The Vietnam War

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  1. 7. After Johnson made the decision to send more than 375,000 troops to support South Vietnam, peace activists and college students began protesting the war. Protests continued all throughout the war until the end of the war in 1973 in what was called the __________. Some soldiers even started mistrusting the government and leading mutinies.
  2. 8. This was a program created by Nixon to decrease US casualties, withdrawing US troops, increasing aerial and artillery bombardment, and giving the South Vietnamese army the materials needed to control the ground war.
  3. 9. He became the president of South Vietnam after pushing the emperor aside, killed in November 1963 by some of his own generals.
  4. 11. Shortened name for the League for the Independence of Vietnam created by the political leader Ho Chi Minh.
  5. 12. Northern city that Ho’s forces took over when they saw an opportunity to seize control from the Emperor.
  6. 14. President ____________(last name) pledged his support to South Vietnam in 1955.
  7. 16. After DRV boats attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964. Johnson now had more war powers, and US planes began regular bombing raids in not just Vietnam, but neighboring and neutral Laos in what was called ___________.
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  1. 1. A treaty signed during the Geneva Conference split Vietnam along the _______, with Ho in control in the North and the emperor in control in the South.
  2. 2. This was when DRV forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, US and South Vietnamese struck back quickly, it stunned US public and caused Johnson to call a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and focus on peace instead of reelection, and Nixon won the next election.
  3. 3. When US soldiers slaughtered more than 400 innocent civilians in the village of My Lai in 1968, caused protests to increase even more in the US, and caused many soldiers to leave the army
  4. 4. This emperor was left in control after Japan withdrew from Vietnam in 1945.
  5. 5. Viet Minh sympathizers in the South were called __________ (Vietnamese Communist) by Diem and his forces arrested about 100,00 of these people, many of whom were brutally tortured and executed.
  6. 6. The theory that if one Southeast Country fell to communism, the rest would follow, caused president JFK to increase US Military aid in Vietnam, and later President Lyndon B. Johnson to further increase US military aid and support
  7. 10. Both the emperor and Ho’s army wanted the same thing: a __________ Vietnam, but they couldn’t agree because Ho’s army wanted a nation modeled after other Communist countries, and the emperor wanted a nation modeled after Western countries.
  8. 13. The _______ and North Vietnam signed a peace agreement in 1973, but violence between North and South Vietnam would not stop until 1975, Vietnam was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976
  9. 15. This was an organization of Diem’s many opponents within South Vietnam that worked to organize resistance to the regime, many people assumed it was created by Ho