The Vietnam War

All 5 presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, & Nixon) __________________ America's involvement in Vietnam during their presidency.

• escalated

• decreased

• questioned

• ended

_________________ colonized Vietnam in the 1800s and again after World War II.

• Great Britain

• China

• Japan

• France

_______________________ led Vietnam's independence efforts against the French, the Japanese, and the Americans and the capital city is named after him today.

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Din Diem

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Mao Zedong

To which U.S. President did Ho Chi Minh send a telegram requesting American support for their independence efforts against the French.

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson

The ________________________ was the belief that if communism spread to one nation, then others would be taken over in a worldwide revolution.

• Vietcong

• Pentagon Papers

• domino theory

• detente

Which president escalated American involvement in Vietnam by being the first to send 'military advisers' to the country?

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Johnson

• Nixon

Under which president did Congress first issue a military draft for males age 18+ to be sent to Vietnam?

• Truman

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Nixon

In 1954, the ________________________ was signed at a conference in Switzerland and it partitioned the country of Vietnam (North & South).

• Dien Bien Phu

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Geneva Accords

• Paris Peace Accords

___________________ was the name for Ho Chi Minh's guerilla fighting force in South Vietnam.

• NVA

• Charlie

• Vietcong

• Dien Bien Phu

Why did Buddhist monks, like the one pictured above, light themselves on fire in Vietnam in the 1960s?

• to protest the American presence in South Vietnam

• to show their support of Ho Chi Minh

• to protest the policies and corruption of Ngo Dinh Diem

• to demonstrate their hatred of the use of napalm on civilians