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USHis 16
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Worked to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia | SEATO-South East Asia Treaty Organization |
| Gave President extraordinary war power to take all necessary measures to defend against armed attacks on US forces | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| Location where Vietminh laid siege to and trapped a French garrison | Dien Bien Phu |
| National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters | Vietcong |
| Demanded independence from France and accepted communism | Ho Chi Minh |
| The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its close neighbors would follow | Domino Theory |
| Why did President Truman agree to help France? | He supported colonialism |
| Provided for the division of Vietnam into two countries | Geneva Accord |
| Who refused to participate in the Vietnamese election in 1956? | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| How did Pres. Johnson escallated America's involvement in Vietnam? | By ordering airstrikes |
| Jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large containers to burn anything it touches | Napalm |
| Disagreed with Pres. Johnson's war policies | Doves |
| US Commander in South Vietnam | Gen. William Westmoreland |
| Supported Pres. Johnson's war policies | Hawks |
| A sustained bombing campaign ordered by Pres. Johnson used stop N. Vietnamese from reinforcing Vietcong troops in South Vietnam | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| Dropped on vegetation by American soldiers to defoliate trees and kill food supply | Agent Orange |
| Ho Chi Minh compared his military to this | Tiger |
| Vietcong's war strategy | Fight small skirmishes |
| By the end or 1965, most Americans in Vietnam had been ... | Drafted |
| Why did Pres. Johnson have to cut back his Great Society goals? | The cost of the war in Vietnam was rising |
| Leaked to The New York Times in 1971 | Pentagon Papers |
| This slowed the arms race between the Soviet Union and the US | SALT I-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
| Called for a cease fire and US troop withdrawal from Vietnam | Paris Peace Accords |
| Passed by Congress in 1973 to stop the growth of the "Imperial Presidency" | War Powers Act |
| Four people were killed at this protest | Kent State University |
| This massacre resulted in the death of hundreds of Vietnamese | My Lai |
| Why did Pres. Nixon order the secret bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia? | To reduce the flow of communist supplies |
| In 1970, what did Pres. Nixon do to try to break the stalemate in the peace process in Vjietnam | Ordered ground attacks on Vietcong bases in Cambodia |
| What did the Pentagon Papers reveal? | US leaders misled Congress and the American people about the Vietnam War |
| Results of the end of the Vietnam War | Communists ended up controling Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam |
| Policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions | Detente |
| Top national security political adviser and eventually Sec. of State to US | Henry Kissinger |
| Guerrilla fighters in Vietnam | Vietcong |
| Attack by communist forces on more that 40 Vietnamese cities | Tet Offensive |
| Rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| Anti war candidate who ran for Pres. in 1968 | Eugene McCarthy |
| Chinese premier who held talks with Pres. Nixon | Zhoe Enlai |
| Classified study of American involvement in Vietnam | Pentagon Papers |
| Vietnamese village attacked by American troops | My Lai |
| Vietnam will be divided into two countries | Provision of Geneva Accords |
| Name give to the difference between what Pres. Johnson said and what many journalists reported | Credibility gap |
| The Tet Offensive signaled that this would not end quickly | Vietnam War |
| Focus of Pres Nixon's Peace with Honor policy | End the Vietnam war without abandoning South Vietnam |
| Country Henry Kissinger arranged for Pres. Nixon to visit to improve trade relations | China |
| Purpose of Soviet Union and US signing Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | Ease Cold War Tensions |
| The credibility gap that caused American people to distrust this US Presidents administration. | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Turning point in the war | |
| The name of Nixon's program to empower South Vietnamese forces to assume more combat duties while withdrawing US forces from the country | Vietnamization |
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