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Cold War Review 2
Vietnam War
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• What Cold War policy resulted in American involvement in Vietnam?
• Containment
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• What American president said, “Ask not what Your country can do for You, but what You can do for Your country?
• John F. Kennedy
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• What president said Americans should “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship…to assure the survival and success of liberty”?
• John F. Kennedy
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• What European colonial power controlled Indochina after World War II? (Indochina included Vietnam.)
• France
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• Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement?
• Ho Chi Minh
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• Why did the United States support France’s efforts after World War II to keep Indochina as a colony?
• Ho Chi Minh was a communist.
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• What type of government did North Vietnam have?
• communist
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• What type of government did South Vietnam have?
• Non-communist or anti-communist
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• What was the name of the South Vietnamese communists who tried to overthrow the South Vietnamese government? They were guerilla fighters.
• Vietcong
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• What was the official name of the Vietcong?
• The National Liberation Front
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• What president gave economic and military aid, money and weapons, first to the French and then to the government of South Vietnam?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
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• What president began the American military buildup in South Vietnam?
• John F. Kennedy
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• What president was assassinated in 1963?
• John F. Kennedy
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• What president escalated (increased) American military involvement in the Vietnam War?
• Lyndon B. Johnson
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• What anti-communist policy did the United States follow in Vietnam?
• containment
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• How many American troops did the United States have stationed in Vietnam in 1968?
• More than 500,000
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• What was the center of anti-war feeling in the United States?
• College campuses
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• Who won the 1968 presidential election?
• Richard M. Nixon
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• What was Nixon’s pledge in the 1968 presidential campaign regarding the Vietnam War?
• “Peace with Honor.”
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• What did Nixon call his policy to turn over the war to the South Vietnamese army and simultaneously withdraw American troops?
• Vietnamization
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• Did Vietnamization succeed or fail?
• Failed
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• What country supplied the North Vietnamese Army?
• The Soviet Union
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• What political scandal forced President Nixon to resign from office?
• Watergate
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• Who became president when Nixon resigned as President?
• Gerald Ford
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• What happened in Vietnam? In other words, how did the Vietnam War end?
• Communist North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and reunited the country under communist rule.
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• Who was president when the Vietnam War ended?
• Gerald Ford
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• What type of government did Vietnam have when it was reunified in 1975?
• Communist