Chapter 20 US History Study Guide – Flashcards
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty did what between whom?
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limit amount of nuclear weapons each country was making
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Which country did President Nixon visit to improve trade relations?
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China
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Operation Rolling Thunder was a(n)
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bombing campaign against N Vietnam
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Why was the Tet Offensive considered a turning point in the war?
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Communist Forces scored major political victory
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President Nixon's Vietnamization policy emphasized that the United States must
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get S Vietnam to assume more combat responsibilites
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The American public began to distrust the Johnson administration because of the what?
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Credibility Gap
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What was a hawk, and who were the most famous ones?
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Hawks wanted war with Vietnam, LBJ most famous
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed President Johnson to do what?
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declare war
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President Johnson entered the Vietnam War because he...
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believed in Domino Theory
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What did SALT I do?
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limited the number of missiles, reduced tensions between US and SU
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How did the Soviet Union respond to the normalization of relations between China and the United States?
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Brehenv invited Nixon to visit Moscow
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China demonstrated its willingness to open talks with the United States by...
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ping pong
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President Nixon believed that normalizing relations with China would do what?
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drive wedge between china and SU
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President Nixon considered his approach to foreign policy to be what?
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pragmatic
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Ultimately, the end of the Vietnam War resulted in what?
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Communist control of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
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What did the Pentagon Papers reveal?
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American leader misled the congress and American people about the war
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In 1970, President Nixon tried to break the stalemate in the peace process by doing what?
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Ordering a ground attack on Vietcong bases in Cambodia
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President Nixon ordered the secret bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia, why?
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Reduce flow of communist supplies
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Who won the 1968 Presidential election?
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Nixon
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In March 1968, what surprising announcement did President Johnson make to the American people?
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He wouldn't run for another term
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To eliminate deferment abuses, the Selective Service system...
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adopted a lottery
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During the Vietnam War, African American soldiers were more likely to do what?
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to serve in a combat position
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To convince North Vietnam to stop reinforcing the Vietcong, President Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder, which did what?
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Began a sustained bombing campaign
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Why did American soldiers use Agent Orange?
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Disrupt enemy food supply
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Ho Chi Minh compared his military to a(n) what?
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Tiger
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By the end of 1965, most American soldiers in Vietnam (got there how)
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had been drafted
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Why did President Johnson have to cut back his Great Society initiatives?
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rising cost of war
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What best describes the Vietcong's war strategy?
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fight small skirmishes
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The Geneva Accords provided for what?
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division of Vietnam into N and S
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What happened during the Vietnamese election in 1956?
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Ngo Dinh Diem refused to participate
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President Truman agreed to help France because he thought...
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communism was going to spread in Southeast Asia
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President Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam by doing what?
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Ordering airstrikes and committing troops
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President Nixon's leading adviser on national security and international affairs
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HEnry Kissinger
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guerrilla fighters who launched an insurgency in Vietnam
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Vietcong
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a coordinated assault by communist forces on more than 40 cities in Vietnam
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Tet offensive
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rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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an antiwar candidate for President in 1968
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Eugene McCarthy
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Chinese premier who normalized relations with President Nixon
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Zhou Enali
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a classified government history of American involvement in Vietnam
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pentagon papers
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a Vietnamese village attacked by American troops
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My Lai
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a jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large canisters
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napalm
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the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its neighbors would follow
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domino theory
