Causes & Early Involvement
The belief that if one country falls to communism, others will follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
Gave the president power to use military force without a formal declaration of war.
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A surprise attack by North Vietnam that showed the U.S. wasn’t winning.
What was the Tet Offensive?
People who opposed the war.
Who were the Doves?
What was the draft?
This Post-WW2 agreement split Vietnam into North and South
What are the Geneva Accords?
This incident gave President Johnson the justification to escalate the war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
The difference between what the government said and what people believed.
What was the credibility gap?
The Vietnam War was the first war to be shown to the American public on this type of device
What is the television?
Limited the president’s ability to keep troops in conflict without Congress.
What is the War Powers Act?
This president sent advisor and financial aid to South Vietnam, but did not step in when President Diem was overthrown?
Who is President Kennedy?
Bombing campaign against North Vietnam at the beginning of the war.
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
What was the My Lai Massacre?
Youth rejecting traditional values and opposing the war.
The Hippie / Counterculture movement?
Political scandal involving President Nixon spying on his political opponents
What was the Watergate scandal?
Leader of North Vietnam that supported communism and wanted to reunite South Vietnam under that ideology
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Military alliance in Southeast Asia to prevent the spread of communism in that region
SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
This chemical used in Vietnam led to many health complications for Vietnamese civilians and US troops following the war
What was Agent Orange?
A major lesson of the Vietnam War showed that these can affect the outcome of a war
What is public opinion and the media?
Lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
A conflict of the Cold War where the US and USSR supported opposing side without fighting each other directly
What is a Proxy War?
President Nixon's plan to gradually withdraw troops from Vietnam
What was Vietnamization?
Classified documents release the public that misled the public about the governments involvement in the war?
What are the Pentagon Papers?
University were student protestors were fired upon by National Guard troops after becoming violent
What was Kent State?
Ended the Vietnam war and led to troop withdrawal?
What were the Paris Peace Accords?