2.  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.

3.  Who was Ho Chi Minh?

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

5.  Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?

6.  Vietnamese leader who was assassinated during a coup.

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

8.  William Westmoreland

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

10.  Lyndon B Johnson

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

12.  John F. Kennedy

13.  What happened at the Geneva Conference?

14.  Vietnam was split at the 17 th parallel

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

16.  Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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

18.  Ho Chi Minh Trail

19.  What is escalation?

20.  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)

21.  What was the Tet Offensive?

22.  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.

23.  What is Vietnamization?

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

25.  Operation Rolling Thunder started after which battle?

26.  The Battle of Pleiku

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

28.  Joined the National Guard or went to college

29.  What were nicknames for the North Vietnamese troops?

30.  (1) Viet Cong, (2) VC, (3) Charlie

31.  What was the My Lai Massacre?

32.  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.

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

34.  Agent Orange

35.  What is a Credibility Gap?

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

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

38.  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

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

40.  Saigon

41.  What is the Domino Theory?

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

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

44.  French Colonialism ended in Vietnam

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

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

47.  What was the result of the Pentagon Papers?

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

49.  What was the Paris Peace Accords?

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

51.  What did the War Powers Act do?

52.  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.

53.  Who were the Boat People?

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