US HistoryCh. 20

Vietnam War Era

Mr. Hawkins

Hunt for October (Baseball)

• Class will be divided into two teams.• Batter will be given question.• If responded to correctly, batter will pull a card from a

bag. Cards will be designated as single, double, triple, home run, and out.

• If responded to incorrectly it counts as an out, and the side is retired.

• Behavior may result in an automatic out as well. Umpire (Mr. Hawkins) will have ultimate decision.

• Team with the highest total at the end of the game will earn 5 bonus points towards test.

• President Nixon’s leading adviser on national security and international affairs

• Henry Kissinger

• guerrilla fighters who launched an insurgency in Vietnam

• Vietcong

• a coordinated assault by communist forces on more than 40 cities in Vietnam

• Tet Offensive

• rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh

• an antiwar candidate for President in 1968

• Eugene McCarthy

• Chinese premier who normalized relations with President Nixon

• Zhou Enlai

• a classified government history of American involvement in Vietnam

• Pentagon Papers

• a Vietnamese village attacked by American troops

• My Lai

• a jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large canisters

• napalm

• the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its neighbors would follow

• domino theory

• President Johnson entered the Vietnam War because he

• believed in the domino theory.

• The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed President Johnson to

• take all necessary measures to defend against armed attacks on U.S. forces.

• Operation Rolling Thunder was a(n)

• sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

• The American public began to distrust the Johnson administration because of the

• credibility gap.

• Starting in the mid-1800s, hoards of people traveled to the West out of a desire to

• strike it rich by finding gold or silver.

• Why was the Tet Offensive considered a turning point in the war?

• The Vietcong and North Vietnamese showed that they could still fight.

• President Nixon’s Vietnamization policy emphasized that the United States must

• empower South Vietnamese forces to assume more combat duties.

• Which country did President Nixon visit to improve trade relations?

• China

• The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

• slowed the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States.