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Vietnam War
Study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If one nation becomes Communists, nearby countries will also fall to communism. | Domino Theory |
| The Vietcong was a group of North Vietnamese that fought in South Vietnam against. | US |
| What did Kennedy intend to do by establishing the Peace Corps. | Help developing countries by digging wells and schools. |
| This was a built to separate East and West Berlin in Germany & 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 Armstong |
| 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, his gave the president 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 North Vietnam when there was supposed to be a cease fire due to Vietnam New Years. | Tet Offensive. |
| Americans were divided over their opinions on US involvement in Vietnam War . | hawks |
| The ones against the war were called.... | doves |
| Dues to the mistrust in the government officials, the Act was passed which required the president to get congressional approval before committing US troops to an armed struggle. | War Powers Act |
| In the new election, they tried to appeal to young people that were against the war. The -- Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 . | 26th |
| Antiwar feelings continue to grow, and a secret government document was published revealing that U.S officials had been lying to the American public about the progress of the wars for years. The 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. | 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 sending troops, which made Americans MAD. | Richard Nixon |
| What was the group call 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. | John F. Kennedy |
| What Cold War crisis occurred where US trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader. | Bay of Pigs |
| What Cold War crisis occurred when Soviets planted missiles on Cuba facing toward 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. They took over their capital and named 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 |
| Nontraditional tactic of warfare used by North Vietnamese / Vietcong in war where they used what? | booby traps and attacking small groups |
| 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? | JFK, Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson |
| Which countries are still communist today? | China, Laos, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam |
| Most of the Cold War was fought to prevent the "C" word from spreading? What is the "C" word? | Communism |
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