Vocabulary 12.5_6 Flashcards
Question: A law enacted in 1973 limiting the president’s right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress?
Answer: War Powers Act
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: Pentagon Papers
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: Kent State University
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: My Lai
Question: A name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate mainstream Americans who quietly supported his Vietnam War policies?
Answer: Silent majority
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: Vietnamization
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: Henry Kissinger
Question: 37th President of the US, elected in 1968, who announced a plan to remove American troops from Vietnam?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: American politician, four-time governor of Alabama, who championed segregation in the South in the 1960s?
Answer: George Wallace
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: Hubert Humphrey
Question: American politician, a US senator who vied for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination against President Johnson?
Answer: Eugene McCarthy
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: Robert Kennedy
Question: Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon B. Johnson who took over the position when Robert McNamara resigned?
Answer: Clark Clifford
Question: A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968?
Answer: Tet Offensive
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: Hawk
Question: A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the US should withdraw from it?
Answer: Dove
Question: An anti-establishment new left group founded in 1960, they called for greater individual freedom and responsibility?
Answer: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Question: An anti-establishment new left group founded in the 1960s that advocated for individual freedom and responsibility?
Answer: Free Speech Movement
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: New Left
Question: Required enrollment in the Armed Services?
Answer: Draft
Question: A public distrust of statements made by the government?
Answer: Credibility gap
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: Search and destroy mission
Question: A toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by US planes in Vietnam to expose Vietnamese or Vietcong hideouts?
Answer: Agent Orange
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: Napalm
Question: The southern Vietnamese soldiers with whom U.S. troops fought against communism and forces in the north during the Vietnam War?
Answer: Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
Question: American general in the US Army; he was the commander of US ground troops in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
Answer: William Westmoreland
Question: Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; he advised Johnson on US involvement in Vietnam?
Answer: Dean Rusk
Question: American businessman and public official; he was the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968?
Answer: Robert McNamara
Question: A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964 giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam?
Answer: Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Question: A network of paths used by North Vietnamese to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam?
Answer: Ho Chi Minh Trail
Question: The South Vietnamese communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War?
Answer: Vietcong
Question: Vietnamese political leader; he became president of South Vietnam in 1955 but was assassinated in 1963?
Answer: Ngo Dinh Diem
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: Geneva Accords
Question: Site of a battle between the French and the Vietnamese in 1954; the French lost the battle and control of Vietnam?
Answer: Dien Bien Phu
Question: The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control?
Answer: Domino Theory
Question: An organization of Vietnamese communists and other nationalist groups that, between 1946 and 1954, fought for Vietnamese independence from the French?
Answer: Vietminh
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: Ho Chi Minh
