Unit 9 Cold War (P2), Obj. #5 End of Vietnam War

A former congressman and vice president, he was elected as the 37th president of the United States in 1968. During his campaign he promised to end the Vietnam War with a "peace with honor," resulting in the 1969 policy of Vietnamization.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Gerald R. Ford

• Richard M. Nixon

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The name of the location of the massacre, where between 300-500 Vietnamese civilians were systematically killed by American forces in a "search and destroy" mission on March 16, 1968.

• Srebrenica

• My Lai

• Babi Yar

• Halabja

The name of the thousands of classified (secret) government documents that were leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post and subsequently printed in a series of articles published by the newspapers, revealing that political and military leaders had not been truthful about the Vietnam War.

• WikiLeaks Documents

• Vietnam Cables

• Pentagon Papers

• Hutchinson Papers

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Etched in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., the number of US service members who died in the Vietnam War.

• 58,220

• 116,516

• 405,399

• 620,00

Which of the following is TRUE about the end of the Vietnam War?

• The war officially ended on April 30, 1975, when Saigon (the South's capital) fell to the North Vietnamese.

• It resulted in the unification of Vietnam.

• It was preceded by the withdraw of American forces in 1973.

• All of the above.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9