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Name:___________________________ Chapter 16 Study Guide
1. Describe the location of Vietnam. ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 2. What country controlled Vietnam as a colony from 1820s-1950s? _______________ 3. Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement? ______________ 4. Why did the US support the Vietnamese during WWII in their fight against the Japanese? __________________________________________________________ 5. What was the “Vietminh”? ______________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 6. Why did the US support France in its efforts to retake Vietnam after WWII? (Two reasons)_______________________________________________________________________ 7. Explain the “Domino Theory”. ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 8. The decisive battle between the Vietnamese and France occurred at __________________ in 1954. 9. What happened to Vietnam at the Geneva Conference? ______________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 10. Why were the Vietnamese elections of 1956 cancelled? ______________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 11. Why did the US initially support Ngo Diem? ________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 12. Who were the Vietcong? _______________________________________________ 13. What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail? ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 14. Why did the US support Diem’s overthrow in 1963? __________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 15. What is “immolation”? _________________________________________________ 16. What did LBJ say happened to US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964? __________ ___________________________________________________________________ 17. What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? ____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 18. Define “escalation”. ___________________________________________________ 19. Who was the commander of US forces in Vietnam? __________________________ 20. Why were the VC able to successfully fight against US forces? _________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 21. The following are methods in which the US attempted to strip vegetation from the jungle. Define each one: Napalm: _________________________________________________________ Agent Orange: ____________________________________________________ 22. What were “search and destroy missions”? ________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 23. Why did these missions turn many SV against the US? _______________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 24. What happened on Tet in 1968? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 25. Why did many in the US turn against the war after Tet? _______________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 26. What was the Mai Lai massacre? ________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 27. Why did many people oppose the draft? (3 reasons) _________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 28. What’s the difference between “hawks” and “doves”? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 29. Who was Walter Cronkite and why is he important to the Vietnam War? __________ ___________________________________________________________________ 30. What happened to Robert F Kennedy during the Democratic primary in 1968? _____ ___________________________________________________________________ 31. What happened at the democratic convention in Chicago in 1968? ______________ ___________________________________________________________________ 32. Who were the two candidates for president in 1968? _________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 33. Define Vietnamization. ________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 34. Who was Henry Kissinger? _____________________________________________ 35. Why were people upset with the “Pentagon Papers”? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 36. What happened at Kent State University in 1970? ___________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 37. What’s the 16th Amendment? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 38. What happened to Vietnam after US forces withdrew? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 39. How many US troops were killed in Vietnam? ______________________________ 40. What’s the War Powers Act? ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ |