The Vietnam WarImportant
PeoplePlaces on the
MapTerms of War Items in the
News
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Important People - 200• U.S. president who said that U.S. military advisors
would fire if they were fired upon.
Important People - 300• U.S. president who ordered continuous bombing
of North Vietnam below the 20th parallel in 1965.
Important People - 800• Man who became president of South Vietnam in
1955 who was assassinated in 1963 (against Kennedy’s wishes).
Places on the Map - 600
• European city where a cease-fire accord was signed between the French and North Vietnam.
Places on the Map - 800
• Gulf that lies off the east coast of Vietnam (essentially began U.S. involvement under Lyndon B. Johnson)
Terms of War - 500• Official postponement of military service –
medical and schooling were the two most common means.
Items in the News - 100
• North Vietnamese communists who worked their way into South Vietnamese society.
Items in the News - 200
• Trail used by North Vietnamese soldiers to move supplies and to make attacks on South Vietnam – through Laos and Cambodia.
Items in the News - 300
• Term coined under Nixon’s presidency meaning the gradual withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam.
Items in the News - 400
• Parallel at which Vietnam was divided in 1954, giving the communists control of North Vietnam.
Items in the News - 500
• Religious group that denounced the government of South Vietnam in 1963, as its leader was strongly Catholic.
Items in the News - 600
• Chemical agent used by the United States to destroy the vegetation in Vietnam, exposing the Vietcong and North Vietnamese.
Items in the News - 800
• Classified documents on U.S. involvement in Vietnam published by the New York Times – pre-planned to enter with not plan of withdrawing under Johnson.
The Vietnam War - Answers
Important People
Places on the Map
Terms of War Items in the News
Ho Chi Minh Cambodia Containment Vietcong
John F. Kennedy Saigon Guerilla Warfare
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Lyndon Johnson My Lai Military Advisors
Vietnamization
Doves France Domino Theory 17th Parallel
Hawks China & Soviet Union
Deferment Buddhists
Richard Nixon Geneva Escalation Agent Orange
Westmoreland Indochina Demilitarized Zone
Tonkin Resolution
Ngo Dinh Diem Gulf of Tonkin Refugee Pentagon Papers