Lets Fight
"Measuring stick" used to determine "success" in Vietnam
Body Count
Policy used to stop spread of communism
Containment
Kennedy places a ________ around Cuba. No one gets in or out
Quarantine
Forces would seek out the enemy, and destroy them and everything around them.
After America leaves the war, what city falls to the North in 1975?
Saigon
Bombing campaign of North Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder
If one country falls to communism, so will the next one
Domino Theory
Event that changes the war in 1968. Shows America isn't telling the truth about the war.
Tet Offensive
Communist fighters from the North. Assembled by Ho Chi Minh.
Vietcong
Music Festival in 1969. Becomes the rallying cry for anti-war movement/hippie movement.
Woodstock
Chemical used to strip bark from trees and destroy vegetation
Agent Orange
President of the North, backed by America. Discriminates against Buddhists, is overthrown and executed.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Describe three problems that led to the Bay of Pigs disaster
Painted planes, time change, Cuban knowledge ,wrong landing zone
Process in which we would train, equip, and supply South Vietnamese soldiers while we withdrew from Vietnam
Vietnamization
What was the parallel line that separated North from South Vietnam?
17th Parallel
First major battle that lets America know this campaign will not be easy
Ia Drang Valley
"False-Flag" attack which allows this to get passed, giving Lyndon Johnson total military control.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Which two countries did America give $400 million at the beginning of the Cold War to dissuade them from Communism?
Greece, Turkey
Describe 2 similarities between the Korean and Vietnam War:
Split in two, fighting for/against Communism. Following theory of Containment.
College where a shooting takes place during anti war protests
Kent State
Who asks for 206,000 more troops?
General Westmoreland
Who killed Kennedy?
Lee Harry Oswald
What led to the Hungarian Uprising of 1956?
Hungarians wanted freedom from Communist led regimes in the Soviet Bloc Eastern Europe.
Describe 5+ problems American soldiers faced in Vietnam
Elephant grass, land mines, greater cause for Vietnam, weather, jungle, weapons malfunction, etc.
District in San Francisco where hippies took over in the "Summer of Love"
Haight-Ashbury