1970s Review

Young protesters especially focused on what they saw as an unfair

• draft system

• credibility gap

• teach-in

• division of Vietnam

_____ revealed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam

• Vietnamization

• Pentagon Papers

• The Draft

• Kent State Shootings

On August 7th 1964, Congress, in effect, handed its war powers over to the President, allowing the president to wage war without an official declaration of war, when it passed the

• Domino Theory Resolution

• Vietnam Resolution

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Geneva Accords

Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped create a ___ due to the Government's untruths

• organization

• white lie

• pentagon papers

• credibility gap

The War Powers Act was an attempt to resolve the problem caused by the ___, which expanded the powers of the president.

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Rolling Thunder campaign

• candidacy of Eugene McCarthy

• Tet offensive

Which U.S. presidents did not think the Vietnam War should be a chief concern?

• Kennedy

• LBJ Johnson

• Nixon

• Ford

Th _____granted Ho Chi Minh control of North Vietnam

• Pentagon Papers

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Geneva Accords

• War Powers Act

The goal of Agent Orange was to

• infiltrate the Vietcong military

• sabotage the Vietcong equipment

• destroy the ability to hide in the jungles

• aid Vietcong supply lines

Following the __, many Americans began to fear that the war could not be won

• Tet Offensive

• Mai Lai Massacre

• Bataan Death March

• Gulf of Tonkin

The gradual withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam by Nixon was called

• the credibility gap

• Westernization

• Vietnamization

• The Domino Theory