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Vietnam war
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If one nation becomes communist, nearby countries will also fall to communism | domino effect |
| the Vietcong was a group of North Vietnamese that fought in south Vietnam | US |
| What di Kennedy intend to do by establishing the Peace Corps | help developing countries by digging wells and schools |
| This was built to separate East and West Berlin in Germany and stood for nearly 3 decades | Berlin wall |
| What countries were in a space race | US and SU |
| who was the 1st person to travel into space | Russian Yuri Gagarin |
| who was the 1st person to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Who was leading the North Vietnamese that promoted communism that later had a city named after him in South Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| After gunfire was exchanged in the Gulf of Tonkin, this gave the president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any army attack against the forces of the US leading Johnson to expand US role in Vietnam to stop Communism spread | Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| A surprise attack all over South Vietnam launched by Noth Vietnam when there was supposed to be a cease-fire due to Vietnam New Years (this really caused doubt in Americans about whether or not we should be in this war) | Tet Offensive |
| Americans were divided over their opinions on US involvement in Vietnam war. The supporters for the war were called ________ and the ones against | hawks and doves |
| If one nation becomes communist, nearby countries will also fall to communism | domino effect |
| the Vietcong was a group of North Vietnamese that fought in south Vietnam | US |
| What di Kennedy intend to do by establishing the Peace Corps | help developing countries by digging wells and schools |
| This was built to separate East and West Berlin in Germany and stood for nearly 3 decades | Berlin wall |
| What countries were in a space race | US and SU |
| who was the 1st person to travel into space | Russian Yuri Gagarin |
| who was the 1st person to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Who was leading the North Vietnamese that promoted communism that later had a city named after him in South Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| After gunfire was exchanged in the Gulf of Tonkin, this gave the president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any army attack against the forces of the US leading Johnson to expand US role in Vietnam to stop Communism spread | Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| A surprise attack all over South Vietnam launched by Noth Vietnam when there was supposed to be a cease-fire due to Vietnam New Years (this really caused doubt in Americans about whether or not we should be in this war) | Tet Offensive |
| Americans were divided over their opinions on US involvement in Vietnam war. The supporters for the war were called ________ and the ones against the war were called ________ | hawks and doves |
| Due to the mistrust in government officials, the ___ ______ Act was passed which required the presidents to get congressional approval before committing US troops to an armed struggle | war powers |
| in the new elections, they tried to appeal to young people that were against the war. The ____ amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Nixon won a second term. | 26th |
| Antiwar feelings continue to grow and a secret government document was published revealing that U.S. officials had been lying to american public about the progress of the wars for years. these documents were known as the | pentagon papers |
| The plan was to pull US troops from Vietnam and have South Vietnamese army take over all the fighting in the war in vietnam. this strategy was called what | Vietnamization |
| who won presidential election after Johnson that promised to restore order and bring peace with honor to Vietnam, but didn't want to be the 1st president to "lose" a war (so he really kept sending troops, which made Americans MAD) | Richard Nixon |
| What was the group called that fought for individual freedoms, peace, nonviolence, and community sharing | hippies |
| Who took over as president after Eisenhower and was faced with the initial Cold War crisis, but was later assassinated | JFK |
| What Cold War crisis occurred where US trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader (this didnt go over to well) | Bay of Pigs |
| What cold war crisis occurred when soviets planted missiles on cuba facing towards US, which was only 90 miles away, but later removed them and signed a treaty banning aboveground testing of nuclear weapons | cuban missile crisis |
| One effect of the my lai massacre (where American soldiers opened fire, killing about 500 unarmed villagers, including women and children was what | Americans began to question US involvement in Vietnam |
| What happened at the end of the war when NV took over SV (this was a slap in the face) they captured SV's capital, Saigon, and renamed it what | Ho Chi Minh city |
| Is Vietnam separate today and what kind of government do they have | No, they are not separate, and they have a communist government |
| What happened to JFK even before we sent troops into Vietnam and Lyndon Johnson took over as president leading the deployment of US troops | he was assassinated |
| the US was always on what side of all countries that were divided by communism | South and West |
| What caused the Vietnam to be SO brutal for the US soldiers fighting there | guerilla warfare - Vietcong |
| who were the 4 presidents during the cold war | Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon |
| which countries are still communist today | Vietnam, China, Laos, North Korea, Cuba |
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