History - Vietnam War LBJ & Nixon

LBJ IN VIETNAM

Name of the boat “attacked” by US destroyers

USS Maddox

What did LBJ pass in response to this incident?

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

What did the Vietcong use to their advantage (through other countries)

Ho Chi Minh Trail

What operation did LBJ carry out?

Operation Rolling Thunder

What other destructive methods did the US use to destroy the jungle?

Agent Orange and napalm

Name of the famous photograph showing the horror of these weapons (children born with deformities)

Napalm Girl

How did LBJ respond to the Draft Dilemma

The Selective Service System

Name of the national aptitude test used for the SSS

Selective Service Qualification test

What did Nixon change the SSS to later on?

Vietnam War draft

Who was the general in charge in Vietnam who regularly made optimistic statements?

William Westmoreland

What event in Vietnam revealed the truth about the situation?

Tet Offensive

Name of the photographer who took a photo of a suspected Vietcong being executed in Saigon

Eddie Adams

What did this create in the US (negative)

credibility gap

What speech did MLK deliver criticizing US’s involvement in Vietnam?

Beyond Vietnam

Who was in charge of the FBI?

J. Edgar Hoover

LBJ extended the bombing to within ___ miles of the Chinese border

10

What countercultural movement emerged against the US?

Youth International Party (Yippie)

Name three famous figures in the Yippie movement

Hoffman, Leary, Wavy Gravy, and Rubin

Who did the Yippies nominate as their candidate for the 1968 US presidential election?

Pigasus the Immortal

What movement did the kid putting flowers into barrels represent?

Flower Power

Who helped Nixon to make secret contacts with South Vietnam and tell them to delay peace talks?

Anna Chennault

In what year did LBJ announce he would not run for President again?

1968

NIXON IN VIETNAM

Who was Nixon’s National Security advisor?

Henry Kissinger

What process does Kissinger suggest to shift the burden of the war to the South Vietnamese?

Vietnamisation

Who did Nixon appeal to during a TV address?

Silent Majority

Name of the village that was massacred by a platoon of US soldiers in 1969?

Mai Lai Massacre

Name of the operations (e.g. the Mai Lai Massacre)

Search and Destroy

What strategy did Kissinger propose to pressure North Vietnam into peace negotiations?

Madman Theory

What country did Nixon bomb as part of Madman Theory?

Cambodia

What did he call the bombing of Cambodia?

Operation Menu

What brutal regime in Cambodia benefitted from the bombing?

Khmer Rouge

What incident took place during a protests against the bombing of Cambodia?

Kent State University shootings

In which state was this?

Ohio

How many people were killed?

4

How many people were wounded?

9

As a result, there was a nationwide strike including how many participants?

4 million

Name of the whistleblower that leaked classified government documents in 1971?

Ellsberg

What were these documents later known as?

Pentagon Papers

Name of the group set up by Nixon to prevent future ‘leaks’

The Plumbers

Name of the notorious break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters

Watergate Scandal

What strategy did Kissinger proposed in 1972 which meant playing off major communist powers to pressure North Vietnam into negotiating?

Triangular Diplomacy

Which two communist powers did Nixon improve relations with?

USSR and China

When did Nixon go to the USSR and begin arms control agreements and trade discussions?

Moscow Summit 1972

Where did the US end their direct involvement in the Vietnam War?

Paris Peace Accords

What did Nixon do after the North Vietnamese suddenly launched a massive offensive on South Vietnam?

Bombed Hanoi and Haiphong Harbour

What campaign did Nixon authorise in 1973?

Christmas Bombing

What phrase did The New York Times use to describe Nixon’s Christmas Bombing?

Stone Age barbarism

Which event marked the end of the war?

Fall of Saigon

For how many years was the US involved in the Vietnam War?

20

Around how many US soldiers died?

50 000