 The class is divided into two groups.  The teacher takes turns giving each group a question.  When the teacher gives a question to group A, all the students who think they know the answer stand up.  Then, the students in group B get to decide which of the students in group A should answer the question. If the selected student can answer the question, that group gets as many points as the number of people who stood up  If the student cannot answer the question, then group B gets to answer (any student in that group can answer) and group B will get the same number of points.

 Who was Ho Chi Minh?

 The leader of the Vietnamese uprising against the French and later the United States.

 Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?

 Vietnamese leader who was assassinated during a coup.

 Who widened the war to include Cambodia and Laos in an effort to stop the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

 William Westmoreland

 Who is blamed for the escalation of the Vietnamese conflict?

 Lyndon B Johnson

 Who supported sending military advisors to assist South Vietnamese people fight for democracy?

 John F. Kennedy

 What happened at the Geneva Conference?

 Vietnam was split at the 17 th parallel

 What “resolution” gave the President the power to send troops into a country to fight without a declaration of war from Congress?

 Gulf of Tonkin resolution

 What was the North Vietnamese supply route to South Vietnam called?

 Ho Chi Minh Trail

 What is escalation?

 Raising the amount of weaponry in a conflict with the belief that doing so would result in a victory (for the U.S. in the case of Vietnam)

 What was the Tet Offensive?

 A desperation attack by the Viet Cong against the South Vietnamese and the U.S. forces. It was a desperation attack, and ultimately the communist forces lost a lot of troops, but American support for the war waned after the attack. It was the peak of the war in Vietnam.

 What is Vietnamization?

 Training and equipping Vietnamese soldiers to fight the Vietnam War so the U.S. could remove itself from the conflict

 Operation Rolling Thunder started after which battle?

 The Battle of Pleiku

 What did many young men do to be awarded “deferment,” or temporary postponement of entering the military via the draft?

 Joined the National Guard or went to college

 What were nicknames for the North Vietnamese troops?

 (1) Viet Cong, (2) VC, (3) Charlie

 What was the My Lai Massacre?

 An attack where U.S. Marines killed hundreds of civilians in South Vietnam. It was initially hidden from the public until it became public knowledge in November of 1969.

 What weapon has been protested for its use in Vietnam?

 Agent Orange

 What is a Credibility Gap?

 The American people’s distrust of statements made by the government.

 What were some of the effects of the Vietnam War?

 Destruction of Vietnamese agriculture, culture and landscape, 58,000 US casualties, 300,000 wounded troops, Immigration of thousands of Laotians and Cambodians to the United

 The fall of what city signaled the end of the Vietnam War?

 Saigon

 What is the Domino Theory?

 The belief that if one country falls to communism, the neighboring countries will fall to communism

 What was the result of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

 French Colonialism ended in Vietnam

 What were aspects of Ho Chi Minh’s military doctrine?

 Only fight American’s when victory was assured, fight in small units, force American troops to fight a guerrilla war

 What was the result of the Pentagon Papers?

 Americans found out that President Johnson had systematically lied to the American people and Congress about the Vietnam War.

 What was the Paris Peace Accords?

 The agreement that the Americans would cease-fire in Vietnam and withdraw troops.

 What did the War Powers Act do?

 Congressional resolution that said what a President could do and could not do in a military conflict. Particularly, it expressed that the President could not send troops into conflict unless Congress declared war, a law allowed troops to be deployed, or in case of national emergency.

 Who were the Boat People?

 The people who escaped genocide and death in Vietnam and Cambodia by getting on a boat or ship and fleeing to another country.