Vietnam War vocab

Question 1

Vietcong

Answer 1

a new guerrilla army organized by Ho Chi Minh and his followers

Question 2

Three mile Island

Answer 2

a nuclear facility outside Harrisburg Pennsylvania

Question 3

Rachel Carson

Answer 3

a soft-spoken marine biologist

Question 4

William Westmoreland

Answer 4

American commander in South Vietnam

Question 5

Cesar Chavez

Answer 5

organized 2 groups that fought for farmworkers

Question 6

Henry Kissinger

Answer 6

Harvard professor that Nixon appointed as special assistance for national security affairs

Question 7

Counterculture

Answer 7

a new group of people who promoted the forties of flamboyant dress, rock music, drug use, and free and independent living (hippies)

Question 8

Congressional Black Caucus

Answer 8

more clearly organized and represented the concerns of African Americans

Question 9

Affirmative Action

Answer 9

companies and institutions doing business with the federal government to actively recruit African American employees to hope this would lead to improved social and economic status

Question 10

Vietnamization

Answer 10

a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by Transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam