Lyndon Johnson Flashcards
(48 cards)
What year had the first two American military deaths in Vietnam?
1959
In what year did Vietnamese monks set themselves on fire to protest the South Vietnamese Government?
1963
In what year did the gulf of Tonkin incident occur?
1964
In what year was the first American POW taken by N. Vietnam?
1964
In what year did Operation Rolling Thunder begin? How long did it continue? What did it entail.
1965-1968, the sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
In what year were the first student demonstrations against Vietnam.
1965
When is agent orange a defoliant used in vietnam?
1966
In what year were the siege of Khe Sahn and the Tet offensive?
1968
What was the objective of the Tet offensive and what was the result for the Vietnamese and the Americans?
Objective: to cause a general uprising in the south.
Result: no uprising, but it weakened American popular support for the war.
In what year did Robert McNamara resign?
1968
Who was Robert McNamara?
He was Johnson’s defense secretary
Who was Eugene McCarthy?
A senator who nearly defeated Johnson in the NH democratic primary
What was the year of the My Lai massacre?
1968
What was the maximum number of troops that Americans had in Vietnam?
540,000
In what year was Robert Kennedy assassinated?
1968
In what year was the Moratorium and what was its agenda?
1969, To expand the peace movement off the college campuses and into the cities.
In what year did national guardsmen kill four student at Kent State?
1970
In what year were “the Pentagon Papers” released?
1971
In what year did the draft end?
1973
In what year did the formal cease fire agreement come into effect?
1973
In what year did the war resume?
1974
In what year did the North Vietnamese overrun south Vietnam and Cambodia?
1975
In what year did Jimmy Carter pardon draft evaders?
1977
Why did Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violent protest not resonate with many blacks by 1965?
They, while being non-violent were encountering more and more violence toward themselves.
