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US History

Vietnam Quiz Review

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Napalm a gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungle.
Land mines The Vietcong also laid their own traps and disassembled and reused U.S. mines.
Dean Rusk Secretary of State under Johnson stressed the view of the defeat of communism
Agent Orange a leaf-killing toxic chemical. The saturation use of these weapons often wounded civilians and left villages and their surroundings in ruins. many would blame Agent Orange for cancers suffered by Vietnamese civilians and American veterans.
Credibility Gap Some critics charged that a credibility gap was growing between what the Johnson administration reported and what was really happening.
Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense under Lydon Johnson
Barry Goldwater Republican opponent to Johnson Barry Goldwater, was an anti-Communist who might push the United States into war with the Soviet Union.
William Westmoreland Kept asking for more troops. West Point Graduate and a vet from Korea WWII. strategy for defeating the Vietcong was to destroy their morale through a war of attrition. They would surrender because of the number of dead.
Search and destroy mission uprooting civilians with suspected ties to the Vietcong, killing their livestock, and burning villages
Goals in Vietnam To end spread of communism
Ho Chi Minh Trail supplying arms to the Vietcong via a network of paths along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that became known as the
Vietnam Draft males had to register with their local draft boards when they turned 18. All registrants were screened, and unless they were excluded—such as for medical reasons—in the event of war, men between the ages of 18 and 26
Hawks Those who felt that they need to unleash military force to win the war.
Doves Those strongly opposed to war and believe the US should withdraw
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