Chapter 17 - The Vietnam War

President who used the Tonkin Gulf incident as an excuse to deepen US involvement in the Vietnam war 

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Ho Chi Minh
• Henry Kissinger

Vietnamese forces that were supported by American troops

• hawks
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Army of the Republic of Vietnam

American who supported strong US military efforts in Vietnam.

• Robert McNamara
• Richard Nixon
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Khmer Rouge

Top US negotiator on Vietnam during Nixon's presidency.

• Henry Kissinger
• Robert McNamara
• Ho Chi Minh
• Khmer Rouge

South Vietnamese citizens who fought against the South Vietnamese government and American forces.

• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Army of the Republic of Vietnam
• Hawks

Communist leader of the Vietnamese struggle against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans

• Robert McNamara
• Khmer Rouge
• Ho Chi Minh
• Richard Nixon

US President responsible for the Vietnamization of the war

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Robert McNamara
• Henry Kissinger

Communist group that took control of Cambodia in 1975

• Khmer Rouge
• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Hawks

Political organization whose goal it was to win Vietnam's independence from foreign rule

• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Khmer Rouge
• Army of the Republic of Vietnam

_______ served as the commander of US in Vietnam.

• Dean Rusk
• Clark Clifford
• Robert McNamara
• William Westmoreland