What do the circle graphs show about the role of African Americans in the Vietnam War?
Question 8
8.
Question 9
9.
Pair 2 reasons why America got involved with Vietnam with 2 consequences of those actions. What does this reveal about the Vietnam conflict?
Question 10
10.
Using 2 specific examples, assess how the experience of Vietnam vets differed from that of veterans in previous wars.
Question 11
11.
Explain how at least two different social or political groups justified their opposition to the Vietnam War.
What term is for the people of South Vietnam that pretended to be allies of American soldiers during the day but often tried to kill them at night using guerilla warfare tactics?
Tet men
Ho Chi Minhs
Viet Cong
My Lai
What incident led LBJ to escalate American involvement in Vietnam by sending more than 550,000 troops to active duty?
Tet Offensive
Gulf on Tonkin
Operation Rolling Thunder
Watergate
The Vietnam War
was a reaction to repeated attacks against US troops By Russia
was primarily a continuation of the Pacific theater of WWII
was rooted in the policy of containment and the Cold War
marked the first war America had fought since WWII
Which of the following is NOT true of the Vietnam war?
All Americans thought the war was a mistake and America should get out
it is sometimes called the poor man's war
it was frustrating because you did not know who your enemies were
the soldiers suffered from a lack of quality leadership both at home and in the war itself
What event in Vietnam was a massacre that turned many Americans against the war?
Tet
My Lai
Ho Chi Minh
Vietcong
Why was Vietnam considered a 'poor man's war'?
Only volunteers participated in Vietnam.
Low-income soldiers were drafted heavily into service.
No wealthy individuals fought in it.
It had low economic impact on society.
Drag and Drop the effects on the left under their appropriate cause on the right.