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THE VIETNAM WAR
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THE VIETNAM WARSlide3
Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
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What is napalm?Slide4
Chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs – 200
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What is Agent Orange?Slide5
Improving relations with the Soviet Union and china to persuade them to cut back their aid to North Vietnam
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What is linkage?Slide6
The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to
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What is win independence from Japan?Slide7
A strategy that led troops to count bodies after battles – 500
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What were body counts to show that the US was winning the
war of attrition?Slide8
Soldier whose fate was undetermined
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What is MIA?Slide9
Forces made up of north and South Vietnamese, but supplied by North Vietnam – 200
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Who were the Vietcong?Slide10
Fear that a communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast Asian communist governments – 300
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What is the domino theory?Slide11
This was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprising attacks that were launched against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place– 400
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What is the
Tet
Offensive?
Double Jeopardy
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Vietcong's battle tactics and ways that American troops countered their tactics– 500
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What was battle tactics comprised a flexible mix of guerrilla and conventional warfare battle tactics from the Vietcong and it was countered by napalm, agent orange, and searching for ambushes
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Nixon’s Special assistant for nation security affairs– 100
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Who was Henry Kissinger?Slide14
Feared the Vietnam War would draw attention from the civil rights movement
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Who is Martin Luther King?Slide15
Democratic Candidate assassinated in a California Hotel– 300
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Who is Robert Kennedy?Slide16
Peace negotiator for the North Vietnamese – 400
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Who is Le
Duc Tho
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South Vietnams president at the end of the Vietnam War – 500
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Who is Nguyen Van
Thieu?Slide18
The place where in 1968 antiwar protesters and police clashed outside
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What is Democratic National Convention?Slide19
When the French left Vietnam, the U.S. stepped in to – 200
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What was it to be the principle protector of the new government?Slide20
The main reason that
President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam was his
fear of this – 300 Points
What is bringing China into the war?Slide21
The reason Kennedy felt the need to step up in Vietnam – 400
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What is the Republicans accusing the Democrats of losing China to communis
m?Slide22
Many government officials during the Johnson administration privately questioned the war while publicly defending it
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What were the Pentagon Papers?Slide23
A massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops – 100
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What was My Lai?Slide24
It temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17
th
parallel – 200 Points
What were the Geneva Accords?Slide25
The results of Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia – 300
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What is the repealing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?Slide26
The two events that led Truman to help France in Vietnam – 400
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What is the fall of China to communism and the outbreak of the Korean War?Slide27
He was the democratic candidate assassinated in a California hotel – 500
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Who was Robert Kennedy?