Key Players
This North Vietnamese leader was known as "Uncle Ho" and led the fight against French and American forces.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The 1968 surprise offensive by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, which shifted US public opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The US policy aimed at training South Vietnamese forces to gradually take over combat operations.
What is Vietnamization?
The year the US signed the Paris Peace Accords, leading to the withdrawal of American troops.
What is 1973?
This 1978 film starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken depicted the psychological effects of the Vietnam War.
What is The Deer Hunter?
The US president who drastically escalated American involvement in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The US-backed coup and assassination of this South Vietnamese president occurred in November 1963.
What is the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem?
The controversial 1964 incident that led to the escalation of US military involvement.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
The toxic herbicide used by the US military to defoliate forests, later linked to severe health issues.
What is Agent Orange?
Daliy Double
The anti-war protest song by Creedence Clearwater Revival that criticized the war and the draft.
What is Fortunate Son?
The South Vietnamese president who was overthrown and assassinated in 1963.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
This 1970 expansion of the war into a neighboring country sparked massive protests in the US.
What is the invasion of Cambodia?
The name of the massive aerial bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
The name for the mass evacuation of South Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon.
What is Operation Frequent Wind?
This TV series, set during the Vietnam War, followed the lives of a group of medics and soldiers.
What is Tour of Duty?
The commander of US forces in Vietnam, responsible for implementing the "search and destroy" strategy.
Who is General William Westmoreland?
The 1972 operation aimed at destroying North Vietnamese supply routes by bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
What is Operation Linebacker?
The US president who authorized the "Christmas Bombing" campaign in 1972.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The number of American service members killed during the Vietnam War, approximately.
What is 58,000?
The controversial 1971 publication that revealed US government deception regarding the war.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This US Secretary of Defense, who later expressed regret over the war, was a key architect of US policy in Vietnam.
Who is Robert McNamara?
The final major battle of the war, which led to the fall of Saigon in 1975.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
The act that limited the president's ability to wage war without Congressional approval, passed in response to the Vietnam conflict.
What is the War Powers Act?
The country that the US covertly bombed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, sparking outrage.
What is Cambodia?
This Francis Ford Coppola film, inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, depicted the madness of war.
What is Apocalypse Now?