The Vietnam Era Pyramid
Game Rules Teams divided into groups One partner has their back to the TV Other partner faces them while looking at the TV When the answer is given on the TV the sender begins giving clues PASS if you don’t know that answer There are 7 questions per round We will be playing 3 rounds Team with the highest total moves onto the Final Round
Each team must now choose their first two contestants. First group step up to the front, other groups step outside.
Round 1: Vietnam War
Vietnamization
Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietminh
Henry Kissinger
Tet Offensive
Answers
Nixon’s Plan that would bring about “peace with honor” Fighting over to the Vietnamese
S. Vietnamese citizens who fought against the S. Vietnamese govt in favor of the N.
Enabled N. Vietnam to send troops to S. Vietnam
Org. whose goal was to win Vietnamese independence from foreign rule
Top US negotiator on Vietnam during Nixon’s presidency
Vietnamese New Year; North attacked South Vietnam
Now two NEW contestants from each group
Round 2: Movements at Home
Betty Friedan
Cesar Chavez
New Right
Feminism
NOW National Organization for Women
La Raza Unida
American Indian Movement
Round 2 Answers
Wrote The Feminine Mystique
Helped farm workers win more rights, higher wages
Opposed the women’s movement on a variety of issues
Wanted “Equal Pay for equal Work”
Focused on bringing changes to the workplace, such as ending gender discrimination in hiring
1970 group that helped Latinos win political offices
Militant group; org’d uprising to draw attention to the needs of Native Americans
Round 3
Round 3: Nixon & Watergate
OPEC
John Erlichman
Saturday Night Massacre
Gerald Ford
Wire Tapping
Leon Jaworski
Peace with Honor
Round 3 Answers
Cut off their supply of oil to the US
One of Nixon’s closest advisers
Event in which Nixon order Atty. Gen. Richardson to fire the special prosecutor, Cox, investigating the Watergate break-in
President after Nixon resigned
Technique used by the Nixon administration against perceived enemies in the US
Replaced Cox as special proesecutor
Nixon’s policy for leaving Vietnam
Winner’s Circle
Your team needs 5 out of 6 to win!!! Choose your 2 contestants
Pentagon Papers
100
100
Domino Theory
100150
100150
William Westmoreland
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Phyllis Schlafly
Lyndon B. Johnson