Korean and Vietnam War

Question 1

After increasingly escalating the number of US forces in S Vietnam, Johnson slowly realized he was fighting a war against Vietnamese nationalism that he could not win. In 1968, Johnson withdrew from the presidental election and called for peace talks to end the Vietnam war

Answer 1

Vietnam 1965-69 (Johnson administration)

Question 2

Vietcong and N Vietnamese attack throughout S Vietnam that caused public opinion in the US to turn against the war

Answer 2

Tet Offensive 1968

Question 3

S Vietnam fell to communist control

Answer 3

Fall of South Vietnam 1975

Question 4

Law that prevents the president from involving the US in war without congressional authorizaion

Answer 4

War Powers Act 1973

Question 5

Senator who opposed the Vietnam war and was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president in 1968

Answer 5

Robert Kennedy

Question 6

Senator who opposed the Vietnam War and made an unsuccessful attempt to win the Democratic nomination for presidnet in 1968

Answer 6

Eugene McCarthy

Question 7

Vietnamese Communist rebels in S Vietnam

Answer 7

Vietcong

Question 8

Belief that a nation fell under communism control, nearby nations would fall would fall under communist power. It led to the US sending military forces to aid S Vietnam

Answer 8

Domino Theory

Question 9

The US withdrew combat troops

Answer 9

US withdrawl from South Vietnam 1973

Question 10

After the French Colonists were forced out of Vietnam in 1954, Vietnam was divided into two nations, north and south. When elections to unify the divided nations were canceled in 1956, the US sent aid and advisors to S Vietnam

Answer 10

Vietnam War 1954-1961 (Esinhower administration)

Question 11

President Nixon’s policy of gradually removing US troops from Vietnam

Answer 11

Vietnamization 1969-73

Question 12

Although president Nixon increadsed the bombing of Vietnam and launhed invasions of Laos and Cambodia, he lso decided to withdraw troops from Vietnam

Answer 12

Vietnam War 1969-73 (Nixon Adminastration)

Question 13

Classified govt documents on the Vietnam War leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg and leaked to the New York Times. Efforts to block publication was rejected by the US Supreme Court

Answer 13

Pentagon Papers 1971

Question 14

After President Johnson declared North Vietnamese forces attacked US boats in foreign waters, the US Congress voted to give the president a blank check to do whatever was neccesary in order to stop the spread of Communism in S Vietnam

Answer 14

Tonkin Gulf Resoluntion 1964

Question 15

War started by N Korean forces crossing the 38th Parallek and invading S Korea. United Nations forces, strenghtened primarily by the US, launched a police action agaisnt N Korea to stop agressive actions

Answer 15

Korean War 1950-53

Question 16

University in Ohio where students were shot and killed by National Guard Troops during a protest against the Vietnam War

Answer 16

Kent State 1970

Question 17

In an effort to help S Vietnam, the US increased the amount of advisors in S VIetnam and sent special forces to fight in S Vietnamr

Answer 17

Vietnam (Kennedy Administration) 1961-63

Question 18

Left wing student organization founded to attack american materialism and work for social justice and civil rights. Associated with the anti war movement of the late 1960s.

Answer 18

Students for a Democratic Society 1960

Question 19

Village in S Vietnam where US troops massacred 350-500 innocent women and children. Increased public opposition to the war when it became public in 1969

Answer 19

My Lai 1988