Name: Hour:Vietnam Study Guide

All of Chapter 19, Section 1 in Ch. 20

Chapter 19 Section 1 (pages 654-661)1.Why did American get involved in Vietnam (hint: it is part of the Cold

War)?

2.What 2 events prompted President Truman to aid France in their war to control Vietnam?

A.

B.

3.What does the domino theory state?

4.In what region of the globe did the U.S. government believe the domino theory applied?

5.How did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution violate the Constitution?

6.What 2 countries aided the North Vietnamese Communists?

7.Why did President Johnson not want to commit to a full-scale invasion of N. Vietnam?

8.What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail? What countries did it run through?

9.What was the purpose of Agent Orange?

Chapter 19 Section 2 (pages 664-669)10. Why did more African Americans die in Vietnam in relation to white

Americans?

11. What are 2 ways the draft was unfair? A.

B.

12. Who won the Tet Offensive militarily?

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13. What impact did Tet have on American public opinion over the war in Vietnam?

14. What was the philosophy behind the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18?

15. What is the credibility gap?

16. Which Democratic Party presidential candidate was assassinated in June 1968?

17. 1968 is often considered a turning point in American History. What were 4 significant events of 1968? (look at page 667-669)

A. Which civil rights leader was killed in 1968? __________________

B. What national election was happening in 1968? _________________

C. Who decided not to run for President again in 1968? _______________

D. What event took place that turned America against the war in Vietnam? ________

Chapter 19 Section 3 (Pages 670-675)18. What was Nixon’s policy of Vietnamization?

19. Why was the My Lai Massacre important?A. What happened? B. What increased as a result? C. Who tried to cover it up? D. What did it violate?

20. What are 4 facts about the Kent State shooting?A. How many students were killed? B. What were the students protesting on the campus? C. What did conservative Americans feel towards the students? D. Who opened fire on the protestors?

21. What did Congress do after Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia?

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22. What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?

23. What happened to South Vietnam after the U.S. ended its involvement there?

24. What impact did POWs have on America after the war?

25. What are 4 legacies or affects the Vietnam War left on America?A. How many American soldiers died? How many Vietnamese died? American deaths: ____________ Vietnamese deaths: _________B. What did Congress pass to reestablish some limits on the President’s power? ________

C. Who did Americans starts doubting? ______________

D. Americans lost confidence in the government’s ability to contain what? _________

Chapter 20 Section 1 (pages 682-685)26. Define counterculture:

27. Who wrote the Port Huron Statement?

What did they believe?

28. What is the relationship between the baby boom and the youth movement of the late 60s?

29. What did the students at the University of California Berkeley want and eventually were guaranteed by the Supreme Court?

30. What were 2 ways students in the Free Speech Movement protested?

#1

#2

31. Hippies wanted to create utopias. Define utopia:

Name: Hour:32. What are 4 results of the counterculture movement?

A. C.

B. D.

33. What was Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco known as?

34. What is Woodstock 1969?

35. What were 3 reasons young people began the youth movement in the last 60s?

A.

B.

C.36. How did media images change American views about government and

war?