Vietnam Quiz Review Game

Vietcong

• Communist rebel guerilla fighters

Napalm

• Jellied gasoline that explodes on impact and covers large areas in flames

Agent Orange

• Herbicide meant to kill plant life

Domino Theory

• Idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its closest neighbors would follow

Operation Rolling Thunder

• First sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Gave Johnson war powers, allowed him to commit U.S. troops to Vietnam without asking Congress to declare war

Which president Aided France’s efforts to regain control over Vietnam and combat

communist forces?

• Truman

Which president staged the Gulf of Tonkin incident after the first attack on the USS

Maddox? He committed US troops to Vietnam without a congressional declaration of war.

• Johnson (LBJ)

4. Which president Ordered Special Forces to reside in South Vietnam as “advisers” and eventually helped

overthrow Diem?

• Kennedy (JFK)

Which president continued financial involvement (sending monetary aid) in Vietnam during the 1950s,

but refused to send troops? He believed in the domino theory.

• Eisenhower

8. What was the viewpoint of a hawk?

• Supported war– Wanted to contain communism– Domino theory– Okay with sending more troops and rising costs

9. What was the viewpoint of a dove?

• Wanted to end war and have peace– Questioned the war (is this morally right?)– Believed the war was a localized civil war, not the

U.S.’s business

5. Explain the strategies of the Vietcong.

• Fighting at night in the jungle• Guerilla warfare

6. Name three dangerous battlefields Americans encountered in Vietnam

• Jungles • Mountains• Rice paddies

7. What animal did Ho Chi Minh compare his Vietcong troops to?

• Tiger