Vocabulary 12.5_6

Question 1

Question: A law enacted in 1973 limiting the president’s right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress?

Answer 1

Answer: War Powers Act

Question 2

Question: A 7000-page document leaked to the press in 1971 by the former Defense Department worker Daniel Ellsberg revealing that the US government had not been honest about its intentions for the war?

Answer 2

Answer: Pentagon Papers

Question 3

Question: In which Ohio university did National Guardsmen open fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4th, 1970, wounding 9 and killing four?

Answer 3

Answer: Kent State University

Question 4

Question: A village in northern South Vietnam where more than 2000 unarmed civilians including women and children were massacred by U.S. troops in May 1968?

Answer 4

Answer: My Lai

Question 5

Question: A name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate mainstream Americans who quietly supported his Vietnam War policies?

Answer 5

Answer: Silent majority

Question 6

Question: President Nixon’s strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacements with South Vietnamese forces?

Answer 6

Answer: Vietnamization

Question 7

Question: German-born political scientist who was an important foreign policy adviser during the 1960s and 1970s and helped develop the plan to end the war in Vietnam?

Answer 7

Answer: Henry Kissinger

Question 8

Question: 37th President of the US, elected in 1968, who announced a plan to remove American troops from Vietnam?

Answer 8

Answer: Richard Nixon

Question 9

Question: American politician, four-time governor of Alabama, who championed segregation in the South in the 1960s?

Answer 9

Answer: George Wallace

Question 10

Question: American politician who was Vice President under President Johnson and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1968 after Johnson decided not to seek reelection?

Answer 10

Answer: Hubert Humphrey

Question 11

Question: American politician, a US senator who vied for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination against President Johnson?

Answer 11

Answer: Eugene McCarthy

Question 12

Question: American politician who was Attorney General during his brother John F. Kennedy’s presidency and was assassinated during his bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential election?

Answer 12

Answer: Robert Kennedy

Question 13

Question: Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon B. Johnson who took over the position when Robert McNamara resigned?

Answer 13

Answer: Clark Clifford

Question 14

Question: A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968?

Answer 14

Answer: Tet Offensive

Question 15

Question: A person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the US should use increased military force to win it?

Answer 15

Answer: Hawk

Question 16

Question: A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the US should withdraw from it?

Answer 16

Answer: Dove

Question 17

Question: An anti-establishment new left group founded in 1960, they called for greater individual freedom and responsibility?

Answer 17

Answer: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Question 18

Question: An anti-establishment new left group founded in the 1960s that advocated for individual freedom and responsibility?

Answer 18

Answer: Free Speech Movement

Question 19

Question: A youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s embodied in such organizations as Students for a Democratic Society and the Free Speech Movement?

Answer 19

Answer: New Left

Question 20

Question: Required enrollment in the Armed Services?

Answer 20

Answer: Draft

Question 21

Question: A public distrust of statements made by the government?

Answer 21

Answer: Credibility gap

Question 22

Question: A U.S. military raid on a South Vietnamese village intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulting in the destruction of the village and displacement of its inhabitants?

Answer 22

Answer: Search and destroy mission

Question 23

Question: A toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by US planes in Vietnam to expose Vietnamese or Vietcong hideouts?

Answer 23

Answer: Agent Orange

Question 24

Question: A gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts?

Answer 24

Answer: Napalm

Question 25

Question: The southern Vietnamese soldiers with whom U.S. troops fought against communism and forces in the north during the Vietnam War?

Answer 25

Answer: Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Question 26

Question: American general in the US Army; he was the commander of US ground troops in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Answer 26

Answer: William Westmoreland

Question 27

Question: Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; he advised Johnson on US involvement in Vietnam?

Answer 27

Answer: Dean Rusk

Question 28

Question: American businessman and public official; he was the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968?

Answer 28

Answer: Robert McNamara

Question 29

Question: A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964 giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam?

Answer 29

Answer: Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 30

Question: A network of paths used by North Vietnamese to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam?

Answer 30

Answer: Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 31

Question: The South Vietnamese communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War?

Answer 31

Answer: Vietcong

Question 32

Question: Vietnamese political leader; he became president of South Vietnam in 1955 but was assassinated in 1963?

Answer 32

Answer: Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 33

Question: A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1958?

Answer 33

Answer: Geneva Accords

Question 34

Question: Site of a battle between the French and the Vietnamese in 1954; the French lost the battle and control of Vietnam?

Answer 34

Answer: Dien Bien Phu

Question 35

Question: The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control?

Answer 35

Answer: Domino Theory

Question 36

Question: An organization of Vietnamese communists and other nationalist groups that, between 1946 and 1954, fought for Vietnamese independence from the French?

Answer 36

Answer: Vietminh

Question 37

Question: Vietnamese revolutionary leader and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969; he wanted to bring communism to South Vietnam?

Answer 37

Answer: Ho Chi Minh