Vietnam Review Quiz

The Ho Chi Minh Trail was

• a secret path which was used by the Viet Cong in Saigon.

• a supply line for the Vietcong which ran through neutral countries.

• the route that the Americans took when they left South Vietnam.

• a supply line used by South Vietnam.

US troop reduction in Vietnam; transfer of combat operations from American to South Vietnamese troops

• Domino Theory

• Kent State University

• Tet Offensive

• Vietnamization

1968, massive attack by the Viet Cong on major cities in South Vietnam; caused American public support of war to plummet

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• Kent State University

Protests over military missions in Cambodia resulted in confrontation between protestors and police, with four students killed on May 4, 1970

• Kent State University

• Vietnamization

• Domino Theory

• Viet Cong

Match the following

• Gel-like substance that burns as hot as the sun and cannot be put out

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/ War Powers Act

• Gave LBJ unlimited power

• Tet Offensive

• Turning Point in Vietnam War

• My Lai Massacre

• Massacre in which U.S. soldiers killed 400+ Vietnamese

• Ho Chi Minh Trail

• Main supply line for N. Vietnam

• Napalm

Match the following

• College campus where Guardsmen killed 4 students

• Kent State

• Lowered the voting age to 18

• The Draft

• Group of disillusioned youth protesting the war, doing drugs

• 26th Amendment

• Another name for the Selective Service Act

• Hippies and the Counterculture

One reason the USA was involved in the Vietnam War was to

• prevent the spread of communism in South East Asia (Indochina)

• reduce French influence in Vietnam

• stop china from seizing Vietnam

• support the government of North Vietnam

How did the events in this cause-and-effect diagram affect the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government?

• By reducing the ability of the House of Representatives to approve military funding requested by the president

• By giving the president the power to fight a war without getting a formal declaration from Congress

• By allowing Congress to supersede the president’s role as commander in chief

• By reducing the power of the president to bypass the Senate’s treaty-making powers

What was the trail that lead from Cambodia AND Laos called

• The Cambodian trail

• The Ho Chi Man Trail

• chu chi tunnels

Nixon's plan for the war in Vietnam was Vietnamization which was to

• allow the South Vietnamese to take over the ground war

• keep the Chinese & Soviets from providing weapons to North Vietnam

• start peace talks in Paris

• eliminate Ho Chi Minh