Hour _____
Chapter 16 Study Guide
Name _____________________
8th Grade
1. After the Vietnam War, the ________ __________ ________ limited the power of the
president to send troops into combat.
2. A platoon of soldiers that massacred unarmed civilians showed the __________ that
many American soldiers felt about the war.
3. The North Vietnamese captured South Vietnam’s capital and named it ____ _____
______ ______.
4. Large number of Americans opposed the war because:
- Government sometimes ______ about the war
- Many doubted that the _____ ______ could win
- Many felt that __________ had no right to be involved
5. The South Vietnamese disliked their president because his government was
__________, __________, and _________.
6. Vietnam became two countries by an agreement that gave it ___________.
7. One reason that some Americans criticized the war and the draft was that most of the
young men drafted came from ________ families.
8. U.S. aided the French in their efforts to keep control of Vietnam because
- U.S. leaders wanted to prevent the spread of __________.
- The ___________ had gained control of China.
- France was an U.S. _______ and asked for help.
9. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped the antiwar __________ grow by speaking out against the
war.
10. Many Americans were shocked and angered at President Nixon because he _________
expanded the war by attacking __________.
11. The Tet offensive
- Was a _______ _________ on cities and U.S. bases.
- Occurred during the celebration of the ______ ________.
- The _______ _________ smuggled supplies into cities before the attack.
- Cause Americans to doubt the military’s claim that we were winning the war.
12. The U.S. opposed independence for Vietnam because Americans feared they would
become a _________ nation.
13. The following resulted from the war.
- Vietnam’s ________ was ruined.
- Thousands of Vietnamese refugees fled to the ______ ______.
- South Vietnam and North Vietnam were reunited under Communist _______.
14. The elections to unite Vietnam in the mid-1950s were never held because the U.S.
________ its __________ for them.
15. Vietnamization was Nixon’s strategy to ________ ________ U.S. troops from Vietnam.
16. The war ended when U.S. troops left and North Vietnam _________ South Vietnam.
17. Americans used _________ that ruined the landscape to destroy Viet Cong hideouts.
18. U.S. forces
- Most of the men who were drafted were poor.
- Fought bravely but were worn down by the enemy’s tatics
- The poor performance of _______ ___________ army lowered their morale.
19. President Kennedy increased military aid to South Vietnam because
- North Vietnam was ________ South Vietnam ___________.
- South Vietnam communists joined a National Liberation Front.
- U.S. had been humiliated by the ______ ____ _____ invasion.
20. The U.S. responded to the Viet Cong’s tactics by
- Spraying the jungle with chemicals
- Conducting search and _________ missions.
- Sending more ________ to Vietnam.
21. The percentage of African Americans drafted for the war was higher than the
percentage of African Americans in total population because few African American men
were in ________.
22. When journalists started to question the war, so did the ________ public.
23. The following were long term effects of the war.
- The government today relies on an all-volunteer ________.
- The 26th Amendment lowered the ________ age from 21 to 18.
- Americans became cautious about sending ________ overseas.
24. A Vietnam division into two countries was a temporary solution until the two sides
could agree to hold _________.
25. Truman and Eisenhower felt that if Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of ________
would follow.
26. Martin Luther King, Jr. thought that the war diverted _________ from the government’s
effort to end _________.
27. President Nixon changed U.S. policy in Vietnam by giving more __________ for the
fighting to the army of South Vietnam.
28. Vietnam war was different from WWII because
- U.S. had superior _________ in Vietnam
- In Vietnam, U.S. forces fought only a limited war
- There was no “front line” in Vietnam that separated the opposing sides.