Important People
This president passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
This agreement split Vietnam into North and South Vietnam along the 17th parrallel.
This US main strategy during the war, with the goal of targeting Northern Vietnamese bases was escalated by Richard Nixon escalated.
What is bombing?
This piece of technology helped spread information and outrage about the Vietnam war.
What is television?
This person was the leader of the Viet Cong
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
This agreement included agreed to an immediate cease fire in Vietnam.
What were the Paris Accords?
This US strategy of wearing North Vietnamese soldiers down was ultimately unsuccessful because of the sheer number of North Vietnamese soldiers.
What is a "war of attrition"?
This genre of music characterized the peace movement among Americans.
What is folk music?
This leader was overthrown by his subjects after enraging Bhuddists in a 1963 coup.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon worked together to create this plan of slowly reducing US troops in Vietnam.
What was Vietnamization?
These bombings in late 1972 helped urge a cease fire due to its viciousness.
What were the Christmas Bombings?
This "massacre" on May 4th, 1970 was the inspiration for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio."
What was the Kent State Massacre?
This man was the leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rogue, and came to power in 1976.
Who was Pol Pot?
This new way of thinking about foreign affairs was a consequence of the Vietnam war.
This network of paths and roads helped supply North Vietnamese troops with resources.
What was the Ho Chi Minh trail?
This long term impact of the Vietnam war was caused by outrage over the national draft.
What is an all volunteer army?
This liutenant was charged with the massacre of 300 South Vietnamese civilians in 1971.
Who was William Calley?
This attack proved the failure of Vietnamization by revealing the innability of South Vietnamese soldiers to hold their own against Northern Vietnamese forces.
What was the Easter Offensive?
This operation, launched in 1965, was a U.S. military campaign aimed at destroying North Vietnamese air defenses.
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
This was proposed in 1967 by Lyndon B. Johnson in response to war induced inflation caused by the Vietnam War
What was LBJ's war tax?