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Communist leader who organized a guerrilla army to fight to reunify Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
won the 1968 presidential election on a campaign to unify the nation and restore law and order
Richard Nixon
Democratic candidate who was assassinated by an Arab nationalist
Robert Kennedy
pro-Western leader of South Vietnam early in the war who was overthrown in a coup and executed
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nixon’s special assistant for national security affairs
Henry Kissinger
criticized America’s involvement in the Vietnam War and the disproportionate number of African American deaths
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A main reason President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam was his fear that it would bring what country into the war?
China
In South Vietnam, a monk set himself on fire to protest what?
discrimination against Buddhists.
The purpose of Agent Orange was to
destroy the Vietcong’s ability to hide in jungles.
With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect, handed war powers to who?
The President
The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to win independence from what country?
Japan
The Vietcong used ___________________—troops who blended in with the civilian population and used tactics such as ambushes and booby traps.
guerrillas
Who overthrew the Diem government in 1963?
a group of Vietnamese generals
How did the Vietnam War lead to the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Draftees argued that if 18 was old enough to fight, it was old enough to vote.
The Vietcong’s power continued to increase in part because of opposition to who's government?
Diem's
American commander in South Vietnam
William Westmoreland
The ___________________ called for elections to unite North Vietnam and South Vietnam under a single government.
Geneva Accords
Why was Diem’s South Vietnamese government so unpopular?
Diem discriminated against his country’s Buddhist population.
How did President Kennedy escalate the war in Vietnam?
He increased the amount of troops in Vietnam
former Defense Department worker who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times
Daniel Ellsberg
outspoken segregationist who ran as an independent candidate in the 1968 election
George Wallace
Why did France ask for U.S. assistance against the Vietminh?
France wanted to regain its former colony but was losing ground.
critics of the war who wanted the U.S. to pull out of Vietnam
Who were the "doves"?
The process of slowly withdrawing U.S. troops and leaving South Vietnam to fight most of the war was called
Vietnamization.
peace negotiator for the North Vietnamese
Le Duc Tho