The Vietnam War Years - Chapter 30

Question 1

Leader of North Vietnam

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

Communist group led by Ho Chi Minh

Answer 2

Vietminh

Question 3

Eisenhower’s explanation for stopping communism

Answer 3

Domino theory

Question 4

Major French outpost captured by the Vietminh

Answer 4

Dien Bien Phu

Question 5

Peace agreement that split Vietnam in two

Answer 5

Geneva Accords

Question 6

Leader of South Vietnam

Answer 6

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 7

Communist rebel group in South Vietnam

Answer 7

Vietcong

Question 8

Network of paths running between North and South Vietnam

Answer 8

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 9

Resolution that allowed President Johnson to fight in Vietnam

Answer 9

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 10

Secretary of defense under Johnson

Answer 10

Robert McNamara

Question 11

Secretary of state under Johnson

Answer 11

Dean Rusk

Question 12

Commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam

Answer 12

William Westmoreland

Question 13

The South Vietnamese military forces

Answer 13

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Question 14

Gasoline-based explosive

Answer 14

Napalm

Question 15

Chemical that destroyed jungle land

Answer 15

Agent Orange

Question 16

Tactic in which U.S. troops destroyed Vietnamese villages

Answer 16

Search-and-destroy mission

Question 17

Situation in which the U.S. public no linger believed the Johnson administration

Answer 17

Credibility gap

Question 18

System for calling people to military service

Answer 18

Draft

Question 19

Name given to the youth movement of the 1960s

Answer 19

New Left

Question 20

Prominent group of the New Left

Answer 20

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Question 21

New Left group that attacked business and government

Answer 21

Free Speech Movement

Question 22

American individual who called for America to withdraw from Vietnam

Answer 22

Dove

Question 23

American individual who supported the war effort

Answer 23

Hawk

Question 24

Series of Vietcong attacks during the 1968 Tet holiday

Answer 24

Tet offensive

Question 25

A Lyndon Johnson adviser who became his secretary of defense

Answer 25

Clark Clifford

Question 26

A Democratic candidate for president in 1968

Answer 26

Robert Kennedy

Question 27

A Democratic presidential candidate who ran on antiwar platform

Answer 27

Eugene McCarthy

Question 28

The 1968 Democratic nominee for president

Answer 28

Hubert Humphrey

Question 29

A third-party candidate in the 1968 presidential election

Answer 29

George Wallace

Question 30

President of the United States, elected 1968

Answer 30

Richard Nixon

Question 31

Nixon adviser who helped negotiate an end to the war

Answer 31

Henry Kissinger

Question 32

President Nixon's plan for ending America's involvement in the war

Answer 32

Vietnamization

Question 33

Those mainstream Americans who supported Nixon's policies

Answer 33

Silent majority

Question 34

Site of massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers

Answer 34

My Lai

Question 35

Site of protest where National guard Killed four students

Answer 35

Kent State University

Question 36

Government documents that showed the government had no real plan for leaving Vietnam

Answer 36

Pentagon Papers

Question 37

Act that forbids the president from mobilizing troops without Congressional approval

Answer 37

War Powers Act