Precursors to War
This is the country that colonized Vietnam in the mid 1800s.
Who is France?
This is a psychological disorder that affects many veterans.
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
What was Kent State College?
This was the term the US used to describe South Vietnamese insurgents; they were the people the US fought against.
Who were the Vietcong?
(I'll also take NLF)
This is the theory that led the United States to support a colonial power in Vietnam.
What is the domino theory?
This was the social class most likely to be drafted during the Vientam War.
Who were the working class?
This was the event President Johnson used as a reason to ask Congress for permission to use military power in Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This was an antiwar organization formed by people who had served in Vietnam.
Who were the Vietnam Veterans Against the War?
This is the name of the South Vietnamese military, who were US allies.
Who was ARVN?
This was the agreement that led to Vietnam being divided into North and South Vietnam.
What were the Geneva Accords?
Soldiers were sometimes given orders to violate international law, such as during the massacre here.
Where was My Lai?
President Kennedy was the first US president to get involved in Vietnam by giving military aid to this country.
Who was France?
Some people who opposed the war returned their draft cards, which sometimes led to this consequence.
What was prison?
This is the term the US military used to describe operations in which villages were demolished and burned in an attempt to locate the Vietcong.
What was search and destroy?
He was the leader of North Vietnam and also the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Although the US claimed this as a victory, around 2,600 US soldiers were killed as part of it.
What was the Tet Offensive?
This is the president who signed the agreement ending the Vietnam War.
Who was President Nixon?
This event in Chicago in 1968 was marked by chaos and protest.
What was the Democratic National Convention?
This is the word for an official reason a person could avoid or postpone the draft.
What was a deferment?
This is the man who became the first leader of South Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
US soldiers and Vietnamese civilians alike were often exposed to this chemical defoliant, which led to high cancer rates.
What was agent orange?
President Johnson made this decision in 1968, in response to the public's disapproval of the war.
What is the decision not to run for reelection?
(Or to withdraw from the presidential campaign)
This was an action taken by President Nixon that was the focus of the protest at Kent State.
What was the invasion of Cambodia?
This was the name of the US campaign to get South Vietnamese civilians on our side.
What was the hearts and minds campaign?