History Test #1, Vietnam War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 French Indochina | Vietnam's Original Name after WWI |
| France | Vietnam was a colony of this country |
| Ho Chi Minh | Guerilla Leader of the Vietnamese Communist during WWII |
| Dien Bien Phu | In 1954, the communists beat the French at this battle, forcing them to abandon their colony. |
| Hanoi | The Capital of North Vietnam |
| Silent majority | Nixon appealed to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. |
| Saigon | The Capital of South Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | The South Vietnamese leader who supported the USA. |
| Vietcong | The commies in South Vietnam who wanted to re-unite with North Vietnam. |
| Domino Theory | This Theory said that if you let one country be communist, then others will follow! Basis for intervention |
| Green Berets | Kennedy sent "advisors" who were This level of military--several thousand, who actually did some fighting from 1960-63. |
| 16,000 | How many troops were in Vietnam while JFK died? |
| Barry Goldwater | Who was LBJ up against in 1964? (hint: he was very tough on communism) |
| Robert McNamara | Secretary of defense under JFK and LBJ (that rhymes btw) |
| USS Maddox | This ship was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin (not really, it was later found maybe one bullet shot it) |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | This resolution let us invade vietnam to as many troops as we want. |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | This operation let Ariel bombing in N. Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh trail | A trail that led through neutral countries the USA could not indeed enter! |
| Cambodia and Laos | What countries did the trail enter? (alphabetical) |
| 180,000 | This was the number of troops left in Vietnam in 1965. |
| Napalm | Sticky gel that burnt trees. Used to clear the forest so helicopters could see troops. |
| Agent Orange | One chemical "defoliant" was This. later studies showed that exposure to it led to cancer. This is one more example of bad unintended consequences in Vietnam. |
| William Westmoreland | The US commanding general in Vietnam. Later was named person of the year in 1965. |
| counterculture | A bunch of people in rebellion of what the 1950's stood for. |
| blue-collar | This group wasn't very active in counterculture. |
| draft | Beings forced to join the armed forces. |
| deferment | One of the biggest problems was that you could get THIS for college, so middle-class kids could avoid the draft, while the poor (and minorities) disproportionately could not. |
| hawks | People that supported the Vietnam War. |
| Doves | people that were against the vietnam war. |
| The Tet Offensive | On Jan 30, 1968, the Vietnamese new yea North Vietnam launched this MAJOR attack. |
| Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy | These two democrats seeked their parties nomination during the 1968 elections. (hint: alphabetical by first name) |
| Martin Luther King | This Civil Rights movement leader was killed in 1968. |
| James Earl Ray | The Man who shot MLK. |
| Robert Kennedy | This famous american was assasinated in 1968, along with MLK. |
| Sirhan Sirhan | The palestinian terrorist who shot RFK. |
| Chicago | The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held here. |
| Hubert Humphrey | The frontrunner going into the 1968 Democratic National Convention. |
| Richard Daley | The Mayor of Chicago in 1968 |
| The Whole World Is Watching! | Protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention violently screamed this while eating sugar. |
| George Wallace | A man that appealed to hawks and racists. |
| Richard Nixon | The Republican candidate in 1968. |
| pull out | Part 1 of Nixon's Plan: Gradually add more/pull out troops from vietnam. |
| draft | Part 2 of Nixon's Plan: Reform the _____. |
| Bombing | Part 3 of Nixon's Plan: Increase _____ in Vietnam. |
| draft lottery | Nixon decided to do this to make the draft better. |
| Vietnamization | This meant that Nixon was going to start pulling out US troops and replacing them with a growing South Vietnamese army. |
| Bombed and Invaded Them | Nixon did what to Laos and Cambodia? |
| Kent State | Four Students were killed at this college. |
| Pentagon Papers | These classified documents were leaked. |
| plumbers | Nixon created this group to stop THE LEAKS OF THE PENTAGON PAPERS :-O |
| George mcGovern | Democratic Candidate in 1972 |
| Paris accords | these accords said that the USA was out of South Vietnam, while a few thousand NVA troops were allowed to stay. |
| Case-Church Amendment | This prohibited fighting in SE Asia |
| 150 billion | Amount of Money the Vietnam War Cost |
| 58,000+ | The Amount of DEAD Americans. |
| 1.4 million | The Amount of DEAD Vietamese. |
| Maya Lin | This man designed the Vietnam Memorial. |
| Vietnam Memorial | A Wall with the names of Everyone who died in Vietnam. |
| Khmer Rouge | In Cambodia, this communist engaged in a mass slaughter of non-communist known as the "killing fields." |
| re-education camps | In South Vietnam, the communists took over and forced many thousands of anti-communists into this. |
| The Geneva Accords | This divided Vietnam into a north and a south. |
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