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| When you hear the word Vietnam what do you think of? Ve Specific? | a |
| Why was the US government in Viatnam? | s |
| When did US involvement begin? Why? | d |
| Was Viatnam a war? | f |
| What was happening on college campuses during the war? | g |
| Did we win or losein Vietnam? Why? | h |
| Which events led to the war of South and North Vietnam? | The split of Vietnam led to the war, the Geneva Accords. |
| What were the different Vietnam policies that the President Kennedy and Robet McNamara enforced? | They both did not want the communism to spread. They would stop it at any costs. |
| Johnson changed the course of the war by doing what things? | He went to Vietnam and said that they would need a lot more troops if they wanted to win the war. That led to more drafting and protests. |
| The battlefield conditions in Vietnam affected the American soldiers in what ways? | They had to kill innocent people and they felt like they were not fighting for a cause. They could never tell who was a friend or who was an enemy. |
| What happened during 1965 and 1968? | The war expanded a lot after President Johnson was elected. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was developed, the doves, the hawks, the Tet Offensive and more. |
| Why could it be argued that the Tet Offensive was a turning point in the war? | This was when things started going very bad for South Vietnam. Innocent people were murdered. It was a massacre after massacre and chaos. This showed how the North could fight, well. |
| What protest movement did students play roles in in the 1960’s? | They showed that they had different views from their parents. They were the ones being sent off to war so they wrote thing and protested physically against the war. |
| Why did the President Johnson not run for president again? | He was kind of known as the “bad guy” because he did not listen to his advice and it ended in the Tet Offensive. So when Kennedy went up for president, he knew that it was a lost cause. |
| What was did the war affect the 1968 elections? | It was a lot about the war. Because so many opposed it and some supported it, people voted for a president that would best handle the war situation. Nixon, a republican, said that he had a secret plan to win the war and he won the election by a lot. |
| What policies of President Nixon’s lead America to withdraw from the war? | Nixon tried to make peace with the Paris peace talks, but they did not work so instead he stated taking out US troops and put in South Vietnamese troops. |
| Why did President Nixon promise to restore law and order? | Groups like SDS, the Weathermen, turned violent and of course not all people liked violence. Also the student protests were getting out of control and things were turning into a big mess. |
| After the US forces got out of the war, what happened in Vietnam | After the US troops got out of Vietnam they put together a formal agreement in Paris between the countries involved. Then South Vietnam was taken over by the North. |
| Tell the legacy of the Vietnam War? | More than 58,000 Americans were dead, 300,000 wounded, and 2,500 were POWs or MIAs. The US had spent 150 billion on the war. A memorial for the war was made. |
