THE VIETNAM WAR

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THE VIETNAM WAR

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?

Double Jeopardy

Vietcong's battle tactics and ways that American troops countered their

tactics– 500 PointsWhat 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 PointsWho 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 full-scale invasion of

North Vietnam was his fear of this – 300 PointsWhat 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 PointsWhat 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?