Vietnam War

Who was the leader of the communist government in North Vietnam?

•  Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Le Duan 
• Ngo Dinh Diem

What were the problems of fighting in Vietnam?

• Identifying the enemy 
• Jungle/Location provided cover and a place to transport enemy supplies
• Weather and climate
• all of these

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

• Vietminization
• Vietcong
• Internationalism
• Linkage

1968, massive attack by the Viet Cong on major cities in South Vietnam; caused American public support of war to plummet

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• Kent State University

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

• Vietnamese Warfare tactics
• Cheetah Warfare
• Hidden Warfare
• Guerrilla warfare

What is the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of SE Asia would follow?

• Domino theory
• MAD theory
• Containment theory
• China Syndrome

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

• Reelection of Lyndon Johnson
• Passage of the War Powers Act
• Graphic coverage by television news
• Propaganda films by antiwar protestors

What did young people burn to protest the Vietnam War?

• draft card
• drivers' license
• American flags
• newspapers

Hawk

• An organization of Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups that fought for Vietnamese independence from the French

• A group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War

• Americans who supported the Vietnam War

• Americans who opposed the Vietnam War

Napalm

• Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War

• A herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

• American public's growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War

• Term used by President Nixon to describe Americans who supported his policies