Cold War - Ch. 19

With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect

Why was Diem's SV gov't so unpopular?

JFK felt that he needed to stand up to communism in Vietnam because of

The US sent military aid to the Vietnam to help in their struggle to expel Japanese forces

What two events convinced Truman to help France in Vietnam?

The Pentagon Papers revealed that

The War Powers Act was an attempt to resolve the problems that had been caused by the

Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on TV helped

The __________ called for free elections to unite NV and SV under a single govt

The Tet Offensive marked a major turning point in the Vietnam War b/c

Ngo Dinh Diem was Catholic and discriminated against his country's Buddhism

A main reason LBJ refused to order a full-scale invasion of NV was his fear that it would

Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia angered Congress, resulting in

The "educational" hearings on Vietnam were intended to

In 1968 antiwar protesters and police clashed outside the

The Vietcong were the Army of North Vietnam

What was the highest number of AM causalities in a single year of the Vietnam War?

According to the timeline, when did the first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam?

In this passage, Eisenhower is making the point that

When the French left Vietnam, the US stepped in to

What was the belief that suggested if Vietnam fell to communism so would the rest of SE Asia?

The purpose of Agent Orange was to

What event happed at My Lai that profoundly shocked Americans?

The US originally sent aid to the Vietminh to help

The Geneva Accords called for free elections to NV and SV, but HCM refused thinking SV will win

The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to

The Tet Offensive was a major military victory for North Vietnam

The Veitcong overthrew the Diem gov't in 1963

Soon after the AM troops left, the NVA invaded SV and united Vietnam under Communist rule

After the Tet Offensive, the mainstream American media began to

In SV, a monk set himself on fire to protest

The results of the battle at Dien Bien Phu convinced

The Geneva Accords did which of the following things?

College faculty and students against the Viet. War abandoned their classes and gathered called

Who overthrew the Diem govt in 1963?

As the fighting began btw Vietcong and SVA, Eisenhower tried to help SV by

The number of deaths in Vietnam reached a peak in the same year in which

During the Viet.War, American planes dropped________, a jellied gasoline explosive

Th Vietcong's power continued to increase in part b/c of

By placing limits on the war in Vietnam, LBJ made it very difficult to win

As the war escalated, the draft call increased, putting college students at risk of the draft

Operation Rolling Thunder was

LBJ refused to allow a full-scale attack on the HCM Trial because

Despite the war's outcome, most American soldiers returned from Vietnam to parades