This document contains a list of terms related to the Vietnam War era, including key people, events, policies, and military operations. Some of the terms defined are Henry Kissinger, who was Nixon's national security advisor; the Tet Offensive, a major communist assault on South Vietnamese cities in 1968; and the Pentagon Papers, a classified history of US involvement in Vietnam leaked to the press.

1. US History
Ch. 20
Vietnam War Era
Mr. Hawkins

2. Hunt for October (Baseball)
• Class will be divided into two teams.
• Batter will be given question.
• If responded to correctly, batter will pull a card from a
bag. Cards will be designated as single, double, triple,
home run, and out.
• If responded to incorrectly it counts as an out, and the
side is retired.
• Behavior may result in an automatic out as well.
Umpire (Mr. Hawkins) will have ultimate decision.
• Team with the highest total at the end of the game will
earn 5 bonus points towards test.

3. • President Nixon’s leading adviser on national
security and international affairs
• Henry Kissinger

4. • guerrilla fighters who launched an insurgency
in Vietnam
• Vietcong

5. • a coordinated assault by communist forces on
more than 40 cities in Vietnam
• Tet Offensive

6. • rebel leader who demanded independence for
Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh

7. • an antiwar candidate for President in 1968
• Eugene McCarthy

8. • Chinese premier who normalized relations
with President Nixon
• Zhou Enlai

9. • a classified government history of American
involvement in Vietnam
• Pentagon Papers

10. • a Vietnamese village attacked by American
troops
• My Lai

11. • a jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped
in large canisters
• napalm

12. • the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its
neighbors would follow
• domino theory

13. • President Johnson entered the Vietnam War
because he
• believed in the domino theory.

14. • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed
President Johnson to
• take all necessary measures to defend against
armed attacks on U.S. forces.

15. • Operation Rolling Thunder was a(n)
• sustained bombing campaign against North
Vietnam.

16. • The American public began to distrust the
Johnson administration because of the
• credibility gap.

17. • Starting in the mid-1800s, hoards of people
traveled to the West out of a desire to
• strike it rich by finding gold or silver.

18. • Why was the Tet Offensive considered a
turning point in the war?
• The Vietcong and North Vietnamese showed
that they could still fight.

19. • President Nixon’s Vietnamization policy
emphasized that the United States must
• empower South Vietnamese forces to assume
more combat duties.

20. • Which country did President Nixon visit to
improve trade relations?
• China

21. • The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• slowed the arms race between the Soviet
Union and the United States.