Vietnam War Review

Reestablished some limits on executive power

• Draft

• Pentagon Papers

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• War Powers Act

Young activists were particularly concerned with what they perceived as an inequitable

• draft system.

• credibility gap.

• teach-in.

• division of Vietnam.

Truman was convinced to help France in Vietnam because of the fall of China to communism and ______?

• the Korean War

• Japan’s surrender in World War II

• the establishment of a Communist government in Vietnam

• the attack at the Gulf of Tonkin

What was the impact of the Tet Offensive on the American media's stance towards the Vietnam War?

• They increased support for the war effort.

• They reduced coverage of antiwar protests.

• They increased coverage of antiwar protests.

• They began to openly criticize the war effort.

The domino theory was a fear that

• a Communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast Asian Communist governments

• the Americans would lose in Vietnam

• Americans would resist the draft

• China would step in and support North Vietnam like they did in the Korean War.

What was the effect of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress?

• It led to a formal declaration of war against North Vietnam.

• It restricted military engagement to defensive actions only.

• It resulted in increased military and economic support to South Vietnam.

• It transferred significant military authority to the president.

What did the Pentagon Papers expose about the U.S. government's actions during the Vietnam War?

• The U.S. had secretly expanded the war into neighboring countries.

• The government had misled the public about the progress of the war.

• The U.S. had used chemical weapons in Vietnam.

• The government had negotiated with North Vietnam without public knowledge.

Napalm

• enemy that Americans are fighting in Vietnam

• Fear that all of Southeast Asia would fall to communism

• Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact

• Site where women, children and the elderly were innocnetly killed

My Lai

• Vietnamese civillians figtting to support the communists

• Jellied gasoline that explodes on impact

• Massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops

• Ship that attacked the U.S.S. Maddox

American officials were concerned about Vietnam's future, but they were particularly opposed to Vietnam becoming

• Communist.

• a French colony.

• a monarchy.

• an ally of China.