The Vietnam War Years

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The Vietnam War Years
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A communist opposition group in South Vietnam
after 1957.
A Who are the Vietcong?
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The network of paths through Laos and Cambodia
which supplied the communist forces in the South.
A What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
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Moving Towards Conflict 300
Despite massive US aid, the French failed to
retake Vietnam and surrendered after the loss of
this outpost.
A What is Dien Bien Phu?
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Moving Towards Conflict 400
While not an actual declaration of war, this
Congressional act granted Johnson broad military
powers in Vietnam.
A What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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Moving Towards Conflict 500
This southern presidents popularity plummeted
because of corruption, failure to promote land
reform, an unpopular strategic hamlet program,
and the relentless persecution of Buddhism.
A Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
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US Involvement and Escalation100
Used extensively by US forces, this is a
gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungle.
A What is napalm?
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US Involvement and Escalation 200
The Secretary of Defense credited with being the
architect of the US involvement in Vietnam.
A Who is Robert McNamara?
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US Involvement and Escalation 300
To defeat the elusive Vietcong guerilla fighters,
US soldiers used this strategy to uproot
civilians from their homes, killed their
livestock and burned their villages.
A What are search-and-destroy missions
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US Involvement and Escalation 400
The commander of US forces in South Vietnam.
A Who is General William Westmoreland?
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As Americas first living-room war, the grim
images of American body bags increasingly
contradicted the optimistic views of the
administration and the military.
A What is the credibility gap?
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A Nation Divided 100
Established during WW I, all males of 18 years of
age must register for military service under this
program.
AWhat is the Selective Service System, or the
draft?
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A Nation Divided 200
In 1967, this American leader attacked the war
and the cruel irony it represented for young
blacks who were dying disproportionately for a
country that still treated them as second-class
citizens.
A Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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A Nation Divided 300
Young followers of this New Left organization
called for the restoration of participatory
democracy and greater individual freedom.
AWhat is Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS)?
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A Nation Divided 400
Not every Vietnam-era pop song was against the
war. In 1966, this song stayed at the top of the
music chart for 5 weeks and was Billboard
magazines song of the year.
A What is The Ballad of the Green Berets?
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A Nation Divided 500
A survey taken is 1967 showed that 70 of
Americans felt that war protests were acts of
A What are acts of disloyalty?
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1968 100
Taking advantage of a week-long truce, Vietcong
guerillas attacked 100 cities, 12 US military
bases, and the US embassy.
A What is the Tet Offensive?
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1968 200
Former Alabama governor running as a third party
candidate captured five Southern states in the
1968 election by championing segregation and
states rights.
A Who is George Wallace?
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1968 300
A public opinion poll taken in February 1968,
showed 60 of Americans now disapproved of
A What is Johnsons handling of the war?
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1968 400
A Minnesota senator who announced he would oppose
Johnsons Democratic nomination for president on
an anti-war platform.
A Who is Eugene McCarthy?
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1968 500
Following RFKs assassination, this loyal
vice-president to Johnson wins the Democratic
nomination
A Who is Hubert Humphrey?
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The End of the War and Its Legacy 100
Nixon and Kissingers plan for the slow
withdrawal of us troops from Vietnam in order for
South Vietnamese troops to take over the war.
A What is Vietnamization?
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In 1968 a US platoon under the command of Lt. Wm.
Calley a massacre of over 200 innocent women,
children and old people occurs in this village.
A What is the village of My Lai?
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The End of the War and Its Legacy 300
In 1970, President Nixon orders the invasion of
this country to clear out the Vietcong and NVA
supply centers.
A What is Cambodia?
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The End of the War and Its Legacy 400
With US troops home from Vietnam, this US
president refused to send help to the South after
the full-scale invasion by the North Vietnamese
in 1975.
A Who is Gerald Ford?
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This 7,000 page document written for Sec. of
Defense Robert McNamara in 1967-68 revealed the
shocking campaign of misinformation and lies
purported to the American people about the war.
A What are the Pentagon Papers?
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College campus where a massive student anti-war
protest led to the wounding of 9 students and the
killing of 4 by National Guardsmen in May of 1970.
A What is Kent State University?
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Eisenhower aided the French in their fight to
regain Vietnam because of this theory.
A What is the domino theory?
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A leave-killing toxic chemical dumped on Vietnam
to uncover the enemy and responsible for the
cancers and birth-defects of US veterans and
Vietnamese civilians.
A What is Agent Orange?
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Americans strongly opposing the war and calling
for the the US to withdraw from Vietnam.
A Who are the doves?
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With 10,000 anti-war protesters in his city and
the memories of the race riots following Dr.
Kings assassination fresh in his mind, this
mayor of Chicago declared, As long as I am
mayor, there will be law and order.
A Who is Chicago Mayor Richard Daley?
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Final Jeopardy
This 1973 act of Congress mandates that the
president inform them within 48 hours of sending
US troops into harms way and that they stay there
no more than 90 days.
A What is the War Powers Act?