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Hubert Humphrey
Johnsons VP, who gets the Democratic nomination but loses
Nikita Khruchev
Leader of the Soviet Union, we thought things would get better..wrong
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of the communists in Vietnam
Hawks
Members of Congress who supported the war are referred to as?
Guerrilla Fighting
Name given to the style of fighting used by the North
William Westmoreland
American General in charge of forces in Vietnam
Soldiers started to question why we were fighting
At first our army was volunteers, but as the war progressed it became a drafted army, how did this impact our fighting?
War Powers Act
Congress passes this to try to regain the power that it gave away with the Tonkin Gulf resolution
Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg released these showing that the Government has been covering up about the war
Sirhan Sirhan
He is the person who assassinated RFK
Fidel Castro
He was the leader who turned Cuba into a communist country
Eugene McCarthy
He was the leading anti-war democrat
Robert Kennedy
He won the Democratic primary, but is killed that night
Medal of Honor
Roy Benavidez is best remembered for this?
Robert McNamara
Sec. of Defense- who was lying about the winability of this war
William Fulbright
Senator who held hearings, felt Vietnam was a civil war, not a cold war event
Richard Nixon
The Republican candidate who wins the 1968 election
Berlin Wall
The Soviets built this to stop the brain drain
Cambodia
The US secretly attacked this country to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail
the nation was in disorder and the Democrats had lost control.
The violence that erupted outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 and the confusion inside gave the impression that
26th
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18
Kent State
This college in Ohio had 4 students killed in an anti-war protest.
Saigon
This is/was the capital of South Vietnam
Agent Orange
This was a chemical sprayed to kill the jungle, sadly it has killed lots of the soldiers from Vietnam with cancer.
Alliance for Progress
This was an attempt to resurrect America's Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America
Hanoi
This was the capital of North Vietnam
Paris
This was the city that hosted the peace conference to end the Vietnam war
Tet Offensive
This was the event in the Vietnam war that really caused people to give up that this war can be won.
Tonking Gulf Resolution
This was the event that got America officially in the Vietnam war
Flexible Response
This was the idea of Kennedy that the USA was able to respond to any type of conflict
Silent Majority
This was the name given to Nixon supporters, the people not out there protesting
Khmer Rouge
This was the name of the communist group who took over Cambodia
Bay of Pigs
This was the name of the failed attempt by the USA to take the communist out in Cuba
Domino Theory
This was the theory that the United States had to stop the spread of communism, or other countries would fall next.
Credibility Gap
This word describes the feeling that what you saw on the news did NOT match up to what the government was saying.
It suggests that the Vietnam War is destroying President Johnson's presidency.
What best describes the statement this cartoon is making about the war in Vietnam?
It was mainly intended to keep East Germans from escaping to the West.
What can you infer about the Berlin Wall from this photo of an East German soldier leaping over to the western side of the Wall?
They wanted to draw the North Vietnamese forces south where they could engage them in open combat.
What objective did American military leaders hope to achieve in North Vietnam with military campaigns such as Operation Rolling Thunder?
Chicago
Which city exploded during the 68 democratic convention
Napalm
is a jellied gasoline, it clings to everything and then burns it.
Cuban Missile Crisis
this event marks the closest we have come to World War lll
Vietnamization
this is the idea of turning over the war to the South Vietnamese
Operation Rolling Thunder
this was the name of the air bombing campaign of North Vietnam
My Lai
this was the name of the massacre where Americans killed 500 civilians
