Vietnam War
When did the Vietnam War end?
1975
When did the U.S. first send combat troops to Vietnam?
1965
How did one legally escape a draft?
You had to be a college student.
Who was the leader of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the theory that if one Communist country falls to Communism another will fall and another and so on?
Domino Theory
What resolution gave LBJ more war powers in Vietnam?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who was the president elected around the middle of the Vietnam War?
Richard Nixon
What age do men have to register for the draft?
18
Who helped support South Vietnam?
The U.S.
Those that fled mainly to Canada to avoid the draft were called what?
Draftdogers
What were the war tactics called that were used by North Vietnam to attack U.S. troops?
Guerrilla War
What president did not run for re-election in part because of the turmoil of the Vietnam War?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What did the draft and events like the Kent State shooting continue to create in America?
Anti-War Sentiment
What was the capital city of South Vietnam?
What historical event on an Ohio campus called for an increase in anti-war demonstrations?
Kent State Shooting
Vietnam was originally divided at what numbered parallel line?
17th Parallel
How were young men drafted into the Vietnam War?
a draft lottery
Communist North Vietnam was supported by what two major Communist countries?
China and the Soviet Union
What army supported the leader of South Vietnam and was a U.S. ally?
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
What Nixon policy tried to get the South Vietnamese to pick of the slack of fighting?
Vietnamization
The capital of South Vietnam was Saigon. What was the name change after Vietnam fell to the Communists?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the name of the insurgence group fighting for the North Vietnamese in South Vietnam?
Vietcong
What other country did we bomb next to Vietnam?
Cambodia
Why was the South Vietnam leader (Ngo Dinh Diem) such an unpopular figure and later assassinated?
He was corrupt and he persecuted Buddhists.
Due to the Vietnam War draft, what Amendment said that those that are 18 can vote?
26th Amendment