Unit 6:: JFK, LBJ, and the Vietnam War

Question 1

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 1

the most dangerous passage of the Cold War,

Question 2

Bay of Pigs

Answer 2

Failed invasion of cuba by a group of anti-castro forces in 1961

Question 3

Space Race

Answer 3

the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.

Question 4

Sputnik

Answer 4

was the first artificial Earth satellite.

Question 5

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 5

The person who was arrested and charged with assassinating JFK. He never confessed and was later shot and killed by Jack Ruby.

Question 6

Conspiracy

Answer 6

a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

Question 7

LBJ’s Great Society

Answer 7

domestic political parties

Question 8

“War on poverty”

Answer 8

the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address

Question 9

Bobby Kennedy

Answer 9

Robert Kennedy fought organized crime, supporter of the civil rights movement.

Question 10

Tet Offensive

Answer 10

was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War

Question 11

My Lai

Answer 11

Vietnamese village of My Lai

Question 12

General Westmoreland

Answer 12

illiam Childs Westmoreland was a retired United States Army four-star general, who commanded U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak

Question 13

Anti-War Protest

Answer 13

An anti-war movement is a social movement.

Question 14

Kent State

Answer 14

there on the university’s commons to protest the war. The rally began when the Victory bell was sounded. The Ohio Army National Guard was called in fairly quick to disperse the large crowd that had gathered. However more national guardsmen were called in after the crowd began to throw rocks and other materials at the soldiers. The guardsmen then began to fire tear gas in hopes of dispersing the crowd but due to the wind this had little effect. Then quite suddenly the guardsmen began to fire their weapons upon the students unloading a total of 67 rounds during a period of 13 seconds.

Question 15

Counterculture

Answer 15

is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ from 5 society,

Question 16

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 16

in U.S. history, Congressional resolution passed in 1964 that authorized military action in Southeast Asia.

Question 17

Vietnamization

Answer 17

was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end the U.S.

Question 18

Media War

Answer 18

beginning of technology really used in war

Question 19

The Draft

Answer 19

men had to enroll into the draft to be drafted into the war

Question 20

POW/ MIA

Answer 20

The POW/MIA flag is an American flag designed as a symbol of citizen concern about US military personnel taken as prisoners of war

Question 21

Domino Theory

Answer 21

if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in along

Question 22

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 22

was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Question 23

Viet Cong

Answer 23

was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War

Question 24

Ngo Dihn Diem

Answer 24

first president of South Vietnam.

Question 25

Robert MacNamara

Answer 25

led the U.S. into the Vietnam war

Question 26

N. and S. Vietnam

Answer 26

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Question 27

Geneva Accords

Answer 27

were designed to secure peace in Vietnam but would eventually contribute to war.

Question 28

Ho Chi Minh trail

Answer 28

The Hồ Chí Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia

Question 29

The Immigration Act of 1965

Answer 29

it led to the rapid proliferation of many Asian American ethnic enclaves and communities in the U.S.

Question 30

War Powers Act

Answer 30

was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.

Question 31

Richard Nixon

Answer 31

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign the office.

Question 32

Teach in

Answer 32

is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.

Question 33

Pentagon Papers

Answer 33

papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II