What Was the Vietnam War? Chapter 12 & 13

What year did the United States finally begin reducing the number of US soldiers in Vietnam?

By the end of 1973, only _____ US military remained.

What name was given to the fifteen B-52s bombing North Vietnam which was ordered by President Nixon?

How many American soldiers died during the war?

The communists arrested and sent 1 to 2.5 million people who had worked for the South Vietnam's government or the Americans to ___________ _____.

Reeducation camps were prisons where they did heavy labor and were given little amounts of food and many died.

• True

• False

Some Vietnamese were called "____ ______," becuase they used small boats to cross dangerous seas in search of a country that would take them in.

As US Vietnam veterans returned to the states, they were ignored or insulted.

• True

• False

Sometimes, US Vietnam veterans were treated as the _____ in their own country.

Americans blamed the soldiers for the war, not the US governmet, yet people forgot that many US soldiers has been _______.