Chapter 30 Vietnam War Years Homework Study Guide
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1. How did World War II affect efforts for Vietnamese independence?
2. Who was the revolutionary leader of the Vietnamese Communists?
3. Why did the United States agree to help France fight the Viet Minh?
4. How did the Geneva Accords end the war between the Viet Minh and the French?
5. Why were the elections required by the Geneva Accords never held?
6. Why did the Diem government fail to win the support of the people?
7. Who were the Viet Cong?
8. How did the Viet Cong use the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
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1. What power did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution give the President?
2. How did U.S. involvement in South Vietnam escalate after 1964?
3. What conditions frustrated American soldiers in South Vietnam?
4. How did the Vietnam War differ from World War II?
5. How were Vietnam’s land and climate hard on American troops?
6. How difficult an enemy were the Viet Cong?
7. How and why did American troops destroy the Vietnamese landscape?
8. What was the purpose of American search and destroy missions?
9. What were the effects of search and destroy tactics?
10. What was the Tet offensive?
11. What effect did the Tet offensive have on the attitudes of Americans toward the war?
12. How did the My Lai massacre episode illustrate a break down in morale and discipline among U.S. troops?
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1. Why did some Americans protest against the Vietnam War?
2. How did the draft system increase opposition to the war and link the antiwar movement to the civil rights
movement?
3. Why was Walter Cronkite’s opinion of the war important?
4. How did the Democratic National Convention in 1968 reflect the turmoil of the nation?
5.What campaign promise did Richard Nixon make about the Vietnam war?
6. What effects did the war have in Vietnam?
7.How many U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded in the war?
8. How was the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment connected to the war?
9. Why did Congress pass the War Powers Act?