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- Granted the president broad miltary powers
- This murder of more than 200 innocent Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public.
- Nixon appealed to these people who supported his policies in Vietnam
- Vietnamese forces that were supported by American troops
- The U.S. military used planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic chemical, which devastated the landscape of Vietnam.
- In the early years of the war, a young man could automatically be deferred from the draft by
- country bordered North Vietnam on the north
- U.S. president responsible for the Vietnamization of the war
- US aided what country after WWII in Vietnam
- the growing youth movement of the 1960s
- Who believed it was unfair that they were fighting for a country that treated them unfairly at home.
- South Vietnamese citizens who fought against the South Vietnamese government and American forces
- Political organization whose goal was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule
- This was the first extensive U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
- To expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped this gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles of Vietnam.
- proved that LBJ had no plans to end the war in Vietnam if the North Vietnamese persisted
- The group of antiwar protesters who many believe had come to the Democratic National Convention to provoke violence and chaos were called the
- After the Tet Offensive, the renowned journalist ____________ declared that the Vietnam War seemed destined “to end in a stalemate.”
- Organization led by Mario Savio that focused its criticism on the nation’s faceless and powerful institutions
- When this fell to Vietnamese forces in 1959, the French began to leave Vietnam.
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- Top U.S. negotiator on Vietnam during Nixon’s presidency
- Most U.S. soldiers who fought in Vietnam were
- This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
- was/were most effective in convincing the American public that the war was not winnable
- Richard Nixon won support during the presidential race by vowing to restore ______________ to the country.
- Television, the worsening state of the U.S. economy, and the Fulbright hearings helped to increase this.
- What city did the North Vietnamese capture that caused South Vietnam to surrender?
- Communist group that took control of Cambodia in 1975
- set off the first general student strike
- The main purpose of the _______ was to persuade Americans that a Vietcong surrender was imminent
- This South Vietnamese policy was intended to combat the growing popularity and presence of an antigovernment group in the South’s countryside.
- Conducted by U.S. soldiers, these resulted in the uprooting of Vietnamese villagers with suspected ties to the Vietcong, the killing of their livestock, and the burning of their villages.
- Americans who supported strong U.S. military efforts in Vietnam
- Communist leader of the Vietnamese struggle against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans
- President who used the Tonkin Gulf incident as an excuse to deepen U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
- In the 1968 presidential campaign, which of the following candidates would a dove most likely have favored?
- commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam
- If one country falls to communism, others in the region will fall, too
- the United States’ main goal in Vietnam
- In May 1970, the students at ____________ held a massive protest over the Vietnam war which culminated with the burning of the ROTC buildings and 4 dead students.
- enabled North Vietnam to send troops to South Vietnam
- The main purpose of the War Powers Act was to ____ the powers of the president
- The Pentagon Papers proved that who mislead the American public about the Vietnam war.
- founded by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, charged that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America.
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