Multiple Choice Questions

This man takes office after JFK's assassination. He created the program, "The Great Society." He also created a department of housing and urban development. His most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid.
  • LB Johnson
  • Agent Orange
  • Ceasefire
  • My Lai Massacre
1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
  • Ceasefire
  • Agent Orange
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • My Lai Massacre
A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • Containment
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Pentagon Papers
National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year, which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment.
  • The Invasion Of Cambodia
  • The Tet Offensive
  • Vietnamization
  • The Air War
South Vietnamese president that was catholic and strongly opposed communism. His poor leadership and corrupt government spelled doom.
  • Agent Orange
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Vietcong
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
An Ohio college where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the Nat'l Guard was called in and killed 3 students in discriminate fire of M-1 rifles.
  • Vietcong
  • Kent State
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Vietnamization
He sent financial and military aid to the Diem's government.
  • Truman
  • Containment
  • Eisenhower
  • Johnson
A person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. McCain was a victim of this in North Vietnam.
  • MIA
  • VIETCONG
  • WORLD WAR 2
  • POW
LBJ's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice, the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration.
  • Containment
  • The New Deal
  • The Great Society
  • The Fair Deal
Here, there we no territorial goals. Televised as the first "living room" war. Where Vietcong supplies over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
  • The Tet Offensive January 1968
  • The Living Room War
  • The Air War
  • The Ground War
Battle where North Vietnam captured capital of South Vietnam and named it Ho Chi Mihn City, Marked the end of the Vietnam War in April, 1975 when North Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam, forcing all Americans left to flee in disarray as the capitol was taken.
  • Vietcong
  • Vietnamization
  • Fall of Saigon
  • Agent Orange
A foreign policy developed by diplomat George Kennan that claimed that the only way to stop Russia's expansionist ways was to contain it. It was the basis of US foreign policy after WWII designed to stop the spread of communism.
  • Appeasement
  • Containment
  • Isolationism
  • Vietnamization
Nixon appealed to this group of people. A label Nixon gave to middle-class Americans who supported him, obeyed the laws, and wanted "peace with honor" in Vietnam.
  • Kent State
  • The Great Society
  • Silent Majority
  • Vietcong
A Vietnamese revolutionary nationalist leader. He organized Vietnamese opposition to foreign occupation, first against the Japanese and then the French. Became leader of North Vietnam. He led the war to unify the country in the face of increased military opposition from the United States. He organized the Vietnamese Communist party.
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Agent Orange
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Vietcong
A chemical the U.S. used to destroy plant life in the jungle, but contaminated drinking water and caused birth defects from those who were contaminated.
  • Agent Orange
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Vietcong
Nixon's policy that involved withdrawing 540,000 US troops from South Vietnam over an extended period of time. It also included a gradual take over of the South Vietnamese taking responsibility of fighting their own war by American-provided money, weapons, training, and advice.
  • The Tet Offensive
  • Containment
  • Vietnamization
  • Vietcong
This was where young students held Anti-War demonstrations.
  • Brown University
  • Civil Rights Riots
  • College Of William And Mary
  • Columbia University
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