Nixon

Term popularized by Nixon for people who did not express their opinions publicly about Vietnam, join in the counterculture movements or participate in public discourse.

• Hawks

• Doves

• Silent Majority

Nixon's policy for achieving "Peace with Honor" by gradually withdrawing American troops to let South Vietnamese troops take over was known as

• New Federalism

• Vietnamization

• Silent Majority

• Operation Ranch Hand

The protests that broke out on Kent State University campus and led to the death of 4 students was in response to

• Nixon announcing he was leaving the war in Vietnam.

• LBJ announcing he would be running again for re-election.

• Nixon's public announcement expanding the war into Cambodia.

• LBJ's decision to prosecute draft dodgers and expand the draft.

What act was passed by Congress in 1973 to pull back the power given to the President during Vietnam to commit armed troops to conflict?

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Selective Service Act

• 25th Amendment

• War Powers Act

Which U.S. President is most associated with the policy of Détente?

• John F. Kennedy

• Ronald Reagan

• Richard Nixon

• Jimmy Carter

Nixon and Henry Kissinger created what principle that "allowed for a gradual withdrawal with simultaneously training local fighter to defend themselves"

• Vietnamization

• Linkage

• New Federalism

• Foreign Imperialism

Nixon's efforts to reduce US troops and gradually withdraw from Vietnam was called

• Vietnamization.

• Triangulation.

• the Watergate Scandal.

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One of Nixon's greatest foreign policy victories was the thawing of relations with what two hostile powers? (aka detente)

• China

• Japan

• Soviet Union

• Germany

The scandal that shook the presidency and caused Nixon to resign was

• Tet Offensive

• Watergate

• Ping Pong Diplomacy

• CREEP

The term used during Vietnam to describe public skepticism about the government's statements and policies on the war.

• Credibility Gap

• CREEP

• Silent Majority

• Vietnamization