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USH Ch 16 Vietnam War (Lakers)

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SEATO
Worked to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
President Johnson gained extraordinary war powers under the...
Dien Bien Phu
The Vietminh laid siege to... , trapping a large French garrison
Vietcong
National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters, called... ,launched an insurgency against the Diem gov't of South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Demanded independence from France and embraced communism
Domino Theory
The... was the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its closest neighbors would follow
President Truman agreed to help France because he
Feared the spread of communism
The Geneva Accords provided for
The division of Vietnam into 2 countries
What happened during the Vietnamese election of 1956?
Ngo Dinh Diem refused to participate
President Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam by
Ordering air strikes
Napalm
Is a jellied gasoline that American pilots dropped on Vietnam
Doves
Dissagreed with President Johnson's war policy
William Westmoreland
The commander in South Vietnam
Hawks
Supported President Nohnson's war policy
To convince North Vietnam to stop reinforcing the Vietcong, President Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder, which
Began a sustained bombing campaign
American soldiers used Agent Orange to
Disrupt the the enemy's food supply
Ho Chi Minh comparid his military to a
Tiger
Which of the following best discribes the Vietcong's war strategy?
Fight small shirmishes
By the end of 1965, most American soldiers in Vietnam
Had been drafted
Why did President Johnson have to cut back his great society initiatives?
The cost of the war was rising
SDS
A group formed to campaign against poverty and racism that spoke out against the war
Eugene McCarthy
An anti war senator from Minnesota whi ran for president
Credibility Gap
The difference between what the administration said and what journalist reported
Tet Offensive
A comminist assalt on provincial capitals, major cities, and US embacy
Draftee
A soldier who did not volunteer to serve
Robert Kennedy
Democratic senator from New York who ran for the presidency
During the Vietnam war, African American soldiers were
More likely than others to serve in combat positions
To eliminate deferment abuses, the Selective Service System
Adopted a lottery
In March 1968, what surprising announcement did President Johnson make to the American people?
He would not run for annother term as President
Who wont the 1968 Presidential election?
Richard Nixon
Pentagon Papers
In 1971, the... Were leaked to the New York Times
Vietnamization
President Nixon hoped to withdraw US forces through...
Paris Peace Accords
Called for a cease-fire and US troop withdrawl
War Powers Act
In 1973, Congress passed the ... to stop the growth of the imperial presidency
Kent State U
Four people were killed during protest at...
My Lai
The massacre at... resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese
President Nixon ordered the secret bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia to
Reduce the flow of communist supplies
In 1970, President Nixon tried to break the stalemate in the peace process by
Ordering a ground attack on Vietcong bases in Cambodia
What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?
US leaders misled Congress and the American people about the war
Ultimately, the end of the Vietnam war resulted in
Communist control of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Nixon's leading national security advisor was
Détente
Was a policy aimed at easing Cold War Tensions
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
The... froze the deployment of certain missiles
Zhou Enlai
Premier... worked to have President Nixon visit China
Realpolitik
Nixon promoted... , the idea that concrete national interest should define political goals
President Nixon considered his approach to foreign policy to be
Pragmatic
President Nixon believed that normalizing relations with China would
Drive a wedge between China and the Soviet Union
China demonstrated its willingness to open talks with the US by
Hosting a table tennis match
How did USSR respond to the normalization of relations between China and the US
Brezhnev invited Nixon to visit Moscow
SALT I
Reduced tensions between the US and USSR
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