Chapter 22/23 Study Guide
The Vietnam War Years
1. What was President Truman’s policy toward Vietnam after World War 2?
2. What was President Eisenhower’s policy toward Vietnam?
3. Did President Dwight Eisenhower send American troops to help the French defeat the
Vietminh at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
4. The belief that if South Vietnam became communist all of Southeast Asia would
eventually become communist was called the:
5. Why did American leaders ignore the Geneva Accords and oppose Vietnamese
elections to reunify the country in 1956?
6. The ____________________was created in response to Ngo Dinh Diem’s corrupt
government in South Vietnam.
7. The North Vietnamese supplied arms to the Vietcong via a network of paths
through Laos and Cambodia that branched off into South Vietnam. These paths
were known as the:
8. After hearing General Maxwell Taylor’s report from his fact-finding mission to
South Vietnam President Kennedy decided:
9. Buddhist monks in South Vietnam committed public suicides by setting themselves
on fire to protest:
10. Before President Kennedy was assassinated, he was planning to:
11. Where was the U.S.S. Maddox attacked at by North Vietnam in 1964?
12. What did President Johnson do once Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution?
13. President Johnson never obtained a formal declaration of war against North
Vietnam from __________________.
14. Most Americans ____________________ President Johnson sending American troops to South Vietnam in 1965 at the beginning of the war.
15. Who was the United States General in charge of American troops
at the beginning of the Vietnam War?
16. During the Vietnam War the United States was fighting against:
17. The nickname for American soldiers in the Vietnam War was:
18. In the Vietnam War the nickname the American soldiers gave to the Vietcong was:
19. Name some strategies that the United States used during the
Vietnam War?
20. In America’s attempt to expose Vietcong hideouts in the jungle the United States
used:
21. Name some strategies that the Vietcong used during the Vietnam
War?
22. The United States based how successful we were doing in Vietnam on:
23. Why was the Vietnam War called America’s “living-room war”?
24. How could a young man avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War?
25. Most American soldiers who served in Vietnam came from______________________________.
26. The student protest movement against the Vietnam War, which included the
Students for a Democratic Society and the Free Speech Movement, was called the:
27. Give some examples what Anti-war protestors did:
28. Why did some doves criticize the Vietnam War?
29. The main reason why the hawks supported the war in Vietnam was because:
30. What did the counterculture believe about life in the United States?
31. Give some examples associated with the counterculture movement of the
1960s?
32. Which type of art did Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol help make popular in the
1960s?
33. Name one reason the counterculture ended:
34. In the Tet Offensive what enabled the North Vietnamese and Vietcong to launch
simultaneous surprise attacks throughout South Vietnam?
35. Why is the Tet Offensive considered the turning point of the Vietnam War?
36. Why did President Johnson say he was not running for re-election in 1968?
37. Which presidential candidate was assassinated during the primaries before the
Democrats chose who was going run in November against Richard Nixon?
38. Why did Richard Nixon win 1968 Presidential election?
39. President Richard Nixon’s Vietnamization plan was to:
40. In the My Lai Massacre ___________________troops murdered over a hundred
innocent _______________Vietnamese civilians.
41. In May 1970 at what university did the National Guard kill four students during an
anti-war demonstration protesting President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia?
42. The Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page document that was leaked to the press,
confirmed to Americans that the government:
43. Who was President Nixon’s top peace negotiator who met with North Vietnamese
leaders to try to end the Vietnam War?
44. Which country did President Nixon order the Christmas bombings on when peace talks broke down again in 1972?
45. The Soviet Union and China each pressured North Vietnam to resume peace talks
with the United States because:
46. Congress ____________president Gerald Ford’s request for U.S. military aid to help
South Vietnam when North Vietnam broke the cease-fire and advanced toward
Saigon.
47. In 1975, two years after all of the American soldiers had left South Vietnam,
Vietnam was and still is:
48. Name some results of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia?
49. Name a result of the Vietnam War on the United States?
50. Most Vietnam War veterans received a __________________ welcome for their military service when they returned home to the United States.