the vietnam war jeopardy
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THE VIETNAM WAR
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THE VIETNAM WAR
Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
– 100 Points
What is napalm?
Chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs – 200 Points
What is Agent
Orange?
Improving relations with the Soviet Union and china to persuade them
to cut back their aid to North Vietnam – 300 Points
What is linkage?
The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to –
400 Points
What is win independence from Japan?
A strategy that led troops to count bodies after battles – 500 Points
What were body counts to show that the US was winning the war of attrition?
Soldier whose fate was undetermined – 100
Points
What is MIA?
Forces made up of north and South Vietnamese, but supplied by North Vietnam – 200 Points
Who were the
Vietcong?
Fear that a communist Vietnam would lead to other Southeast
Asian communist governments – 300 Points
What is the domino theory?
This was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30,
1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of
surprising attacks that were launched against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a
period when no attacks were supposed to take place– 400 Points
What is the Tet Offensive?
Double Jeopardy
Vietcong's battle tactics and ways that American troops countered their
tactics– 500 Points
What was battle tactics comprised a flexible mix of guerrilla and
conventional warfare battle tactics from the Vietcong and it was
countered by napalm, agent orange,
and searching for ambushes?
Nixon’s Special assistant for nation security affairs– 100 Points
Who was Henry
Kissinger?
Feared the Vietnam War would draw attention from the civil rights movement
– 200 PointsWho is Martin Luther King?
Democratic Candidate assassinated in a
California Hotel– 300 Points
Who is Robert
Kennedy?
Peace negotiator for the North Vietnamese – 400 Points
Who is Le Duc Tho?
South Vietnams president at the end of the Vietnam War – 500 Points
Who is Nguyen Van
Thieu?
The place where in 1968 antiwar protesters and
police clashed outside – 100 Points
What is Democratic National
Convention?
When the French left Vietnam, the U.S.
stepped in to – 200 Points
What was it to be the principle
protector of the new government?
The main reason that President Johnson refused to order a full-scale invasion of
North Vietnam was his fear of this – 300 Points
What is bringing
China into the war?
The reason Kennedy felt the need to step up in Vietnam – 400 Points
What is the Republicans accusing the Democrats
of losing China to communism?
Many government officials during the
Johnson administration privately questioned the
war while publicly defending it– 500 Points
What were the Pentagon Papers?
A massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops – 100 Points
What was My Lai?
It temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th
parallel – 200 Points
What were the Geneva
Accords?
The results of Nixon’s decision to invade
Cambodia – 300 Points
What is the repealing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The two events that led Truman to help France in
Vietnam – 400 Points
What is the fall of China to communism and the outbreak of the Korean
War?
He was the democratic candidate assassinated in a California hotel – 500
Points
Who was Robert
Kennedy?
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