Vietnam War Era

Question 1

Domino Theory

Answer 1

idea where if one country falls to Communism, all will fall to Communism

Question 2

Dien Bien Phu

Answer 2

site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954

Question 3

Geneva Accords

Answer 3

temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam

Question 4

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 4

leader of Communist North Vietnam

Question 5

Vietminh

Answer 5

Communist nationalist group that had Vietnamese resistance to the Japanese

Question 6

Vietcong

Answer 6

NFL’s (National Liberation Front) guerrilla forces

Question 7

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 7

an anti-Communist Catholic who later became president of South Vietnam

Question 8

Robert McNamara

Answer 8

played an important role in shaping the US’s strategy in Vietnam and was discouraged by lack of success from America and created his own peace plan

Question 9

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 9

Congress granting Johnson to use all necessary measures to repel armed attacks against U.S. forces in Vietnam

Question 10

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 10

campaign of bombing attacks against North Vietnam designed to cripple the economy and force the Communists to the bargaining table

Question 11

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 11

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 12

Tet Offensive

Answer 12

when Viet Cong unleashed a massive, well-coordinated assault on major urban areas in South Vietnam

Question 13

Kent State

Answer 13

unarmed students demonstrating against United States involvement in the Vietnam War were fired on by panicky troops of the National Guard

Question 14

Henry Kissinger

Answer 14

devised secret plans for peace in Vietnam

won a noble peace prize for negotiating the cease fire agreement

Question 15

My Lai

Answer 15

American soldiers murdered 450 Vietnamese villagers in retaliation for casualties sustained in an earlier engagement

Question 16

Pentagon Papers

Answer 16

incident where the Pentagon papers were leaked to the public about how the Vietnam war was really going

Question 17

Invasion of Cambodia

Answer 17

part of Nixon’s plan to end the Vietnam War

Question 18

War Powers Act

Answer 18

required the president to report any use of military force within 48-hours and directed that without a declaration of war by Congress hostilities must cease within 60 days

Question 19

Vietnamization

Answer 19

the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam

Question 20

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 20

a proposed amendment to the US Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one’s sex