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USH.7.7 Explain and analyze changing relations between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1960
to 1980. (E)
USH.7.8 Explain and analyze U.S. foreign policy with regard to Africa, the Middle East, and China during the
1960s and 1970s.
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The U.S. started their involvement in Vietnam by only giving training & advice to the anti-communist military in South Vietnam, known as the ____ of the ____ of ____ , or ARVN. The U.S. would not do any fighting for several years.
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The U.S. feared that Vietnam would elect Ho Chi Minh (communist leader), so they supported Ngo Dinh Diem, who was not communist, but who was disliked by most Vietnamese for practicing Catholicism in a mostly ______ nation.
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_____ _____ is the difference between what the Johnson Administration was saying about the Vietnam War and what was actually happening in Vietnam. The [same] led to a lack of trust between the government and its citizens.
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The U.S. fought in Vietnam in order to contain the spread of communism. Otherwise, Vietnam would fall to communism, then Laos, then Cambodia, and so on. This is explained by the _____ _____ .
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Most of the combat in Vietnam was fought in jungles, so the U.S. used _____ _____ to kill the foliage and leaves, so they could see the enemy.
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U.S. thought Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese wanted to be communist, but the Vietnamese really wanted to stop being a colony of _____ .
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The U.S. could have avoided the Vietnam War had they followed the _____ _____ , which required both halves of Vietnam to allow its voters to elect a new leader. But the U.S. feared that the Vietnamese would elect a communist leader.
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The leader of the North Vietnamese communist forces was a name named ____ ____ ____ .
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U.S. citizens began to turn against the Vietnam War when the ____ ____ ____ was broadcasted on the T.V.s in their homes, almost a year after it took place, elderly Vietnamese and their children shot by U.S. troops.
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Nixon sent troops to Cambodia to stop the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but this destabilized Cambodia and helped the _____
_____ come to power. The [same] forced Cambodians into communes and massacred one third of the country’s population.
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Ho Chi Minh & Vietnam were not very interested in becoming a dictator or starting a communist nation. They were more interested in fighting to be free from a _____ _____ (the French).
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The U.S. was so afraid of _____ that they helped France colonize another country, and the US did not believe in colonization by the 1950s. The U.S. disliked [same] more than colonization.
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Most of the combat in Vietnam was fought in jungles, so the U.S. used _____ to burn down the foliage and leaves, so they could see the enemy.
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U.S. citizens knew there was a credibility gap because the government kept saying that victory was near, and then after 3 years of fighting, the North Vietnamese successfully implemented the _____ _____ , which was a large surprise attack.
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It may seem crazy to start the Vietnam War because a few patrol boats attacked U.S. warships, but from 1950 to 1990, _____ _____ was the most important part of American foreign policy.
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_____ _____ was the name of the offensive where the U.S. military started dropping bombs on North and South Vietnam, hoping to hit the Communists.
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One consequence of the Vietnam War was that U.S. citizens lost their _____ in the U.S. government, due to the credibility gap the U.S. government created during the war.
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U.S. citizens knew there was a credibility gap because the _____ _____ were printed in a large American newspaper and proved that the Johnson Administration had lied about the Vietnam War on multiple occasions.
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U.S. stopped advising & started fighting when North Korean patrol boats attacked U.S. warships. After that, Congress passed the ____ of ____ ____ , which gave President Johnson the power to do anything he needed to win the Vietnam War.
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Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese were fighting the U.S. for control of ______ . They were not fighting the U.S. so they could start a communist government.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave the president the power to do anything he wanted with the military, but
the ____ ____ ____ took that power back and made the president get permission from Congress before he used the military.
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U.S. was trying to stop people from believing in communism, so conquering or protecting land didn't matter. Success was measured through _____ _____ . If more American troops lived, than North Vietnamese troops, the U.S. was successful.
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_____ was Richard Nixon's plan to slowly remove U.S. troops from Vietnam & allow ARVN to take over the fighting.
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