Pre-1960
Increased U.S. Involvement
A Divided Nation
1968
The End of the War
100
Name of the nationalist who fought France and Japan for Vietnamese independence.
What is Ho Chi Minh.
100
An advantage that the Vietnamese Army had over the U.S. army.
What is knowledge of the land, traps, spies, tunnels, etc.
100
Gaining college deferments, getting physicals falsified, and moving to Canada were some of the ways American men did what?
What is avoided the draft.
100
Midwestern city where the 1968 Democratic National Convention was held and riots broke out between police and protesters.
What is Chicago.
100
The name of President Nixon's German-born National Security Advisor who helped plan the end of American involvement in Vietnam.
What is Henry Kissinger.
200
How President Eisenhower explained the spreading of of communism in Southeastern Asia.
What is the domino theory.
200
Name of the U.S. general who called for more and more troops to Vietnam.
What is William Westmoreland.
200
What were Americans who felt that the U.S. wasn't using enough military force in Vietnam called?
What is hawks.
200
The name of the U.S. Presidential candidate who was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, CA.
What is Robert F. Kennedy.
200
These papers showed that plans were made to enter Vietnam even as President Johnson said he would not enter the U.S. into the war, among other things.
What is the Pentagon Papers.
300
What the U.S. initially offered to aid France in the effort to regain control of Vietnam after WWII.
What is economic aid.
300
Name of a gasoline based bomb that was used to set fire to the Vietnamese jungle.
What is napalm.
300
This group of young people, along with the Free Speech Movement (FSM), voiced their opposition over corporations and large government overtaking America.
What is Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
300
Name of the North Vietnamese offensive at the beginning of 1968 that further increased the Johnson Administration's 'credibility gap' with the American public.
What is the Tet Offensive.
300
The university in Ohio where 4 people were killed by the National Guard after rocks were thrown at them.
What is Kent State University.
400
Name of the agreement that separated Vietnam into a North and South.
What is the Geneva Accords.
400
Chemical used to destroy the Vietnamese jungle that was later blamed for a number of health problems for U.S. veterans and Vietnamese civilians.
What is Agent Orange.
400
The Creedance Clearwater Revival song 'Fortunate Son' discusses what seemingly unequal aspect about the draft?
What is the income gap (working-class war).
400
1968 Presidential candidate who carried Arkansas along with four other southern states.
Who is George Wallace.
400
The name of the plan that called for a gradual withdrawal of American troops in Southern Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization.
500
Communist opposition group in South Vietnam who fought against Diem's government and later the U.S.
What is the Vietcong, or NLF (National Liberation Front).
500
The resolution that gave President Johnson a "blank check" to escalate fighting in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
500
The activist youth movement of the 1960's was known as this.
What is the New Left.
500
Name of the village where a massacre of Vietnamese citizens by an American platoon took place in March of 1968, but wasn't found out by the public until November, 1969.
What is My Lai.
500
This happened on March 29, 1973.
What is the last American troops left Vietnam, ending the war for the U.S.