Vietnam War

Question 1

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 1

Failed attempt to overthrow Castro and communists in Cuba

Question 2

Kennedy New Frontier

Answer 2

Goals to improve Society to make things better

Question 3

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 3

Soviets were building missile launchers

Question 4

Domino Theory

Answer 4

If Vietnam fell to communism the rest of South east Asia would also fall

Question 5

Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 5

Gave Johnson money and soldiers to fight Vietnam war

Question 6

Napalm/ Agent

Orange

Answer 6

Used to clear vegetation jungle

Question 7

What made it difficult to achieve victory in Vietnam?

Answer 7

Terrain, motivation, television, hard to determine who the enemy was, supplies came in from ho chi min trail, Loss of public support

Question 8

Discuss Nixon’s

strategy in Vietnam

Answer 8

Vietnamization South Vietnamese would take over most of the fighting bomb supply trails

Question 9

Vietnamization

Answer 9

South Vietnamese would take over most of the fighting Americans would advise and support