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VietnamUnitFinal
U.S.History Vietnam People Politics Places C
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Term for U.S. Army infantrymen stationed in Vietnam | Grunts |
| U.S. soldiers that were captured and forced to stay at the Hanoi Hilton were known as? | POW |
| Term for the number of enemy soldiers killed | body count |
| The method of going out to find the Vietcong and then killing them | search and destroy |
| The elaborate network of paths, bridges, and shelters that snaked from North Vietnam through Cambodia and Laos into South Vietnam to provide supplies and troops | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| What was the main method of getting men to e in the armed forces during the Vietnam War? | draft |
| What was the name for the long-haired, alienated youths and the flower children of the 1960's; catch phrases were "tune in, turn on, drop out" and "make love, not war" | hippies |
| The site of a massacre | My Lai |
| Which one is LEAST related to the other three: Bay of Pigs, Gulf of Tonkin, Tet Offensive | Bay of Pigs |
| President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" called for: | turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese |
| "Christmas bombings" of 1972 | were the most destructive of the war |