Fill in the Blank(s)
The ______ Doctrine states the US can and should help all democratic nations under threat from communism.
Trail used to sneak people, food, and supplies from North to South Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Theory: when one country falls to communism, others will follow.
What is Domino Theory?
This event in 1975 officially marked the end of South Vietnam and the start of a unified communist Vietnam.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
Name two chemical weapons used by the United States in Vietnam.
What are napalm, Agent Orange, white phosphorus, etc.?
The ________ ______ is the report leaked to the NYT that detailed the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
In 1970, President Nixon issued the invasion of this Southeast Asian country.
What is Cambodia?
This sort of warfare used ambushes, sabotage, and raids to attack enemy forces.
What is guerilla warfare?
Name one of the universities where American students were killed for protesting the Vietnam War.
What are Kent State OR Jackson State?
This is what France's colony in Southeast Asia was formerly called.
What is French Indochina?
While campaigning, President Nixon described his withdrawal from Vietnam as "peace with _____."
The US President when the Paris Peace Accords where signed, pulling the US out of Vietnam.
Who was Richard Nixon?
People or groups who advocate for peace and oppose war.
What are Doves?
American soldiers entered a Vietnamese village, massacred women, children, and the elderly.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
President Johnson used this incident (when Northern Vietnamese torpedoes attacked US warships) to justify informal military action in N. Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
The Vietnam War, from an American perspective, was the first war to be fully _________.
What is televised?
U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, advocated for U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
Who was Robert McNamara?
Policy under the Nixon administration to shift the blame of the war from the U.S. to the South Vietnam.
What is "Vietnamization"?
This treaty granted Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia independence from France after the First Indochina War.
What are the Geneva Accords?
This piece of legislation put limits on the president's capacities as commander-in-chief.
What is the War Powers Act?
The results of the ___ _________ proved that the Vietnamese still held power in Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The president of South Vietnam from 1955-1963; put into power by the USA and assassinated by the USA (CIA).
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
Stagflation means that these two things are happening at the same time.
What are unemployment and inflation?
Battle in the First Indochina War where the Viet Minh defeated French colonial troops.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
This is the difference between the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong.
What is: the Viet Minh fought against France for independence, and the Viet Cong fought against S. Vietnam & the U.S. to spread communism?