Team Quizlet

Why was the United States government worried about the spread of Communism?

-The USSR became America's political and economic enemy after World War 2 -Communism had spread to China and North Korea after World War 2 -Communism had spread to Cuba leading to Cuban Missile Crisis All of the above

What defined the border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam?

17th parallel

In what year did the US and North Vietnam agree to stop fighting in the Vietnam War?

1973

How many U.S. troops were killed in Vietnam?

58,000

Who was the commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam

William Westmoreland

Where did the Vietcong attack during the Tet Offensive?

American embassy in Saigon

Vietnam was a colony of what prior to WWll?

France

Allowed the public to be negatively influenced concerning the Vietnam war?

Television and media bias

Richard Nixon expanded the war in Vietnam by bombing Communist bases in Cambodia

True

Who were the Vietminh?

a group organized by Ho Chi Minh during World War II to resist the Japanese occupation

Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?

Leader of South Vietnam

How did the US military attempt to take away the Vietcong's ability to hide in the jungle?

Napalm and agent orange

What was Henry Kissinger's job?

National security advisor to Nixon

Which side ended up winning the war, if not militarily, politically due to the lack of support of the civilian population?

North Vietnam

What happened after the United States withdrew troops from Vietnam?

North Vietnamese forces took control of South Vietnam.

What rule was Vietnam unified under

communist

The result of the discrepancy between government and television reports concerning the Vietnam War?

credibility gap

What did young people burn to protest the Vietnam War?

draft card

How was Vietnam covered differently by the media than previous wars?

television

What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?

that U.S. leaders lied to Congress about involvement in Vietnam

Person who was against involvement in Vietnam

Dove

People opposed to the war in Vietnam were known as:

Doves

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was made in order to end fighting between the United States and North Vietnam

False

Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Castro

What kind of government did Ho Chi Minh establish?

Communism

The U.S. got involved in Vietnam because of what foreign policy?

Containment

When the United States entered the fighting in Vietnam, leaders were following the cold war policy of

Containment

Conflict between U.S. and Cuba between nuclear weapons

Cuban Missile Crisis

Which factor contributed to the changing attitudes of the American public about U.S.involvement in the Vietnam War?

Graphic coverage by television news

The Vietnam war prevented LBJ from focusing on what agenda?

Great Society

What gave President Johnson authority to send soldiers into Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

What provided congressional support for escalating military action in Vietnam?

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Why did President Kennedy want to defend the freedom of West Berlin?

He considered it critical to defending western Europe from communism.

... was the rebel leader of North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

What were the problems of fighting in Vietnam?

Identifying the enemy and Jungle/location provided cover and a place to transport enemy supplies, identifying the enemy, and weather and climate

How did the Vietnam War affect President Johnson's plans?

It compromised domestic reforms in favor of funding foreign efforts.

What was the effect of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?

It ended aboveground nuclear tests.

What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?

Tet Offensive

What happened to Cambodia after the Vietnam war ended?

They fell under a communist group called the Khmer Rouge

What was the primary goal of the Vietcong?

To undermine the anti communist Diem government in South Vietnam

What effect did the geography of Vietnam have on fighting during the Vietnam War?

Viet Cong forces took the fighting into the dense jungles where they could confuse the Americans

The ________ were communist rebels in South Vietnam.

Vietcong

How did Cambodia help the North Vietnam and Vietcong armies?

Vietcong armies escaped to Cambodia when South Vietnam and US troops attacked

Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

Vietnamization

In Vietnam the fighters used an irregular warfare tactic that made it difficult for our soldiers to be successful...it was called?

guerrilla warfare

What type of warfare did the Vietcong use during the Vietnam War?

hit & run guerrilla warfare

The Tet Offensive was a strategic blow to the U.S. military because

it showed that the communists were still strong and determined.

To what did the "credibility gap" refer?

the contradiction between official statements and media reports

Why did the United States become involved in the Vietnam War?

to defend Vietnam and its neighbors from communism

Why did the United States support French colonial efforts in Vietnam?

to ensure French support of the United States during the Cold War

One reason the USA was involved in the Vietnam War was to

to prevent the spread of Communism in Indochina

Why did the U.S. support French colonial rule of Vietnam after WWII?

to stop Vietnam from becoming communist

What was the goal of President Nixon's "Vietnamization" plan?

to withdraw U.S. troops gradually and let Vietnamese soldiers fight the war