Vietnam Quiz 4.2

False

Dwight Eisenhower's

anti-communist

False

Nixon was a strong anti-communist and believed it was necessary to contain communist China. He supported US involvement in Vietnam. However, when he became president, his views changed. He realized that the war was tearing the US apart, and that it needed to end peacefully.

Richard Nixon's national security advisor from Germany

It would not allow the United States to achieve peace with honor. South Vietnam would not be able to survive without U.S. help.

Silent majority

Vietnamization

there would be a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam. the South Vietnamese would take greater responsibility for the fighting.

It suggested that the South Vietnamese had not been fighting in the war. The U.S. had not consulted them about it. It seemed like their ally was abandoning them.

They did not understand how the South Vietnamese were going to be able to defend themselves against their communist enemies. If they could not do it with the help of half a million American troops, how could they do it on their own?

were peaceful

Nixon instituted a lottery system.

False

North Vietnam

to destroy enemy sanctuaries and supply lines

South Vietnam and American

National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of protesters, killing four students.

forbid the use of U.S. ground forces in Cambodia and Laos

False

Vietnamization