Vietnam War Quiz

Who is the leader of the Communist Party in Indochina after WWII; led Vietnamese against the French, then North

Vietnamese against the United States in the Vietnam War

• Ho Chi Minh

• General Westmoreland

• Diem

What are secret government documents published In 1971; revealed that the u.s. government had misled Americans

about the Vietnam war.

• The draft

• Pentagon Papers

• War Powers Act

Notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops; had to gain congress' approval to stay longer than

90 days; designed to curtail President's power

• Pentagon Papers

• Gulf of Tonkin

• War Powers Act

a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and

non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Pentagon Papers

• Geneva Accords

He was the first president of South Vietnam (1955-1963).

Anti-communist dictator who repressed all opposition; backed by U.S. until assassinated in a coup de tat.

• Ho Chi Minh

• General Westmoreland

• Ngo Dinh Diem

a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968

• Tet Offensive

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Search and Destroy

Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War and

other conflicts.

• Napalm

• Vietcong

• General Westmoreland

the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in South Vietnam, also know as the National Liberation

Front

• Napalm

• Vietcong

• General Westmoreland

American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from

1964 to 1968

• Naplam

• Vietcong

• William Westmoreland

What was the name of the portion of Americans that Nixon claimed supported his approach to the war in Vietnam?

• Democrats

• Hawks

• Silent Majority