Cold War Review 2

Vietnam War

• What Cold War policy resulted in American involvement in Vietnam?

• Containment

• What American president said, “Ask not what Your country can do for You, but what You can do for Your country?

• John F. Kennedy

• What president said Americans should “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship…to assure the survival and success of liberty”?

• John F. Kennedy

• What European colonial power controlled Indochina after World War II? (Indochina included Vietnam.)

• France

• Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement?

• Ho Chi Minh

• Why did the United States support France’s efforts after World War II to keep Indochina as a colony?

• Ho Chi Minh was a communist.

• What type of government did North Vietnam have?

• communist

• What type of government did South Vietnam have?

• Non-communist or anti-communist

• What was the name of the South Vietnamese communists who tried to overthrow the South Vietnamese government? They were guerilla fighters.

• Vietcong

• What was the official name of the Vietcong?

• The National Liberation Front

• What president gave economic and military aid, money and weapons, first to the French and then to the government of South Vietnam?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• What president began the American military buildup in South Vietnam?

• John F. Kennedy

• What president was assassinated in 1963?

• John F. Kennedy

• What president escalated (increased) American military involvement in the Vietnam War?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• What anti-communist policy did the United States follow in Vietnam?

• containment

• How many American troops did the United States have stationed in Vietnam in 1968?

• More than 500,000

• What was the center of anti-war feeling in the United States?

• College campuses

• Who won the 1968 presidential election?

• Richard M. Nixon

• What was Nixon’s pledge in the 1968 presidential campaign regarding the Vietnam War?

• “Peace with Honor.”

• What did Nixon call his policy to turn over the war to the South Vietnamese army and simultaneously withdraw American troops?

• Vietnamization

• Did Vietnamization succeed or fail?

• Failed

• What country supplied the North Vietnamese Army?

• The Soviet Union

• What political scandal forced President Nixon to resign from office?

• Watergate

• Who became president when Nixon resigned as President?

• Gerald Ford

• What happened in Vietnam? In other words, how did the Vietnam War end?

• Communist North Vietnam took over South Vietnam and reunited the country under communist rule.

• Who was president when the Vietnam War ended?

• Gerald Ford

• What type of government did Vietnam have when it was reunified in 1975?

• Communist