Vietnam Quiz Study

1. Temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17^th parallel.

2. This granted the U.S. president broad military powers in Vietnam.

3. This was the first extensive U.S. bombing of N. Vietnam.

4. When this fell to Vietnamese forces in 1959, the French began to leave Vietnam.

5. This was based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall to communism one after the other.

6. This allowed Communists in N Vietnam to supply military arms to the government opposition group in S Vietnam.

7. This was a S Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousands of assassinations of S Vietnamese government officials.

8. He led the Indochinese Communist Party and fought French, Japanese, and U.S. forces for the independence of Vietnam.

9. This anti-Communist S Vietnam president canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam.

10. This S Vietnamese policy was intended to combat the growing popularity and presence of an antigovernment group in the South’s countryside.

11. This group, formed by Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups in 1941, declared independence from foreign rule as its single goal.

To expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped this gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles of Vietnam.

The U.S. military used planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic chemical, which devastated the landscape of Vietnam.

Critics of Johnson’s policies in Vietnam used this term to describe their distrust of what the Johnson administration reported to the public about war

As the U.S. commander in S Vietnam, this general introduced the concept of the body count in the belief that as the number of Vietcong casualties rose, the Vietcong would eventually surrender.