Support For The War

Question 1

What did one journelist say about anti and pro ralley?

Answer 1

They were so similar that you could be walking through a pro war ralley and then go to an anti war ralley and the would be the same

Question 2

What was the red scare?

Answer 2

When many people feared that US communists would start a revolution

Question 3

Give some reasons for support in the war?

Answer 3

Support our troops
We need to fight communism or it will take over
Tell the North Vietnamese to be pacifists
Family member died there, don’t let it be in vein
Fighting for other people’s freedom
I have been there and we need to keep fighting

Question 4

What was someone who loved their country called?

Answer 4

A partiot

Patrioism

Question 5

What were many people taught in school?

How did this effect public opinion to the war?

Answer 5

To be patriotic and to obey their country

Got support for the war

Question 6

Who were hard hat’s?

Answer 6

Nickname given to construction workers

Question 7

When and where did the hard hat’s riot start?

What happened?

Answer 7

8th May 1970 in New York

Construction workers charge out during their lunch break (wearing hard hats) and beat up the protesters

Question 8

What was disapointing in the hard hat riot?

Answer 8

The police did little to stop the violence after the hard hats brack through their line

Question 9

What was the end result of the hard hat riot?

Answer 9

They moved to the city hall where the mayor agreed to fly the US flag at half-mast to comiserate the dead students

Question 10

Who was the mayor of NY in 1970?

Answer 10

John Lindsay

Question 11

What did the hard hat riots lead to?

Answer 11

Questions about is the mayor (John Lindsay) was a strong enough mayor

Question 12

What happened on the 20th May?

Answer 12

The hard hat riot leader (Peter Brennan) led a pro-war ralley outside city hall in NY

Question 13

How many people took part in the hard-hat pro-war riot?

Answer 13

60,000

Question 14

What did the hard-hat pro-war riot lead to?

Answer 14

Brennan and some others being invites to the white house

Brennan would latter bocome Nixon’s Secretary of Labour

Question 15

What was the silent majority?

Answer 15

People who agreed with the Vietnam war but who didn’t activly campaign for the war

Question 16

When did Nixon make a speach about the scilent majority?

Answer 16

3rd November 1969

Question 17

What was the silent majority speach about?

Answer 17

Nixon asked the silent majority to step up

Question 18

How sucessful was the silent majority speach?

Answer 18

Polls the next day showed that 77% of people agreed with his policies in Vietnam

Over 50,000 telegrams and 30,000 letters of support was sent to the White House
Latter spolls show many peopl saw themselfs as part of the silent majority
Public aproval ment that the Senate and the House of representatives passes resolutions which aproved of Nixon’s conduct of the war

Question 19

Why was the silent majority soeach so important?

Answer 19

North Vietnam was negotiatiging

So Nixon could say that although some of his people didn’t like the war
That there was still a lot of support for the war

Question 20

How did politics effect the war?

Answer 20

Whislt LBJ (democrat) was president the democrats were hawks
When Nixon (republican) was in charge the democrats became doces as they wanted to oppose him

However no politition wanted the US to loose and to be seen as weak

Question 21

When the Gulk of Tonkin resolution passed hiw mnay votes were there against it?

Answer 21

2 in the Senate

None in the House of Representatives

Question 22

When was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed?

Answer 22

1964

Question 23

Why was there sometimes support in congress for the war?

Answer 23

Theu kept on funding the war even when they knew the real cost

The mitary kept on ensuring an easy win
Theu didn’ want the US to be deffeated by a small country like North Vietnam