Vietnam War Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Did the Cold War help Virginia's economy? | Yes |
| In what parts of Virginia was military spending most important during the Cold War? | 1) Hampton Roads 2) Northern Virginia |
| What Cold War policy got the U.S. involved in Vietnam? | Containment |
| What European country controlled Indochina as a colony? | France |
| Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement from France? | Ho Chi Minh |
| Why didn't the U.S. like Ho Chi Minh? | Ho Chi Minh was a communist. |
| What type of government did North Vietnam have? | Communist |
| What type of government did South Vietnam have? | Non-communist |
| What was the name of the South Vietnamese communists who wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government? | Vietcong |
| What president gave economic and military aid to the French and later to South Vietnam? | Eisenhower |
| What president began the American military buildup in South Vietnam? | John F. Kennedy |
| What happened to President Kennedy? | Assassinated |
| What president escalated (increased) American military involvement in the Vietnam War? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What anti-communist policy did the United States follow in Vietnam? | Containment |
| How many American troops did the United States have stationed in Vietnam in 1968? | More than 500,000 |
| Who won the 1968 presidential election? | Richard Nixon |
| What was Nixon's pledge in the 1968 presidential campaign? | "Peace with Honor" |
| What was Vietnamization? | Nixon's plan to turn over the war to the South Vietnamese army and withdraw American troops |
| Did Vietnamization succeed or fail? | Failed |
| What two communist countries supplied the North Vietnamese Army? | 1) Soviet Union 2) Communist China |
| What political scandal forced President Nixon to resign? | Watergate |
| What happened in Vietnam? | North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and made it one country under communist rule. |
| Who was president when the Vietnam War ended? | Gerald Ford |
| What did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment do? | Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 |
| Who was President Nixon's most important Secretary of State? | Henry Kissinger |
| What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and communist China in the early 1970s? | Competed for power |
| With what country did President Nixon begin to establish formal diplomatic relations in 1972? | Communist China |
| Who was the leader of communist China in 1972? | Mao Zedong |
| Who was the Soviet Union's leader in 1972? | Leonid Brezhnev |
| What did SALT stand for? | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| Name the Soviet-American discussions to establish limits on the number of nuclear weapons. | SALT talks |
| Name the first treaty to establish limits on the number of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union. | SALT Treaty |
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