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21 Cards in this Set
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President after Kennedy |
Lyndon B Johnson |
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President Johnson passed |
Many equal right laws making blacks equal to whites in 1964 |
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“the Five O’Clock Follies” were |
Lies the Government told so people believe they were winning the war |
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Was the Vietnam war a war |
No, it was called a police action |
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In 1965 half a million soldiers were in Vietnam, were the USA winning |
No, it was a stalemate |
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fighting in Vietnam was difficult, dangerous, and exhausting for US soldiers because |
monsoons |
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What are monsoons |
heavy rains caused by seasonal winds—soaked soldiers and turned unpaved roads into muddy rivers. |
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Booby traps could |
kill unlucky American soldiers who stepped on them |
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Some booby traps were |
The simplest kind were holes in the ground with very sharp wooden stakes that had excrement on them. The traps were hidden by sticks, dirt, and leaves. |
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The Vietcong had miles |
Secret tunnels |
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The tunnels contained... |
living quarters and kitchens. Some had hospitals, classrooms, and shops for building weapons |
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US troops flooded the tunnels or threw explosives into them. Sometimes, small, thin US soldiers were sent in to attack whoever was left inside... they were called what |
Tunnel rats |
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What is napalm |
fire bomb that is almost impossible to put out |
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What is Agent Orange |
a chemical that destroyed the canopy of trees in the jungle |
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What did agent orange do to people |
cause cancer in anyone exposed to it, as well as birth defects in their babies |
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Because of Agent Orange people in the USA turned |
many people in the United States against the war |
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Vietnam was the first |
Televised war |
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Bad thing American soldiers did were |
Torched a 9 year girl Massacre a village of women and children Shoot prisoners |
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The United States had a |
Draft (force young healthy men into war) |
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Men who were draft were mainly |
poor and working-class men without no college education |
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President who forgave draft dodgers |
Jimmy Carter |
