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President Nixon's plan for a gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties.
a. retreat
b. Americanization
c. Vietnamization
d. expansion
c. Vietnamization
He led North Vietnam's fight to reunify North and South Vietnam.
a. Ho Chi Minh
b. Genghis Kahn
c. Mao Zedong
d. Emperor Hirohito
a. Ho Chi Minh
A jellied gasoline that covered large areas in flames.
a. agent orange
b. napalm
c. isopropyl
d. fermented grains
b. napalm
A government, especially an authoritarian one.
a. regime
b. democracy
c. republic
d. self-government
a. regime
Who was the U.S. Puppet in South Vietnam?
a. ho chi minh
b. mao zedong
c. Xi Jinping
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
d. Ngo Dinh Diem
A village in South Vietnam wherein 1968 American forces opened fire on unarmed civilians; U.S. soldiers killed between 400 and 500 Vietnamese.
a. Saigon
b. My Lai
c. Hanoi
d. Hue
b. My Lai
A person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
a. dove
b. bear
c. hawk
d. bull
c. hawk
A herbicide that destroys plant life.
a. agent orange
b. napalm
c. isopropyl
d. fermented grains
a. agent orange
The United States became involved in Vietnam because
a. it wanted to keep France as an ally.
b. it wanted to contain the spread of Communism.
c. Both a and b.
d. None of the above.
c. Both a and b.
Khmer Rouge was a radical Communist faction in what country?
a. Vietnam
b. China
c. Indonesia
d. Cambodia
d. Cambodia
Classified U.S. government study that revealed American leaders involved the United States in Vietnam without fully informing the American people; leaked to the New York Times in 1971.
a. The Pentagon
b. Pentagon Papers
c. Secret Service Section
d. Selective Services
b. Pentagon Papers
A person who opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
a. dove
b. bear
c. hawk
d. bull
a. dove
Which country controlled Vietnam as a colony since the 1800s.
a. Britain
b. France
c. Spain
d. Portugal
b. France
Détente: foreign policy of decreasing tensions with the Soviet Union. Which executive administered this policy?
a. Ford
b. LBJ
c. JFK
d. Nixon
d. nixon
The Apollo program was a plan to...
Send U.S. astronauts to the moon before the Soviet Union could.
His communist government and ties to the Soviet Union were a source of conflict between Cuba and the United States.
a. Fidel Gomez
b. Alias Castro
c. Fidel Castro
d. Carlos Leon
c. Fidel Castro
American public's growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War.
a. Unbelievable
b. Credibility Gap
c. Misunderstanding Gap
d. Delusional Theory
b. Credibility Gap
The authority to use force to defend American troops.
a. SEATO
b. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
c. Domino Theory
d. By any means necessary
b. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Communist assault on a large number of South Vietnamese cities in early 1968.
a. Lunar Attacks
b. Tet Defensive
c. Tet Offensive
d. My Lai Massacre
c. Tet Offensive
The idea that if a nation falls to communism, its closest neighbors will also fall under communist control.
a. Domino Effect
b. Falling Domino
c. Domino Theory
d. Gravity Theory
c. Domino Theory
Explain what the disadvantages the U.S. faced in the Vietnam war.
Unpopular government in South Vietnam
Divided U.S. public opinion and little international support
Explain the difference between yippies and hippies.
remember yippies are hippies that are politically active
Explain what a coup (coup d'etat) is?
Seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, rebel group, military, or a dictator.
Please explain the Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 anti-Castro exiles trained by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs on the south shore of Cuba in an attempt to start an uprising, but failed and questioned the effectiveness of Kennedy's foreign policy.
Explain who Walter Cronkite is.
American Broadcast Journalist
Anchor of the CBS Evening News
“the most trusted man in America."
Any of these answers apply