Nixon Day 21 Do Now

Which of the following best describes Vietnamization?

• North and South Vietnam joining together

• The US joins North Vietnam and leaves South Vietnam

• The US leaves South Vietnam to fight by themselves

• North and South Vietnam calls for a temporary truce

What president promised to end the Vietnam War in the election of 1968?

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which of the following best defines the "Credibility Gap?"

• People no longer wanted to vote

• People no longer trusted the government.

• People with gap teeth

• People didn't trust the Vietnamese government.

What act in 1973 limited the President’s ability to use the military without approval from Congress?

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Vietnamization

• War Powers Act

• 26th Amendment

Match the following terms with the correct descriptions...

• Viet-Cong

• Lowered voting age to 18

• Credibility Gap

• Undid or reversed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• War Powers Act

• People no longer trusted the government.

• Silent Majority

• Communists in North Vietnam

• 26 Amendment

• Nixon believed there were more people who supported him than people who were protesting

• -Nixon promised to end the war, but escalated bombings in Laos & Cambodia.

• -Tet Offensive

• -Mai Lai Massacre

• -Kent State Shooting 1970

• All of the following above are?

• Reasons why the US hated communism

• Key events in the Korean War

• Reasons why the people started to distrust the US government.

• All the events that caused the US to join the Vietnam War