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Hawks were war mongers and supported an all _______ __ ____________
Doves believed in ending the war quickly and getting out of Vietnam.
Students at college campuses started _________ the dress _________ and mandatory
______ programs on the college campuses.
President Johnson _______- the _________ policy in place despite the many protests on
college campuses.
Define the following dates
1975
April 30, 1975
January 27, 1973
1972
The SDS __________ the Selective Service System.
There is a ___________ to the fallen soldiers in the ___________ War.
The returning Vietnam Veterans received _____ ___________ welcome when returning
the U.S.
The War Powers Act replaced the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and stated U.S.________
must __________ after 60 days if ___________ refuses funding.
Cambodia fell to a communist regime the _______ ________ and the leader, ________,
________ eliminated over one million _____________ to rid the country of _________
influence.
Define the following
Phil Ochs
Doves
Hawks
SDS
Tom Hayden
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There were four reasons students protested the war in Vietnam they were:
President Johnson was caught in the middle of both sides of the Vietnam War because:
Robert McNamara resigned in 1967 as Secretary of Defense because:
The Vietnamese New Year was significant because:
The Presidential election of 1968 was between:
President Johnson decided not to run or seek the nomination in 1968 was due to:
Robert F Kennedy did not receive the nomination for the Democratic nomination
because:
The invasion of Cambodia set off protests at colleges and universities. The two most
famous were:
Identify the total casualties at both universities
On January 27, 1973, the final __________ _________ was signed.
Define the following
Richard M Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George C Wallace
Richard Daley
Eugene McCarthy
In 1968 Richard Nixon won the Nomination for President from the __________
_________________.
President Nixon plan to end the war was ________________
President Nixon goal to end the war in Vietnam was “________ _____ _____________”
As peace talks were going on between the North Vietnamese and the United States to end
the war in Vietnam the United States __________ ____ ______________ of the North.
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The massacre at My Lai was:
There was only one individual charged and convicted in the My Lai Massacre, He was:
President Nixon ordered the invasion of ________________ to wipe out North
Vietnamese supply routes.
Identify the country which controlled Southeast Asia from 1800 to 1940
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos made up
The United States entered Vietnam military in 1950 by providing
In 1940, _______ took control of Vietnam
The leader of the opposition who fled to China to regroup was
The final battle that defeated the French in Vietnam was
There were three Cold War policies adapted by the United States, they were
Containment, Brinkmanship and _____________ ________________.
The United States supported the ________ of the National Elections in Vietnam.
The opposition to the leadership in South Vietnam became known as:
The first military aid sent to Vietnam by Kennedy was:
Buddhist _________ _________ to themselves in public to protest the Ho Chi Minh rule
in South Vietnam.
The new leader of South Vietnam was ____ ______ _______
Diem was a devout ___________
Two events in November in 1963 altered the war in Vietnam; they were the assassination
of Diem and the assassination of the President of the United States, ______ _
____________.
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Define the following
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Lyndon Johnson
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem Bien Phu
Saigon
Define the following Matching
Hanoi
Advisors
Gulf of Tonkin
Operation Rolling Thunder
Identify the treaty that ended the French involvement in Vietnam
The terms of the treaty that ended the French involvement in Vietnam were: Vietnam to
be divided at the 17th parallel and
Democrats and especially Kennedy were perceived as being _____ on Communism.
The incident at the Gulf of Tonkin gave Johnson the power to:
By 1965 the troop strength of United States soldiers had reached
Describe the military tactics of the Vietcong
a. hit and run
b. use of a tunnel system
c. mines and booby traps
d. none of the above
e. all of the above
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The feelings about escalating the war in Johnson’s cabinet Vietnam was:
The Vietcong tunnel system included:
Ho Chi Minh believed that the ________ _________________ could outlast the
_____________ States once the American public became outrage about the number of
casualties to United States soldiers and no apparent ___________ being made in the war
in Vietnam.
Robert McNamara stayed on as Secretary of Defense under President Johnson.
Practical Politics was described in the Nixon Administration as:
Détente is defined in the 1970’s as:
Describe the resource that OPEC deals with.
Nixon was able to negotiate with the Communist Chinese because of his _______
__________ stance on Communism during his political career.
The terms of the first SALT treaty were
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