Vietnam War Protests & Ending the War Note Guide

  1. Vietnam War Protests
  2. S______for a D______S______
  3. Wanted to end problems of W______and R______
  4. Led the first national A______-W______D______
  5. Resisting the D______
  6. D______: postponement of service due to health, occupation, and college
  7. H______I______P______= less likely to serve
  8. Led to an increase in C______education
  9. D______D______: people who were drafted but refused to go
  10. L______: men between the ages of 18-26 were drafted by birth dates at random
  11. H______vs. D______
  12. H______:
  1. D______:
  1. The Election of 1968
  2. President ______makes a shocking announcement:
  1. Democratic candidates
  2. H______H______: Johnson’s vice president; defended his war policies
  3. E______M______: Anti-war Senator from Minnesota
  4. R______K______: Immediate end to the war
  5. After winning the California primary and giving his victory speech, he was gunned down by S______S______in a hotel kitchen. Gunman was upset about his support for Israel.
  6. Who wins the Democratic nomination?
  1. Republican Candidate
  2. R______N______: vowed to end the war “honorably”
  3. Independent Candidate
  4. G______W______: governor of Alabama; strongly opposed to civil rights movement & desegregation
  5. Who Wins?
  1. Why?
  2. Believed he had the support of the S______M______
  3. Nixon’s Vietnam War Policy
  4. “P______with H______”
  5. Nixon vows to increase the war effort to defeat North Vietnamese while gradually bringing home more US troops.
  6. 1969 = 540,000; 1972 = 24,000
  7. V______: turning over more of the fighting to the South Vietnamese
  8. With this policy, Nixon believed he had support from the S______M______
  9. Expands the war further with bombings in C______& L______
  10. Disrupt supply lines along the H____ C_____ M______T______
  11. Despite Nixon’s efforts to end the war, the C______G_____ widens
  12. M____ L______M______
  13. Calley sent on a mission to find Vietcong fighters; none were found
  14. Soldiers killed at least 450 women, children, & elderly men
  15. 1971, P______P______leaked to NY Times:
  1. The Watergate Scandal
  2. 1972 Election
  3. ______able to defeat G______M______in a landslide – widest margin in the popular vote in presidential election history
  4. The Watergate Scandal – What happened?
  1. C______for the R______of the P______(CREEP) –
  2. Ever since the P______P______were leaked, Nixon had these “plumbers” put in place to fix the leaks
  3. The role of the W______P______
  4. Investigative reporters B______W______and C______B______were put in charge of investigating/uncovering the Watergate case.
  5. D______T______(Mark Felt, FBI agent) –
  1. Why was Nixon involved?
  1. Nixon’s last days – Three articles of I______
  2. *Before the trial begins, Nixon r______; G______F______becomes President.
  3. The War Ends
  4. Paris Peace Accords
  5. The Legacy of Vietnam
  6. US lost ______soldiers, ______injured, & 2,500 reported missing; many POWs experienced torture and solitary confinement
  7. 1 Million Vietcong killed
  8. 8 million tons of bombs in the region – contaminated food and water
  9. Effects on veterans
  10. Large number of paralyzed and disabled veterans returned home because of advanced medical conditions
  11. How were veterans treated upon returning home?
  1. Passed the ______Amendment – setting the voting age at ______.
  2. W_____ P______A______: