Terms in this set (10) Which statement best describes how Americans in the 1960s felt about the Vietnam War? In the early 1960s, few Americans concerned themselves with the war. By the end of the decade, most Americans believed that the war had been a mistake. Which best describes the […]
Which of the following was a tactic used by the US during the Vietnam War? d. superior firepower. How did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution lead to the escalation of US troops involvement in the Vietnam War? What tactics did the US use in the Vietnam War? The USA’s tactics […]
Which of the following is a reason why US troops had difficulty fighting the North Vietnamese? The Americans had less wartime experience. Why did the US have difficulty fighting the Vietcong? Why did the U.S. forces have difficulty fighting the Vietcong? Vietcong used hit and run tactics because of their […]
The remaining Americans escaped in a series of frantic air- and sealifts with Vietnamese friends and coworkers. A military government was instituted, and on July 2, 1976, the country was officially united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with its capital in Hanoi. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. […]
In the end, even though the American effort to block a communist takeover failed, and North Vietnamese forces marched into Saigon in 1975, communism did not spread throughout the rest of Southeast Asia. With the exception of Laos and Cambodia, the nations of the region remained out of communist control. […]
January 27, 1973: President Nixon signs the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. What ended the US involvement in Vietnam? Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct […]
Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present. What was the effect of […]
It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life. Americans divided into two camps–pro-war hawks and anti-war doves. Why […]
Operation Rolling Thunder Date 2 March 1965 – 2 November 1968 Location Over North Vietnam Result U.S. failure Belligerents United States South Vietnam North Vietnam China North Korea Commanders and leaders What did Operation Rolling Thunder accomplish? Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory […]
A year later, on July 2, 1976, North and South Vietnam were finally unified. Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi became the capital of the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam. South Vietnam, as a nation struggling toward democracy, as a battlefield of American foreign policy, ceased to exist. […]
Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Why did America lose the war in Vietnam? There were a couple of reasons for this. First, the […]
7) A MAIN REASON PRESIDENT JOHNSON REFUSED TO ORDER A FULL-SCALE INVASION OF NORTH VIETNAM WAS HIS FEAR THAT IT WOULD BRING CHINA INTO THE WAR. 8) THE “EDUCATIONAL HEARINGS” ON VIETNAM WERE INTENDED TO EXPLAIN THE WAR TO THE SENATE. Why did President Johnson order air strikes on North […]
The most notable of these was the Vietnam War, which hung heavily over the 1960s and early 1970s. It was part of the overall Cold War confrontation and the American struggle against the spread of Communism in the world, but did not involve a direct confrontation between the two superpowers. […]
Which of the following BEST illustrates the immediate reaction of the American public to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968? Riots broke out throughout the country, representing the most widespread example of social unrest in the country since the Civil War. What did President Johnson do as […]
As the war in Vietnam raged on, Americans were horrified to hear of atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers, such as the 1968 massacre of villagers at My Lai. What event turned the American public’s opinion against the war in Vietnam? The launch of the Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese communist […]