Download Vietnam Zonk! Review Questions What are two ways the

Vietnam Zonk! Review Questions
What are two ways the Vietnamese organized against the French?
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Indochinese Communist Party
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Viet Minh
Was the Indochinese Communist Party a protest group or a fighting group?
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Protest
Was the Viet Minh a protest group or a fighting group?
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Fighting
What are two reasons why the United States got involved in the Vietnam War for Independence?
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Domino Theory
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French Allies
What are two world events that influenced US policy in Vietnam?
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Bay of Pigs
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Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
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Allowed the President to increase military power in Vietnam
What did the policy of escalation call for?
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Increasing military power in Vietnam
Which general continued to call for more and more American troops in Vietnam?
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William Westmoreland
What are two ways the US forces tried to defeat the Viet Cong?
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Agent Orange
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Napalm
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Search and Destroy missions
How did the Tet offensive change American attitudes toward the Vietnam War?
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Made people believe that the war would not be as easily concluded as the government was having them believe
What was the domino theory?
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Theory that if one country fell to communism, others would follow
With which war did the Americans want the French to assist them?
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The Cold War
Which event made Americans begin to doubt the US military’s claims that victory was near?
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The Tet Offensive
Who was William Westmoreland?
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General in charge of US troops in Vietnam
Which came first… The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the United States gave France money to aid in the conflict?
Which came first… The United States gave France money to aid in the conflict or the Tet Offensive?
Which came first… the Tet Offensive or the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Which came first… the Cuban Missile Crisis or the formation of the Viet Minh?