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Why did Congress pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
What is they were mislead by President Johnson
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What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment accomplish?
What is lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
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What made the ground war in Vietnam so difficult?
What is U.S. soldiers often had a hard time identifying the enemy (Vietcong often looked like civilians)
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Nixon believed he had the backing of the ______________________________
What is silent majority
100
Country that controlled Vietnam during WWII
What is France
200
Belief that if one country fell to communism, other surrounding countries would also fall to communism
What is the domino theory
200
Why did President Kennedy send advisers to aid Vietnam?
What is to display the United State's strength and resolve to stop the spread of communism
200
Bombing campaign over North Vietnam that targeted the Ho Chi Minh trail, military bases, and airfields
What is Operation Rolling Thunder
200
Why did college enrollment rise during the Vietnam War?
What is students received draft deferments
200
What was the main purpose of spraying Agent Orange?
What is to expose areas of the Ho Chi Minh trail hidden by the jungle
300
authorized the president to take all necessary steps to defend U.S. interests in Vietnam
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
300
________________ were people who supported the Vietnam War, while _________________ were people who opposed the Vietnam War
What is hawks and doves
300
Program intended to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people by providing medical care, assistance building infrastructure, and warnings before any military attacks
What is pacification
300
Helped change public opinion of the war in Vietnam
What is media coverage of the war generated anti-war sentiment and protests
300
Group organized by Ho Chi Minh during World War II to resist the Japanese and the French
What is the Vietminh
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How did Ho Chi Minh win the support of North Vietnam?
What is redistribution of land to the peasants
400
Helped provide closure and healing for Americans after the Vietnam War
What is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
400
Strategy of turning over more of the fighting in Vietnam to the South Vietnamese while gradually bringing U.S. troops home. Also, Nixon hoped this would allow the South Vietnamese to establish an anti-communist government.
What is Vietnamization
400
Proved that the United States government had been misleading/lying to the American public about the Vietnam War
What is the Pentagon Papers
400
Limited the president's ability to commit troops to foreign conflicts
What is the War Powers Act
500
What was the Tet Offensive and its effects?
What is a series of coordinated Vietcong-led attacks in South Vietnam (mainly in urban areas). Proved that no part of Vietnam was safe from attack, it caused Americans to doubt its policies in the war, and it showed that the Vietnamese would not be willing to give up easily
500
Name 3 difficulties the American military faced fighting in Vietnam
What is 1.) Vietcong guerrilla warfare tactics 2.) Vietcong knew the local geography 3.) Vietcong had underground tunnels that protect soldiers and supplies 4.) U.S. troops could not tell the difference between civilians and enemy (would often act friendly and then would attack or set traps) 5.) U.S. tactics often alienated civilians (which made it easy for the Vietcong to recruit new members)
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What effect did media coverage of the Vietnam War have on the American public?
Contradictions between media coverage and government reports influenced many Americans to turn against the war. Also, antiwar protests became more acceptable to mainstream America.
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What was the Tonkin Gulf Incident?
What is an "attack" on the the USS Maddox by the North Vietnamese which caused Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and helped start the Vietnam War
500
RANDOM! Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1936
Who is Adolf Hitler