Vietnam War Vocabulary (p. 14)

ARVN stands for

• American Rally Voting Nation

• All Republic VietNam

• Army of Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

Cold War

• JFK's main concern at the beginning of his presidency

• Part of the reason we had the Space Race

• the era of rivalry and mistrust between the capitalist United States (with western European allies) and the Communist United Socialist Soviet Republic (Russia and its satellite states) from 1945 to 1989

• a war with some chilly weather

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

CO stands for...

• Colorado

• conscientious objector (a person who refuses to enter the military or bear arms on moral or religious grounds)

• coerce

• coordinate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Containment is...

• the United States' policy of preventing the spread of Communism during the Cold War

• the way that the Hog Farm kept the hippies calm at Woodstock

• a direct response to the domino theory

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Credibility gap describes

• the generational gap between hippies and their parents

• the gap between what North and South Vietnamese were saying

• the distrust arising from the differences in government reports versus media reports

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Demilitarized zone (DZ) was the area between North and South Vietnam that was...

• Communist

• occupied by Americans

• prohibited (not allowed) to be used for military purposes

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Belief that if one country in a region fell to Communism all other countries in the area would fall is called...

• containment

• Geneva Accords

• domino theory

• the Wall

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Required enrollment in the military is called...

• POW

• ARVN

• draft

• registration

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Young people who celebrated peace and love in the 1960s were called . . .

• flower children

• yippies

• ARVN

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The intense disagreement between young people and older generations during the era of the 1960s was called...

• credibility gap

• generation gap

• media gap

• yippies

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C