USH - Topic 10 - Vietnam War

Vietnam was a colony of what prior to WWll?

• United States
• China
• France
• Japan

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

• Vietnamization 
• Communism
• Domino Theory
• Imperialism

What provided congressional support for escalating military action in Vietnam? 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Battle Of Midway
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 
• Bay of Pigs Invasion

Who were the Vietminh?

• a group organized by Ho Chi Minh during WWII to resist the Japanese occupation 
• Japanese people who supported French rule
• protestors who used civil disobedience to fight for Vietnamese rights
• French soldiers who fought the Vietnamese 

The ________ were communist rebels in South Vietnam.

• Japan
• Vietcong
• Soviet Union
• Germany

What event caused a negative shift in U.S. public opinion during the Vietnam War?

• The Geneva Accords
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• The Tet Offensive
• Gulf of Tonkin

The result of the discrepancy between government and television reports concerning the Vietnam War?

• Apathy towards gov't issues
• Greater support for the President
• Growing support for the war
• Credibility Gap 

Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

• Vietminization
• Vietcong
• Internationalism
• Linkage

Limits the power of the President during a time of conflict

• Voting Rights Act
• Economic Opportunity Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• War Powers Act

Networks of jungle paths used by N. Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong?

• Saigon Route
• Bataan Death March
• Trail of Tears
• Ho Chi Minh Trail