Vietnam war Unit test:

Question 1

Leader of North Vietnam (wanted Vietnam to be independent - northern communist)

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

Leader of South Vietnam. A bad person, took rights and freedoms.

Answer 2

Diem

Question 3

President in 1961-1963 - assassinated in a parade, his military advisors trained the south Vietnam army

Answer 3

JFK

Question 4

President wanted peace with honor - wanted to end the war

Answer 4

Nixon

Question 5

He turned escalated and turned Vietnam into a full blown war.

Answer 5

Johnson (LBJ)

Question 6

He was presidents and invented the domino theory

Answer 6

Eisenhower

Question 7

poor people OR people who couldn’t afford college had to go to war

Answer 7

The draft

Question 8

What communist country did American go to war with?

Answer 8

North Vietnam

Question 9

What is agent orange?

Answer 9

toxic herbicide meant to destroy plants and where the enemy hid

Question 10

What is napalm?

Answer 10

a chemical used to burn trees and forest

Question 11

Supported the war & wanted to stop the spread of communism

Answer 11

Hawk

Question 12

Against the war war, questioned it on more strategic grounds –> major protest marchers were common

Answer 12

Dove

Question 13

Effects of the Vietnam war:

Answer 13

The draft, Gulf of Tonkin, Chemical warfare, My lai massacre

Question 14

if one country feel under the influence of communism, the other surrounding countries would follow

Answer 14

Domino Theory

Question 15

members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators

Answer 15

Kent state massacre

Question 16

What lowered the voting age to 18?

Answer 16

26th amendment

Question 17

Television coverage of the war told a different story from political & military leaders & highlighted a “credibility gap” between fact and fiction

Answer 17

Credibility gap

Question 18

authorized the president to do whatever was necessary to defend American troops from future attacks –> but stopped short of actually declaring war (the president shouldn’t have the right to do whatever they wanted)

Answer 18

Gulf of tonkin

Question 19

Capital of North Vietnam

Answer 19

Hanoi

Question 20

a city in vietnam

Answer 20

Dien Bien phu

Question 21

trails/paths used by north Vietnam to infiltrate troops and supplies into south vietnam

Answer 21

Ho Chi Minh trail

Question 22

reports emerged in 1969 that U.S. troops massacred innocent civilians in the village of my lai near the southern border of north vietnam

Answer 22

My lai massacre

Question 23

Johnson ordered the sustained bombing of North Vietnamese 7 Viet Cong troops targets in order to wear them down –> Johnson wanted to keep bombing them, until they were worn down.

Answer 23

operation rolling thunder

Question 24

city in vietnam

Answer 24

Saigon

Question 25

North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam

Answer 25

Tet offensive

Question 26

Officially titled “History of U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945–68,” the Pentagon Papers are a study of the origins and development of the Vietnam War

Answer 26

pentagon papers

Question 27

a Vietnamese communist

Answer 27

viet cong

Question 28

organization that led the struggle for Vietnamese independence from French rule

Answer 28

Vietminh

Question 29

was the war policy of the Nixon administration, introduced in late 1969. Nixon invades another country.

Answer 29

Vietnamization

Question 30

Limits the presidents power to send troops

Answer 30

war powers act

Question 31

France gives up control of Indochina. Vietnam temporarily divided at 17th parallel

Answer 31

Geneva conference

Question 32

containing communism (foreign policy spending - GUNS), vs. improving the lives of Americans living in poverty (domestic policy spending -BUTTER)

Answer 32

Guns and Butter