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Vietnam Campus Chaos US In Vietnam 1968Nixon

Vietnam was a colony of this European country

France

He created the Indo Chinese Communist Party, organized the Vietminh and had a trail named in his honor

Ho Chi Minh

Capitol of South Vietnam

Saigon

They were officially called the National Liberation Front

Vietcong or VC

This French outpost was overrun by the Vietminh in 1954

Dien Bien Phu

The most common way to dodge the draft

Deferment

Group led by Mario Silvio from the University of California at Berkeley during the 1960s

Free Speech Movement

Students at this university protested the 1970 invasion of Cambodia by setting the university’s ROTC building on fire

Kent State

Most soldiers fighting in Vietnam were called to fight through the draft. Formally known as what.

Selective Service Act

Rioting broke out between police and protestors outside the Democratic National Convention in this city

Chicago

The American commander in Vietnam

General William Westmoreland

A gelatinous fuel bomb used frequently during the Vietnam conflict.

Napalm

Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War

Robert McNamara

The public distrust of statements made by the government

Credibility Gap

The VC attack on 100 towns and 12 airbases was a military victory for the US but a publicity nightmare

Tet Offensive

This Civil Rights leader was assassinated by James Earl Ray

Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert Kennedy was assassinated by this Palestinian immigrant

Sirhan

Richard Nixon defeated him in the 1968 presidential election

Hubert Humphreys

He won the Heisman Trophy in 1968

O.J. Simpson

This Alabama governor ran on a third-party ticket for President of the United States in 1968

George Wallace

He was Nixon’s National Security Advisor

Henry Kissinger

Nixon invaded this country on

Cambodia

The exit plan for the Vietnam War was called this. The gradual withdrawal of US troops in order for ARVN troops to take on more of the combat roles

Vietnamization

Evil Leader of the Khmer Rouge

Pol Pot

The two largest cities in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Hanoi and Haiphong

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