All About the Vietnam War

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  1. 2. The United States foreign policy of containing communism at all costs.
  2. 5. Who won the Vietnam War?
  3. 7. a herbicide mixture used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War
  4. 8. Who was communist in Vietnam?
  5. 10. another name for the Draft
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  1. 1. President Nixon outlined a plan which was a process to remove U.S. troops from Vietnam while handing back the fighting to the South Vietnamese. The withdrawal of U.S. troops began in July 1969. To bring a faster end to hostilities, President Nixon also expanded the war into other countries, such as Laos and Cambodia.
  2. 3. On January 30, 1968, the North Vietnamese surprised both the U.S. forces and the South Vietnamese by orchestrating a coordinated assault with the Viet Cong to attack about a hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns. Even though the United States and South Vietnam could easily battle off the attack, the realization came that they were up against a big enemy.
  3. 4. These were papers that held the secret plans of the United States government and Nixon tried very hard to keep them from the American people. They were revealed and this widened the credibility gap.
  4. 6. The kinds of Warfare Vietnam used
  5. 9. The United States had this theory that if the one country of Southeast Asia fell to communism, then all would fall, causing a domino effect.