Vietnam War

Question 1

Guerilla Warfare

Answer 1

Fighting by small groups using tactics such as the ambush

Question 2

Flexible response

Answer 2

President Kennedy’s plan to help nations fighting Communist movements by providing special military units trained to fight guerilla warfare

Question 3

Blockade

Answer 3

To block or obstruct

Question 4

Regime

Answer 4

A form of government, government in power, or period of time

Question 5

Search and destroy mission

Answer 5

Mission by American forces to seek out and destroy North Vietnamese forces

Question 6

Napalm

Answer 6

An intensively burning explosive used to destroy jungle growth

Question 7

Agent Orange

Answer 7

A chemical herbicide used to clear out forests and tall grasses

Question 8

Counterculture

Answer 8

A culture with values that differ from those of established society

Question 9

Deferment

Answer 9

Postponement of, or excuse from, military service

Question 10

Conscientious Objector

Answer 10

A person who refuses to serve in the armed forces or bear arms on moral or religious grounds

Question 11

Credibility gap

Answer 11

The difference between what is said and what people know or believe to be true

Question 12

Vietnamization

Answer 12

President Nixon’s plan calling for the South Vietnamese to take a more active role in fighting and for Americans to become less involved

Question 13

Martial Law

Answer 13

Emergency military rule

Question 14

MIA

Answer 14

American soldier classified as missing during a war or other military action

Question 15

domino theory

Answer 15

Eisenhower predicted that if Communists took over Vietnam, they would soon take over the other countries of Indochina, they would fall like dominoes

Question 16

Dien Bien Phu

Answer 16

location of battle between France and Indochina

Question 17

Green Berets

Answer 17

special military unit

Question 18

Richard Nixon

Answer 18

37th president of the US

Question 19

John Kennedy

Answer 19

35th president of the US

Question 20

Pentagon Papers

Answer 20

Papers given to the NY Times that showed the Johnson Administration had not been honest about the Vietnam War

Question 21

Alliance for Progress

Answer 21

started by JFK to help the economies in Latin American countries

Question 22

Geneva Accords

Answer 22

Peace agreement between US, China, Britain, Soviet Union, and Vietnam, 1954, divided Vietnam into North and South- North- Communist- Ho Chi Minh/ South- supported by US- Ngo Dinh Diem,
signed in Geneva, Switzerland

Question 23

Explain why the United States and the Soviet Union almost go to war with each other in 1962

Answer 23

Over the possibility of nuclear weapons in Cuba, Cuba Missile Crisis

Question 24

Explain who was responsible for the military build up in Vietnam

Answer 24

Johnson

Question 25

Explain what made the war in Vietnam difficult for American troops to fight

Answer 25

wet muddy fields and jungles where the enemy could hide

Question 26

Identify what hawks and doves were in regards to the war in Vietnam

Answer 26

Hawks supported Vietnam War, doves opposed it

Question 27

Identify where communism spread to during the war in Vietnam

Answer 27

Laos and Cambodia

Question 28

Identify who led a communist revolution in Cuba

Answer 28

Fidel Castro

Question 29

Explain how the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam and the leaders of each area

Answer 29

divided Vietnam into North and South- North- Communist- Ho Chi Minh/ South- supported by US- Ngo Dinh Diem,

Question 30

Identify who the person to orbit the Earth was

Answer 30

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

Question 31

Explain why Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Answer 31

Because of anti-war sentiment and lack of congressional oversight

Question 32

Explain the biggest problem of Pres. Johnson’s presidency

Answer 32

Vietnam War

Question 33

Identify who Nixon’s National Security advisor was

Answer 33

Henry Kissinger

Question 34

Explain how Kennedy tried to change Cuba's government in the 1960s

Answer 34

He worked with the CIA to get rid of Fidel Castro, it was not a success

Question 35

Identify the program that Kennedy created to provide guidance to underdeveloped third world countries

Answer 35

Peace Corps

Question 36

Explain why the Soviets and the East German government built the Berlin Wall

Answer 36

East Germany was communist, people tried to flea East Germany to west Germany so they built a wall so they couldn't leave

Question 37

Identify the two opposing governments during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 37

Cuba-Soviet Union- Communist- Castro US- Democracy- Kennedy

Question 38

Explain how Pres. Kennedy responded during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 38

Kennedy made a blockade and would destroy any Soviet ship that goes through the blockade Blockade ended when Soviets removed their missiles

Question 39

Explain what the Gulf of Tonkin resolution did for Pres. Johnson

Question 40

Identify the US operation to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 40

To cut off supplies into South Vietnam