Vietnam vocab

Question 1

Who was the founder of the communist party in Vietnam - also the president of North Vietnam?

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

Who were the group of Vietnamese communists that fought the French?

Answer 2

Vietminh

Question 3

Who was the anti-communist leader of South Vietnam?

Answer 3

Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 4

Coordinated series of attacks launder by N. Vietnam to S. Vietnam during Vietnamese New Year?

Answer 4

Tet Offensive

Question 5

Meeting held in 1954 to divide Vietnam

Answer 5

Geneva Conference

Question 6

Foreign policy that if one country fell to communism, other neighboring countries would too

Answer 6

Domino Theory

Question 7

Gasoline based, jelly like substance that burned, used on the jungles of vietnam

Answer 7

Napalm

Question 8

Leaf killing herbicide

Answer 8

Agent Orange

Question 9

Ambushes, hit and run attacks, sabotage, etc

Answer 9

Guerilla Warfare

Question 10

Distrust between civilians and gov

Answer 10

Credibility gap

Question 11

Vietcong, N. Vietnam fighting in S. Vietnam against them and the USA

Answer 11

National Liberation Front

Question 12

LBJ to take any means necessary against N. Vietnam

Answer 12

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 13

Bombing campaign against N. Vietnam established by LBJ

Answer 13

Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 14

Policies announced by LBJ

Answer 14

War on Poverty

Question 15

Anti-war senator from Minnesota

Answer 15

McCarthy

Question 16

VP, President, invented Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 16

LBJ

Question 17

NY state senator, got shot

Answer 17

Bobby Kennedy