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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vietnam was controlled by the ________from the 1800's to World War 2. | French |
| Vietnam was part of _____that included Cambodia and Laos | French indo China |
| ___________Formed the Vietminh to fight the Japanese, who had occupied Vietnam during World War 2 | Ho Chi Minh |
| The United States helped the French fight the Vietnamese communists, because of their policy of _______ | Containment |
| The United States believed that if one country became communist, then the surrounding countries would also become communists. This was known as the _______ | Domino affect |
| In 1954 the French were defeated at _____ that basically ended their control of Vietnam. | Dien Bien Phu |
| At the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnamn was divided at the _____parallel | 17th |
| President _____ruled South vietnam and ______ was its capital. | Nguyen Van Thieu / Saigon |
| _____ North Vietnam and ____ was its capital. | Ho Chi Minh / Hanoi |
| The _______ were communists guerilla rebels who fought against the government in south vietnam | vietcong |
| In November 1963 Diem was ________ by the CIA, which was just weeks before JFK was killed in Dallas | assassinated |
| In August 1964 North Vietnamese patrol boats fired at U.S. Navy gunships in the _______ this began the U.S. involvement in Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin |
| The _____ Resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson unlimited control in fighting the war. | Tonkin Gulf |
| General _______ was the American commanding officer in Vietnam | William Westmoreland |
| The United States began bombing strategic targets in North Vietnam during operation________ | Rolling Thunder |
| One of the targets was the _________ that was used to supply Vietcong rebels in the south | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| ________ and __________ was used to clear the jungle, so that soldiers could see the enemy | Agent Orange (herbicide and defoliants) and napalm |
| The biggest problem for American troops in Vietnam was _______ the enemy | Identifying |
| American soldiers did not have objectives to obtain enemy targets or bases, so they went on _______ missions to find the enemy | Search and destroy |
| If there were signs that a village was helping the vietcong, soldiers would burn it down. This was known as a _____ | Zippo raid |
| Enemy ______ was used to show that the Americans were winning the war. | Body Count |
| Over ______ soldiers were dying a week in Vietnam. Many were killed or maimed by _______ | 100 / booby traps |
| ______ we're the Americans who supported the war and the _____ were people against it | Hawks / doves |
| People were opposed to the war because they said that the Vietnamese were fighting a ______ war against foreign aggressors, who were killing innocent ______ in the crossfire, and we were dropping _______ chemicals on their jungles. | Revolutionary / Civilians / toxic |
| Men went to _______, joined the ________ and _________ and went to _______ to get out of fighting the war. | Canada / National Guard / Coast Guard / College |
| The average age of a soldier in Vietnam was ______ | 19 |
| The _______ Amendment was passed, because men were being sent to war and could not vote for the politicians sending them their. | 26 |
| _______ was the killing of officers by his troops | Fragging |
| In January 1968 North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers attacked American bases and South Vietnamese cities during the _____ | Tet offensive |
| The Americans eventually recaptured cities and won, but the doves outnumbered the hawks and Americans began to believe that the war was _______ | Un winnable |
| After the Tet Offensive, President _________ decided not to run for reelection | Lyndon Johnson |
| Many people felt that the information that the government was giving them was wrong. This was know as the ______ | Credibility gap |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Was killed in _______ on April 4th, because he was there supporting a strike by sanitation workers. | Memphis, Tennessee |
| The ________ were Americans who quietly supported the Vietnam War and elected Richard Nixon to the presidency. | Silent majority |
| Robert Kennedy entered the race for President in 1968, but was killed by | Sirhan Sirhan |
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