Domestic 60s and Vietnam War

The two assassinations of 1968 were-

• JFK and RFK

• MLK, Jr and JFK

• RFK and MLK, Jr

The policy of training South Vietnam to take over as the US gradually withdraws troops-

• Domino Theory

• Credibility Gap

• Fall of Saigon

• Vietnamization

The Tet Offensive and the news media criticizing the war both led to-

• Expansion of Communism

• Containment

• Fall of Saigon

• Credibility Gap

The Domino Theory was the belief that we needed to intervene in Vietnam in order to-

• Expand Communism

• Contain Communism

• Uphold UN resolutions

• End racism

JFK's Moon Program was put in place to-

• create long rang missiles

• contain communism

• win the "space race"

The murder of 450 innocent civilians in 1968 occurred in-

• Sai Pan

• Ke Sanh

• My Lai

• Saigon

One effect of Agent Orange was-

• the removal of US troops from VIetnam

• Cambodia bombed US troops

• cancer and birth defects

• overproduction of crops

The courts ruled that parents have a right to educate their children as they see fit, based on the 1st amendment-

• Hernandez v Texas

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Tinker V Des Moines

• Brown v Board of Education

Roy Benavidez, Vernon Baker, and Alvin York have all received the-

• Bronze Heart

• Purple Heart

• Congressional Medal of Honor

This event proved the VC could still launch a major attack and were not close to defeat, thus creating a credibility gap-

• Tet Offensive

• My Lai Massacre

• Fall of Saigon

• Ho Chi Minh Campaign