Important Events
This officially ends the Vietnam War, reuniting the North with the South
What is the Fall of Saigon? (North Vietnamese invasion)
This was a process by which soldiers were required to serve in the military, despite not volunteering.
What is the military draft?
Common term for an anti-war protestor who embraced peace, love, and a whole lot of drugs
What is a hippie?
What is the most important invention of this era that allowed the American public to view the war from their living room?
What is Television?
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Surprise attack from North Vietnamese forces in 1968. This was done on a Vietnamese holiday.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Communist guerrilla fighters dedicated to overthrowing the South Vietnamese government
What is the Viet Cong?
West coast city that was the center of the counterculture movement, free love, and anti-war demonstrations.
What is San Francisco?
What is Domino Theory?
Country that controls Indochina before WW2
What is France?
Event that escalates early US involvement in Vietnam in 1964
What is Gulf of Tonkin (resolution)?
Two things US Army used for deforestation
What are Agent Orange and Napalm?
Athlete who refused induction into the American military in 1967.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This tragic event was carried out by US troops and involved the destruction of a South Vietnamese village and the deaths over 100 men, women, and children. It was hidden from the American public for over a year.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
What two neighboring countries to Vietnam were being passed through by the Viet Cong to supply their guerrilla fighters in the South?
What is Laos and Cambodia?
This meeting in a European city establishes a cease fire and agreement for the withdrawal of US troops
What was the Paris Peace Accords?
Amount of US soldiers at the peak of the war in 1969
What is 500,000?
1969 antiwar music festival
What is Woodstock?
Nixon's plan to involve Cambodia in the war leads to this tragedy on a college campus?
What is the Kent State Massacre?
Name of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song that points out the unfairness and inequalities of the Vietnam Draft
What is Fortunate Son?
The name of the massive US bombing campaign of North Vietnam (1966-1968)
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
President Nixon creates this to make the draft more fair
What is the lottery system?
Provide three draft dodging tactics
What is going to college, religious exemption, medically unqualified, move to Canada?
This reveals US government involvement in Vietnam since the 1950's. This report greatly alters the public's faith in the American government.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Name four of the five presidents of the Vietnam era (1955-1975)
Who are Dwight D Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford?