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1
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Who is the leader of North Vietnam?

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Ho Chi Minh

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Who is the leader of South Vietnam? He was a Roman Catholic; pro-capitalist

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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3
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Who’s government did U.S. aid?

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Diem’s

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What was Kennedy’s war about?

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JFK increases military involvement with advisers.

He ordered assasination of Diem via coup d’ etat

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When Lyndon B. Johnston took presidency what did he focus on?

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Maintaining communism

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What was the tankin gulf incident?

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Ship, carrying guns/ammunition to help self vietnam

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7
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What was the controversy about the vietnam war?

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Drafting

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Why was the vietnam war a ground war?

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There were no territorial goals

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9
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Why was the Vietnam war called the first “livingroom war”

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the horrors of war were documented on tv.

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10
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What is the dmz

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Demilitarized zone

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11
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What was South Vietnam

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Democracy

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12
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What ws the Air war about?

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Operation rolling thunder

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What was operation rolling thunder?

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bombing of Hanoi: target: Ho Chi Minh Trail

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14
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What does POW stand for

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Prisoners of War

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15
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What is carpet bombing?

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Napalm

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16
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Viet Cong:

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Farmers by day, guerillas by night

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17
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Who implemented Search and Destroy policy?

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General William Westmoreland

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18
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How is success measured?

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Body Count

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19
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What is the Tet offense

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N Vietnamese and Viet Cong attack south simultaneously

—- seen as amaerican defeat—-
Hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today?
Popularity of LBJ goes down

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20
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200-500 unarmed villagers murdered

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My Lai Massacre

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21
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What were the anti war demonstrations

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Columbia Unversity: students destroy research

Kent State University: Kprotest kids through rocks, 4 kids shot on way to class

22
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Why are we in Vietnam?

A

Containment

23
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Conscientious objector

A

-

24
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a person who avoids the draft policies of his/her nation by leaving the country, going into hiding, or other attempts at fradulent means

A

draft dodger

25
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Senetors buying their way out

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A rich mans war and a poor mans fight

26
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Amnesty and Ramifications

A

Cultural reconciliation

27
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Refusing to submit-

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criminal offense

28
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What was Nixon’s campaign promise?

A

Peace and Honor

29
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What is the handing over of the Vietnam war to south vietnam?

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Vietnamization

30
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What is Agent Orange

A

herbicidal warfare, spray caused 400,000 deaths and 500,000 birth defects

31
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What were the pentagon papers about

A

American public being lied to government documents leaking Johnstons admin. war efforts
documents- gov misled American people on its intentions in vietnam

32
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What was the ceasefire and the conditions

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between south vietnam and north vietnam
conditions: US removal of troops, norht vietnam could leave troops in south vietnam, n vietnam resume war, no provisions for pow or mia

33
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Fallof Saigon

A

America abandons vietnam

34
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What were the costs of the vietnam war

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US morale, confidence in government, trust decimated

—-we tied/ lost—

US spends 150 billion

3 million vietnamese killed

35
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impact of vietnam war

A

26th amendment: voting age changes to 18
Nixon abolished draft
War Powers Act: Pres must notify congress 48 hours before deploy, pres must withdraw forces if congress approves in less than 90 days

36
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How does Nixon win the elction in 1968

A

Electoral college, runs through peace and honor

37
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The hardworking Americans who paid taxes, desired a restoration of law and order

A

silent Majority

38
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Who does Nixon not like

A

hippies and young people voting

39
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What did the Oentagon Papers do?

A

Exposed Vietnam War

The newspapers win

40
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Who were the White House plumbers?

A

Stopped leaks they tried to make Daniel Ellsburg a crazy person

41
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What is Watergate

A

He name of the hotel that the burgalars went into

42
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Who uncovered the Watergate scandal and who did they work for?

A

Bob Woodard and Carl bernstien

Worked for Washington Post

43
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What is the committee to re-elect the president. A spy fund to fund the plumbers

A

The Creep

44
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What is all the recorded audio from Nixon’s office?

A

The smoking gun tapes

45
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What was the saturday night massacre

A

on saturday anyone that could watergate took place was fired

46
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What was Nixon the first to do?

A

Resign

47
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What was the lasting impact of the watergate scandal

A

American distrust in politics

48
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What was Nixons final message

A

“I am not a crook”

49
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motivations for Draft Dodgers

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Avoid combat danger
political objections to war
moral objections to warfare
objections to certain wars
memebr of diff country
50
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get out of War

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Religion
Health reasons
marrying or fathering a child
studnet deferment
enlisting in national guard
non-pacifist churches missionaries

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