Beginnings of the
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
This country controlled Vietnam as a colony since the 1800s.
What is France?
Vietnam was a densely covered jungle that allowed the Viet Cong (VC) to use guerilla warfare effectively.
What is Agent Orange?
The anti-war movement argued that this unfairly targeted poor and working-class Americans; used during Vietnam to mobilize thousands of soldiers quickly for combat.
What is the draft?
Who is the President who coined the term "silent majority" and eventually withdrew the US from Vietnam?
Who is Richard Nixon?
Ngo Dinh Diem served as the oppressive President of South Vietnam from 1955 until this happened in 1963.
What is he was assassinated in a coup?
Name of the US President that sent the first combat troops over to fight in Vietnam.
Who is LBJ
Type of warfare fought by the Vietcong in South Vietnam?
What is guerrilla warfare
A company of American soldiers brutally killed mostly women, children, and the elderly in this village on March 16, 1968
What is My Lai?
Many Americans who did not wish to serve in Vietnam and did not want to be drafted would apply for one of these, which exempted them from military service.
What is a deferment?
South Vietnamese communists who rebelled against the South Vietnamese government; used guerilla tactics against US forces in South Vietnam.
What is Viet Cong?
US warships were attacked by the North Vietnamese in this body of water in April 1964.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Offensive military operations undertaken by United States combat units in Vietnam to find and neutralize the enemy, especially when the enemy's strength and disposition had not been fixed precisely.
What are Search and Destroy Missions?
This group opposed the war in Vietnam, believed in free love and music, and rejected their parents' values/morals.
What is the counterculture?
Who won the Vietnam War?
What is North Vietnam?
The US is trying to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. This is known as what Cold War policy.
What is containment?
American soldiers captured by the NVA or VC were considered this, but were not given proper treatment and often faced torture at the hands of their captors.
What are POWs?
This weapon was made out of a mixture of a jellied substance and a burning substance.
What is napalm?
Four students were killed here on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a protest on campus.
Where is Kent State?
Americans were given an uncensored view of the war through this, which in turn decreased support for the war to 29% by 1971.
What are television broadcasts?
The belief that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
What is the Domino Theory?
What is the name of the trail that the North Vietnam Army used to send supplies to the Vietcong?
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
What is the Tet Offensive?
Campaign of systematic bombing of North Vietnam. This bombing would continue off and on for the next seven years.
What is Rolling Thunder?
What is Cambodia?