section 4

Question 0

where did the US become involved in step by step?

Answer 0

Vietnam

Question 1

Vietnam is a narrow country that stretches along the South China Sea. since the late 1800s, what colony has it been?

Answer 1

a French colony

Question 2

who led a fight for independence?

Answer 2

Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese nationalist and a communist.

Question 3

an international peace conference divided Vietnam into two countries. what two?

Answer 3

• communist north Vietnam

- non communist south Vietnam

Question 4

who led south Vietnam?

Answer 4

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 5

what did many peasants begin to join?

Answer 5

the Vietcong- guerrillas who opposed Diem

Question 6

why did Diem loose popular support?

Answer 6

people said he favored wealthy landlords and was corrupt

Question 7

what are guerrillas?

Answer 7

fighters who make hit and run attacks on the enemy

Question 8

in time, who were the Vietcong supported by?

Answer 8

communist north Vietnam

Question 9

American leaders thought that if South Vietnam fell to Communism, neighboring countries would follow, like falling dominoes. What did this idea became known as?

Answer 9

the domino theory

Question 10

During the 1950s and 1960s, Pres. Eisenhower and Kennedy sent financial aid and military advisers to South Vietnam. Why?

Answer 10

to help train the south Vietnamese army

Question 11

What happened a few weeks after Diem was assassinated?

Answer 11

Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassinated

Question 12

Who became president when John F. Kennedy was assassinated?

Answer 12

Lyndon Johnson

Question 13

Even though Johnson increased aid to South Vietnam, what did the Vietcong continue to make?

Answer 13

gains

Question 14

In August 1964, what did Pres. Johnson announce that north Vietnamese had done?

Answer 14

North Vietnamese torpedo boats had attacked an American ship patrolling the golf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam

Question 15

What did Congress pass as a result of the North Vietnamese torpedo boats?

Answer 15

The golf of Tonkin resolution

Question 16

What did the golf of Tonkin resolution allow the president to do?

Answer 16

“To take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack or to prevent further aggression”

Question 17

What did Johnson order?

Answer 17

The bombing of North Vietnam and Vietcong-held areas

Question 18

The role of Americans had changed from advisers to…?

Answer 18

active fighters

Question 19

the war in Vietnam escalated, or _____.

Answer 19

expanded

Question 20

Why did the Vietnam War differ from other wars that Americans had been?

Answer 20

Rather than trying to gain ground, Americans attempted to destroy enemy positions

Question 21

When Americans found any positions, the guerrillas disappeared into the jungle. When Americans left, what did the enemy do?

Answer 21

return

Question 22

What couldn’t American soldiers tell?

Answer 22

Which villagers were Vietcong

Question 23

What faded as American casualties mounted?

Answer 23

Public support for the war

Question 24

For the first time how did Americans watch the war?

Answer 24

On television

Question 25

To raise troops what did United States expand?

Answer 25

the draft

Question 26

Did the draft effect American youth equally?

Answer 26

no

Question 27

What was the country being split between?

Answer 27

hawks and doves

Question 28

Who were doves?

Answer 28

People who opposed the war

Question 29

Who were the Hawks?

Answer 29

People who supported the war

Question 30

What did many people want the huge sums of money to be spent on instead of on the Vietnam War?

Answer 30

Social programs at home

Question 31

What did the surprise attacks by cities throughout South Vietnam by the Vietcong became known as?

Answer 31

The Tet Offensive

Question 32

What did the Tet Offensive show?

Answer 32

Even with half a million American troops there, no part of South Vietnam was safe from the Vietcong

Question 33

When Richard Nixon took office as president why did he widen the war?

Answer 33

He hoped to weaken the enemy

Question 34

What moves by Pres. Nixon plunged Cambodia into its own Civil War?

Answer 34

Nixon ordered bombing of communist bases in neighboring Cambodia

Question 35

What did Nixon finally began to do?

Answer 35

Turn the war over to South Vietnam and withdraw American troops

Question 36

Where were peace talks held? What two sides agree on?

Answer 36

Paris. cease-fire agreement

Question 37

When Communist forces captured Saigon, what did they rename it?

Answer 37

Ho Chi Mihn City

Question 38

Who won the Civil War in Cambodia?

Answer 38

Khmer Rouge

Question 39

How many American soldiers lost their lives?

Answer 39

more than 58,000

Question 40

How many Vietnamese soldiers died?

Answer 40

more than a million

Question 41

How many Vietnamese civilians died?

Answer 41

half a million

Question 42

Who’s economy did the war shatter?

Answer 42

Vietnamese

Question 43

Where did hundreds of thousands of people flee?

Answer 43

Vietnam and Cambodia

Question 44

Many refugees escaped in small boats. What happened to many of these boat people?

Answer 44

They drowned or died of hunger and thirst

Question 45

When boat people made it to safety, where did some settle?

Answer 45

the US

Question 46

Did the war produce victory?

Answer 46

no

Question 47

hi

Answer 47

keep going cam (:
you will get a good grade on this!
relax
you can do it <3

Question 48

The war divided the nation and left Americans wondering how far the United States should go to fighting what?

Answer 48

communism