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Ch. 30-Vietnam War
Vietnam War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ___________________ ruled Vietnam from the late 1800s until WWII. | France |
| __________________ led the Indochinese Communist Party and fought French, Japanese, and U.S. forces for the independence of Vietnam. | Ho Chi Minh |
| The _________________ was a group, formed by Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups in 1941, that declared its single goal to be Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule. | Vietminh |
| _____________________ was a Vietnamese anti-Communist who declared himself the ruler of South Vietnam and canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam. | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| The _________________ was a pro-Communist South Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousands of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officials. | Vietcong |
| The _______________________________ allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply military arms to the government opposition group in South Vietnam. | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| ____________________ refers to a large group of poor Vietnamese who fled Vietnam after the Communists assumed power. | boat people |
| The _____________________ was a Communist group that seized power in Cambodia after the U.S. invasion of that country unleashed a brutal civil war. | Khmer Rouge |
| As the first secretary of defense in the Johnson administration, ______________________ he helped to craft and guide the U.S. policy in Vietnam. | Robert McNamara |
| ________________________ was the secretary of state in the Johnson administration. | Dean Rusk |
| _______________________ was a trusted friend and adviser of Lyndon Johnson who served as Johnson’s second secretary of defense. | Clark Clifford |
| __________________________ served as Nixon’s national security adviser and top negotiator in Vietnam. | Henry Kissinger |
| ____________________________________ was the U.S. commander in South Vietnam. | William Westmoreland |
| ___________ of Oregon was one of only two senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. | Wayne Morse |
| ___________ was the president who asked Congress for powers to take “all necessary measures” in Vietnam to protect U.S. forces and prevent further aggression. | Lyndon Johnson |
| __________ became president after Richard Nixon was forced to resign. | Gerald Ford |
| ________________was a Minnesota senator and a dove candidate whose excellent showing in the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary surprised the nation. | Eugene McCarthy |
| _____________ was the 1968 Democratic presidential candidate voluntarily dropped out of the race before the national convention took place. | Lyndon Johnson |
| __________ decided to join the Democratic race for the presidency after seeing the surprising results of the 1968 New Hampshire primary, but was later assassinated in June of 1968. | Robert Kennedy |
| ____________ was Lyndon Johnson’s Vice-President who won the Democratic nominee for president in 1968. | Hubert Humphrey |
| ______________ was the former Alabama governor who ran as a third party candidate on a platform supporting states’ rights and segregation. | George Wallace |
| ____________ was the Republican nominee who won the the 1968 presidential race. | Richard Nixon |
| _________ was the mayor of Chicago who mobilized 12,000 police officers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to keep “law and order” outside the Democratic National Convention hall. | Richard Daley |
| _____________ was a civil rights leader and strong opponent of the Vietnam War who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, causing violent riots in 130 cities. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| _____________ was a Palestinian immigrant who assassinated Robert Kennedy because he was angry over Kennedy’s support of Israel. | Sirhan Sirhan |
| When the fort of ____________________ fell to Vietnamese forces, the French began to leave Vietnam. | Dien Bien Phu |
| The _________________________ was the murder of 100 innocent Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops that shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public. | My Lai Massacre |
| The ________________________________ refers to 11 straight days of dropping bombs on Hanoi and Haiphong, two of Vietnam’s largest cities. | Christmas bombings |
| Upon hearing of the __________________________________ , U.S. college students went on the first general student strike in the nation’s history. | invasion of Cambodia |
| The ____________________________ was a massive attack by the Vietcong on over 100 South Vietnamese towns and cities as well as 12 U.S. air bases early in 1968. | Tet Offensive |
| ____________________ was the first extensive U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| The growing youth movement of the 1960s became known as the __________________ , a term that encompassed many different activist groups and organizations. | New Left |
| Founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber in 1959, ________________________________ called for a return to “participatory democracy” and greater individual freedom. | Students for a Democratic Society |
| Founded in 1964 at the University of California at Berkeley, the ______________________ focused its criticisms on what it called the American “machine.” | Free Speech Movement |
| Americans who strongly opposed the war and believed that the United States should withdraw from it were known as ________________. | doves |
| Americans who strongly felt that the Johnson administration wasn’t doing enough to escalate and win the war were known as ___________________. | hawks |
| Critics of Johnson’s policies in Vietnam used the term ___________________________ to describe their distrust of what the Johnson administration reported to the public about the war. | credibility gap |
| National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of campus protesters at _____________________ on May 4, 1970. | Kent State |
| The ______________________________ was a policy initiated by Diem that destroyed villages and moved all villagers to protected areas, away from the Vietcong. | strategic hamlet program |
| To expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped ____________ , a gasoline-based bomb that set fires to the jungles of Vietnam. | napalm |
| The U.S. military used planes to spray ________________________ , a leaf-killing toxic chemical that devastated the landscape of Vietnam. | Agent Orange |
| Conducted by U.S. soldiers, ________________________________________ resulted in the uprooting of Vietnamese villagers with suspected ties to the Vietcong, the killing of their livestock, and the burning of their villages. | search-and destroy missions |
| ________________ refers to an illness of recurring nightmares, headaches, and memory lapses suffered by some Vietnam veterans when they returned home. | delayed stress syndrome |
| _______________ was Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces. | Vietnamization |
| The _________________________ was based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall one after another. | domino theory |
| The _____________________________ was a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel. | Geneva Accords |
| The ___________________________________ granted the U.S. president broad military powers in Vietnam | Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| The ________________________ was a law passed by Congress curbs the president’s power to make war. | War Powers Act |
| Publication of the _________________________________ revealed, among other things, that the Johnson administration had lied to the public about its intentions in Vietnam. | Pentagon Papers |
| In order to help pay for the war, Johnson had to increase taxes and agree to slashing six billion dollars from his ________________________ programs. | Great Society |
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