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Vietnam Conflict Flashcards

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The United States supported the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem

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True

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Pres. Truman was the first president to give aid to Vietnam

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True

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Congress gave Pres. Johnson complete control of the Vietnam conflict, even reducing their powers

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True

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Pres. Johnson waits until the 1968 election to escalate American military involvement

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False

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The Tet offensive place January 30, 1968

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True

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The US and South Vietnam won the Tet offensive

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True

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The Tet Offensive led to the destruction of the Vietcong as an organized military unit

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True

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Leader of the North Vietnamese

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Ho Chi Minh

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South Vietnamese communist guerrillas

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Vietcong

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Strategic bombing of North Vietnamese targets

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Leader of the My Lai Massacre

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Lt. William Calley

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President that ended American involvement in the conflict

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Richard M. Nixon

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Who said, “ If we lose Walter, we have lost the country.”

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LBJ

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In March ( ), the My Lai Massacre occurred

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1968

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The Vietnam War ended in April 1975 when North Vietnamese troops captured

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Saigon

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Pres. Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through

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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Was a corrupt and ruthless leader of South Vietnam overthrown in 1963

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The 1968 Tet Offensive

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Lead to the belief in the United States at the Vietnam War was unwinnable

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The invasion if Cambodia by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in the spring of 1979

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D the domestic antiwar movement in United States and led to large demonstrations

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President Nixon’s “Vietnamization” policy sought to

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Build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops

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