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One of the two presidents who helped the South Vietnamese by sending "advisors"
Who is John F. Kennedy or Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
fear that a Communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast Asian Communist governments
What is domino theory?
100
Group whose strategy included fighting small skirmishes and protracted warfare
What is the Vietcong?
100
These provided for the division of Vietnam into two countries.
What are the Geneva Accords?
100
jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
What is napalm?
200
Winner of the election of 1968
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
The domino theory was strongly linked to this
What is containment?
200
Nixon supporters that included middle class blue-collar workers and conservative youth
What is the "silent majority"?
200
the passing of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution did this
What is give President Johnson war powers (to take all necessary measures to defend against attack)?
200
chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs
What is Agent Orange?
300
President who ordered the secret bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia to reduce the flow of communist supplies.
Who is Richard Nixon?
300
This slowed the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States
What is SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty or Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)?
300
city renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the war was over
What is Saigon?
300
American soldiers killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians here
Where is My Lai?
300
Nightly news coverage of the war on television helped create and enlarge this
What is a credibility gap?
400
First president to involve the U.S. in Vietnam; he aided France because he feared the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
Who is Harry Truman?
400
This was one reason Nixon wanted to normalize relations with China
What is it would drive a wedge between the Soviet Union and China (also acceptable: trade relationship; persuade North Vietnam to negotiate a peace)?
400
Reason a monk set himself on fire
What is protesting discrimination against Buddhists?
400
1968 antiwar protesters and police clashed in Chicago at this event
What is the Democratic National Convention?
400
strategy that led troops to count bodies after battles
What is war of attrition?
500
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South Vietnamese leader whose unpopularity among the South Vietnamese people led the U.S. government to sanction his assassination
500
Kissinger's idea that improving relations with the Soviet Union and China would persuade them to cut back their aid to North Vietnam
What is linkage?
500
Soviet response to Nixon improving U.S. relations with China
What is inviting Nixon to Moscow?
500
Location of France's final stand
Where is Dien Bien Phu?
500
sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?