
500
The communist forces that took control of Cambodia in 1975.