| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Who are the Vietcong? | Communists fighting against the South Vietnamese government |
| Who were the "Hawks"? | Those who support war |
| Who were the "doves"? | Those who support peace. |
| What was the Tet offensive? | Surprise attacks on cities in South Vietnam on the Asian New Years Day |
| what is Vietnamization? | Policy of equipping and training of the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves. |
| 1. Why did Hubert Humphrey run for the 1968 election? | Because LBJ was not running. |
| 2. Kennedy was killed after winning what primary? | California Primary |
| 3. After what invasion did the Kent State protest start? | Cambodia Invasion |
| What is the Madman theory? | If we shoot, they'll shoot back. |
| 5. If one country fell to communism then surrounding countries would | Domino Theory |
| What happened after we backed out of Vietnam? | north Vietnam took over the south. |
| How did the Vietnam war start? | communist north Vietnam tried to take south Vietnam |
| Why did the US become involved in Vietnam? | To stop the spread of Communism |
| When did the Vietnam war end? | it ended in 1973 |
| What President withdrew from Vietnam? | Nixon |
| Who was Ho Chi Minh? | The Leader of North Vietnam |
| What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail? | the trail the the North Vietamese used to send supplies to South Vietnam |
| What was the ARVN? | Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
| What was the Domino Theory? | Countries on the brink of communism are waiting to fall one after another |
| Who was Hubert Humphrey? | LBJ's vice president |
| What is containment? | The use of force and other tactics to keep something in a country |
| What is Pacification? | The act of the United States taking innocent vietnamese out of war areas |
| What country did both the United States and Vietnam fight against for Vietnam's independence? | France |
| Anti-War leader Martin Luther King Jr. and what other anti-war person was assassinated before The Election of 1968? | Robert Kennedy |
| What state was the Kent State University protest in? | Ohio |
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