Vocab 1/4

Question 1

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 1

Communist leader of North Vietnam

Question 2

Domino Theory

Answer 2

an idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

Question 2

Vietminh

Answer 2

an organization of Vietnamese communists and other nationalists groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independence from the French

Question 3

Dien Bein Phu

Answer 3

site of major French military defeat in 1954 in Vietnam

Question 3

Geneva Accords

Answer 3

a 1954 peace agreement that divided vietnam into communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956

Question 3

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 3

leader of South Vietnam

Question 4

Vietcong

Answer 4

the south Vietnamese communists who fought against the government of south vietnam in the vietnam war

Question 5

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 5

a network of path used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in South Vietnam

Question 6

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Answer 6

a resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam

Question 7

Robert McNamara

Answer 7

US secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War

Question 7

Dean Rusk

Answer 7

US secretary of state during the Vietnam war

Question 7

Napalm

Answer 7

a gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts

Question 7

Agent Orange

Answer 7

a toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by the US planes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts

Question 7

William Westmoreland

Answer 7

American general who commanded American military operation

Question 7

Search-and-destroy mission

Answer 7

a US military raid on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants

Question 8

Credibility gap

Answer 8

a public distrust of statements made by the government

Question 8

Army of the Republic of Vietnam

Answer 8

the southern Vietnamese solders with whom the US troops fought against communism and forces in the North during the Vietnam War

Question 9

Draft

Answer 9

requirement enrollment in the armed services

Question 10

New Left

Answer 10

a youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s, embodied in such organizations as students for a democratic society and the free speech movement

Question 11

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 11

an antiestablishment New Left group, founded in 1960, that called for greater individual freedom and responsibility

Question 12

Free speech movement

Answer 12

an antiestablishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the university of California at Berkeley

Question 13

Dove

Answer 13

a person who opposed the Vietnam war and believed that the united states should withdraw from it

Question 13

Hawk

Answer 13

a person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the US should use increased military force to win it

Question 14

Tet offensive

Answer 14

a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on south Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968

Question 15

Clark Clifford

Answer 15

a Lyndon Johnson adviser who became his Secretary of defense

Question 16

Robert Kennedy

Answer 16

JFK's brother who was unable to complete his political race because he was assassinated

Question 17

Eugene McCarthy

Answer 17

the first antiwar advocate to challenge Johnson for Democratic Presidental nomination

Question 18

Hubert Humphrey

Answer 18

Johnson's vice president

Question 19

George Wallace

Answer 19

Alabama governor best known for his pro-segregation attitudes during the Civil Rights Movement

Question 20

Richard Nixon

Answer 20

vice president under Eisenhower and 37th president of the US

Question 21

Henry Kissinger

Answer 21

the main negotiator of the peace treaty with the north Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency

Question 22

Vietnamization

Answer 22

President Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of US troops and their replacement with south vietnamese forces

Question 23

Silent majority

Answer 23

name given by Nixon to the moderate mainstream Americans who quietly supported his vietnam war policies

Question 24

My Lai

Answer 24

a village in northern south Vietnam where mor than 200 unarmed civilians, including women and children were massacred by US troops in May 1986

Question 25

Kent State University

Answer 25

an ohio university where national guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the vietnam war on may 4, 1970. wounding 9, killing 4

Question 26

Pentagon Papers

Answer 26

a 7,000 oage document leaked to the press in 1971 by the former defense Department worker Daniel Ellsberg - revealing to the public that the us was not honest with its intentions in the vietnam war

Question 27

war powers act

Answer 27

a law enacted in 1973, limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting congress