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VietnamUnitFinal
U.S.History Vietnam People Politics Places A
Question | Answer |
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Movement that challenged many established values: music, fashion, and literature | Counterculture |
Idea that if one Southeastern Asian country fell to communism then they would all fall to communism | Domino Effect Theory |
Policy during the Nixon administration to reduce American troop involvement by delegating most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese troops | Vietnamization |
Classified Defense Department documents commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967 which detailed the many American blunders and misjudgments in Vietnam. | Pentagon Papers |
This French controlled Vietnamese city fell after a 56-day siege which effectively ended the French control of Indochina | Dien Bien Phu |
Created in December 1960, the North Vietnamese Communist party had organized its supporters in South Vietnam into this revolutionary organization. | National Liberation Front |
What was the chemical defoliant used to decrease the amount of jungle for the soldiers to go through? | Agent Orange |
In August 1969, 400,000 young people gathered in Bethel, New York, for this music festival despite torrential rain; people got "high" on music, sex, and drugs. | Woodstock |
What were the methods used by young men to legally avoid the draft? | Deferments |
What was the radical student group that led a crusade against the Vietnam War? | Students for a Democratic Society |