Vietnam

Primary reason US government justified involvement in Vietnam

• To practice containment

• We wanted to take over Vietnam

• War is fun

• Everyone in the US supported it

Answer explanation

Containment: stop the spread of communism

Was the United States viewed as an aggressor in the Vietnam War

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

US had no reason to be fighting someone else's war and the goals of the war were unclear

Why did the US refuse the Geneva Conference declaration for Vietnam?

• Did not want peace

• Practicing containment

• Peaceful coexistence

Answer explanation

Did not want Vietnam to be united and fall to communism

Which one was meant to balance the power between the president and congress by limiting the presidents power with war

• War Powers Act of 1973

• Peace Powers Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• War Authority Act

What is the domino theory?

• Once a country falls to communism the countries surrounding will

• Playing games

• One of the reasons the US got involved in Vietnam

• Containing democracy

Was the Vietnam War the first war to be televised?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Brought the reality of war into peoples living rooms at night

Showed the horrors of war

Caused tensions between the government and citizens

What was the war draft?

• The process of selecting individuals for military service, at high rates during Vietnam

• Everyone from the ages of 18-26 had to go to war

• Was created only for the Vietnam War

• A type of weather phenomenon

What was the credibility gap?

• Flexible response

• The government and news reporters telling different stories

• No longer trusting the government during the war

• The Tet Offensive

What is the 26th Amendment

• Allowed to vote at 18

• Allowed to vote at 16

• Couldn't vote until you were 21

• Allowed everyone to vote

What is Vietnamization?

• A policy to increase US military involvement in the Vietnam War
• A policy to completely withdraw US troops from Vietnam
• A policy to merge North and South Vietnam into one country
• A policy to transfer responsibility for the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese government and military