THE VIETNAM WAR
The War
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People
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Jellied gasoline that
explodes on contact
– 100 Points
What is
napalm?
Chemical that strips
leaves from trees and
shrubs – 200 Points
What is
Agent
Orange?
Improving relations with the Soviet
Union and china to persuade them to
cut back their aid to North Vietnam –
300 Points
What is
linkage?
The Vietminh formed
initially in Vietnam to – 400
Points
What is win
independence
from Japan?
A strategy that led troops
to count bodies after
battles – 500 Points
What were body
counts to show that the
US was winning the war
of attrition?
Soldier whose fate was
undetermined – 100 Points
What is
MIA?
Forces made up of north
and South Vietnamese, but
supplied by North Vietnam
– 200 Points
Who were
the
Vietcong?
Fear that a communist Vietnam
would lead to other Southeast Asian
communist governments – 300
Points
What is the
domino
theory?
This was a military campaign during the Vietnam
War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by
forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam
against South Vietnam, the United States, and
their allies. It was a campaign of surprising
attacks that were launched against military and
civilian commands and control centers
throughout South Vietnam, during a period
when no attacks were supposed to take place–
400 Points
What is the Tet
Offensive?
Vietcong's battle tactics
and ways that American
troops countered their
tactics– 500 Points
What was battle tactics comprised a
flexible mix of guerrilla and conventional
warfare battle tactics from the Vietcong
and it was countered by napalm, agent
orange, and searching for ambushes?
Nixon’s Special assistant
for nation security affairs–
100 Points
Who was
Henry
Kissinger?
Feared the Vietnam War
would draw attention from
the civil rights movement
– 200 Points
Who is
Martin
Luther King?
Democratic Candidate
assassinated in a
California Hotel– 300
Points
Who is
Robert
Kennedy?
Peace negotiator for the
North Vietnamese – 400
Points
Who is Le Duc Tho?
South Vietnams president
at the end of the Vietnam
War – 500 Points
Who is
Nguyen Van
Thieu?
The place where in 1968
antiwar protesters and
police clashed outside –
100 Points
What is Democratic
National
Convention?
When the French left
Vietnam, the U.S. stepped
in to – 200 Points
What was it to be
the principle
protector of the
new government?
The main reason that President
Johnson refused to order a fullscale invasion of North Vietnam
was his fear of this – 300 Points
What is
bringing
China into
the war?
The reason Kennedy felt
the need to step up in
Vietnam – 400 Points
What is the Republicans
accusing the Democrats
of losing China to
communism?
Many government officials
during the Johnson
administration privately
questioned the war while
publicly defending it– 500
Points
What were the
Pentagon Papers?
A massacre of South
Vietnamese civilians by
U.S. troops – 100 Points
What was
My Lai?
It temporarily divided
Vietnam along the 17th
parallel – 200 Points
What were
the Geneva
Accords?
The results of Nixon’s
decision to invade
Cambodia – 300 Points
What is the
repealing of the
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution?
The two events that led
Truman to help France in
Vietnam – 400 Points
What is the fall of China
to communism and the
outbreak of the Korean
War?
He was the democratic
candidate assassinated in
a California hotel – 500
Points
Who was
Robert
Kennedy?