Vietnam War Review

The overall strategy of the US during the Cold War

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

Which mid-20th-century phenomenon helps to explain Vietnam?

• Civil Rights Movement

• Decolonization

• Space Race

• Liberalism

The controversial event that led to the US directly intervening in Vietnam.

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Tet Offensive

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• My Lai Massacre

Guerrilla Warfare was-

• Fighting by small groups using tactics such as the ambush

• Using gorillas to fight against enemy soldiers

• Dressing up as gorillas and fighting while hitting your chest

What were the problems of fighting in Vietnam?

• Identifying the enemy 
• Jungle/Location provided cover and a place to transport enemy supplies
• Weather and climate
• all of these

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

• prevent the spread of communism in Indochina

• reduce French influence in Vietnam

• stop china from seizing Vietnam

• support the government of North Vietnam

Which idea reflected in these remarks formed the basis for U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

• Nuclear deterrence

• Flexible response

• Domino theory

• Iron Curtain

Vietnam was a colony of what country prior to World War II?

• United States

• France

• Japan

Who was the leader of the communist government in North Vietnam?

• Mao Zedong

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Dinh Diem

Which of the following was not a reason for the Vietnam War?

• The Domino Theory

• Containment

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Vietnamization