Presidential Stuff
This president was assassinated before he could decide whether to fully escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This Southeast Asian country was divided at the 17th parallel into communist North and non-communist South.
What is Vietnam?
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly led to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This long period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from about 1947 to 1991.
What is the Cold War?
This movement across college campuses opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the anti-war movement?
This president was in office when the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This North Vietnamese leader became a symbol of communist resistance against the United States.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This president approved the failed Bay of Pigs invasion before escalating involvement in Vietnam.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This city became a major symbol of Cold War division, split into East and West.
What is Berlin?
This system required young American men to serve in the military and became a major source of protest.
What is the draft?
This president introduced the policy of “Vietnamization,” aiming to reduce U.S. troop involvement.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 1964 incident led Congress to give the president broad military powers in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This Cuban leader allowed the Soviet Union to place missiles on his island.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This conflict from 1950–1953 was a “hot war” during the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
This 1970 protest at an Ohio university turned deadly when National Guard troops opened fire on students.
What is the Kent State shootings?
This president resigned from office during the Vietnam era, though not directly because of the war.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This event in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War when the South Vietnamese capital fell.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
This failed 1961 invasion attempted to overthrow Cuba’s communist government.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This term describes the buildup of weapons by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to deter each other.
What is the arms race?
This famous boxer refused the draft and became a symbol of protest against the war.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This president faced the Tet Offensive, which shocked the American public.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This 1968 surprise attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces shocked Americans at home.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This Soviet leader ordered nuclear missiles to be placed in Cuba.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This parallel separates North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This music festival in 1969 became a symbol of peace, protest, and counterculture.
What is the Woodstock?