Communist leader of North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This President sent more troops to Vietnam than any other.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ)?
Traditional culture believed that this should be the role of women in society.
What is household work (cooking, cleaning, raising children)?
Latitude line that separated North and South Vietnam.
What was the 17th parallel?
Americans (often pilots) who were captured, interrogated, and tortured during the war.
Who were POWs?
Name for the chemical herbicide used by the U. S. in Vietnam with unintended consequences for many of our own soldiers.
What is Agent Orange?
Fear that if we did not stop the spread of Communism in Vietnam that all of Southeast Asia would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
This was the counterculture group that was most associated with drugs and freedom of expression during the 1960s.
Who are the Hippies?
Vietnamese guerilla fighters who ambushed and attacked South Vietnam.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Murder of more than 200 innocent Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops that shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public.
What was the My Lai Massacre?
This country that was in charge of Vietnam before its fight for independence.
What is France?
Nickname of the secretly leaked documents that showed the government was lying to the American public about their plans in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This Democratic presidential nominee was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
This group supported expanding the war in Vietnam, with the U.S. getting more involved?
Who were the Hawks?
Year when Americans first set foot on the moon.
What was 1969?
One of two neighboring countries to Vietnam were part of the Ho Chi Minh trail and were bombed by the U. S.
What are Laos and Cambodia?
Congress signed their rights over to the President to allow for full involvement in Vietnam?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
During an anti-war protest at this Ohio university 4 students were killed and 9 more injured by National Guard troops.
What is Kent State?
This group did not want the U.S. to get directly involved in the war. Named after bird of peace.
Who were the Doves?
Jelly-like explosive liquid that was dropped from U.S. planes to set fire to the Viet Cong hideouts.
What was Napalm?
What was Saigon?
This was the name for Nixon's plan to slowly remove U. S. troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This music festival in New York was the peak of the hippie society in 1969?
What was Woodstock?
Year that the U.S. pulled its combat troops out of Vietnam.
What is 1973?
Place were Lyndon Johnson took his oath of office after JFK was assassinated.
What was Air Force One?