Vietnam war - under Nixon and LBJ

What attacked US boats in august 1964?

Torperdo boats

What is the name of the ship that was atacked by Vietcong torpedoes?

USS Maddox

What resolution was passed following the attack on the USS Maddox?

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

What is the name of the trail used to transport supplies to the Vietcong?

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

Through which countries did the Ho Chi Minh trail go through?

Laos and Cambodia

What was the name of the sustained bombing of military and industrial targets in 1965?

Operation Rolling Thunder

What was used to destroy vegetation during the rolling tunder operation?

Chemical defoliants and napalm

What was a long term consequence of using a chemical defoliant such as agent orange?

Children were born with deformaties

How many more bombs were dropped on Vietnam compared to Western Europe?

2-3 times

What communities were disproportionally affect by the draft?

Black and poor communities

What is the name of the draft which chose intellectually lower students to be drafted to war?

Selective Service System

What was used to determine intellectual ability during the SSS?

Class rank and aptitude tests

What was the consequence of the SSS?

Universities became strongly anti-war

What was then introduced to replace the SSS?

The lottery system for conscription

Who was the US army general during the Vietnam war?

William Westmoreland

What was the communication strategy used by LBJ and General Westmoreland?

Regular, optemistic statements

What event causes LBJ and General Westmorzland’s communication strategy to fails as it becomes clear that the Vietcong are strong?

Tet Offensive

What did the Vietcong capture during the Tet Offensive?

The US emabssy in Saigon

What did Johnson’s failed communication strategy lead to?

the “credibility gap”

In what speech did MLK denounce the Vietnam war?

“Beyond Vietnam”

What does Johnson do in responce to MLK’s speech “Beyond Vietnam”

Orders FBI surveillance

In 1967, what did the US use to bomb bases near Saigon, in order to clear the area of Vietcong?

B-52s

How close to the Chinese border was LBJ’s bombing?

10 miles

What does Yippy stand for?

The youth international party

What did the yppies try to do to the pentagon?

Levitate it

Who did the yippies want to run as the next presidential candidate?

“pigasus the immortal”

Where did a Yippie place a flower during a protest?

In the barrel of a polic officer’s gun

What did Nixon do in 1968 to ruin LBJ’s chances at re-election?

Asked the southern vietnamese to slow peace talkings

What is the name of the operation which consisted of Niwon asking the southern vietnamese to slow peace talks down with LBJ in order to get him out of office?

Chennault Affair

What did LBJ announce he would do during the re-election campaign?

Step down

Who was Niwon’s national security advisor?

Henry Kissinger

What is the name of the policy which shifts the war efforst from the Americans to the Southern Vietnamese?

Vietnamization

Who does Nixon address when explaining his policy of vietnamisation during his speech?

the “Silent Majority”

What massacre was revealed in 1969 which shocked the American public?

The My Lai Massacre

What campaign was the My Lai massacre part of?

“search and destroy”

Which general was condemned for the My Lai massacre?

William Calley

What were the American soldiers told to do during the search and destroy campaigns?

"shoot everything that moves”

What is the name of the policy in which Nixon acts unpredictably in order to put pressure on the Vietcong?

Madman Theory

What is the name of the bombing which occured as a part of madman theory?

Operation Menu

What were the effects of the Operation Menu bombings in Cambodia?

Lead to the rise of the Khmer Rouge

What is the name of the incident which occured in 1970 at a University protest?

Kent state university incident

How many people were killed and wounded during the Kent State Uni incident?

4 killed and 9 wounded

During his speech, who did Nixon insinuate was to blame for the Kent state uni shootings?

The protestors.

Who was the mayor of Kent, Ohio during the shootings?

Leroy Stratum

How man protestors gathered at the ROTC building?

1000

What happened to the ROTC building?

It was burnt down

Who leaked the pentagon papers?

Daniel Ellsberg

To which newspaper did Ellsberg leak the pentagon papers to?

The New York Times

What did Nixon claim the pentagon papers would endanger?

National security

What is the name of the group of people that Nixon set up to stop leaks?

The plumbers

What is the most infamous activity the plumbers undertook?

Breaking into watergate

What was the name of the document Ellsberg worked on?

United States - Vietnam relations

What is the policy of Kissinger proposed which involved staking the USSR against China in order to put pressure on North Vietnam?

Triangular diplomacy.

What demonstrated the success of triangulation in the USSR?

Moscow Summit leading to arms control

What demonstrated the success of triangulation in China?

Mao became more flexible

What action did Nixon carry out which jeopordises the arms control agreements with Russia?

responding to the spring 72 vietcong invasion

What did Nixon do to mitigate the tensions between the USA and the USSR after vietcong invasion of 1972?

Adressed the Kremlin during a speech

What military campaign was carried out during the Paris Peace Accords talks?

Christmas Bombing

When did the US withdraw from Vietnam?

1973

When did the Vietnam war finally end?

1975

Which famour journalist disagreed with the Vietnam War?

Walter Cronkite

complete the quote from Nixon’s silent Majority speech:

“North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only … can do that!”

Americans