Vietnam War
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- Guerilla War
- Everybody fought. Even women, boys & girls.They were their own army.
- Tet Offensive
- Attack by N. Vietnamese & Vietcong troops against S. Vietname during the Vietnam war
- Wars Power Act
- This act reaffirms Congress's constitutional right to declare war by setting a 60-day limit on the presidential commitment of U.S. troops to foreign conflicts.
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
- General Westmoreland
- Commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam
- Vietcong
- Communist guerilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dinh Diem's government in S. Vietnam in the 1950s
- Kent State Shooting
- National Guard shot protesting students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Congressional measure that gave President Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam
- Hawks & Doves
- Hawks - People who supported the war's goals. Doves - People who opposed the war
- Credibility Gap
- The difference between the Govt. & the News
- Students for Democratic Society
- Student group that actively protested the Vietnam War.
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- Network of jungle paths from N. Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia and into S. Vietnam
- Vietnamization
- A plan that involved turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese while gradually pulling out U.S. troops.
- Henry Kissinger
- Nixons key foreign policy adviser
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Former president of South Vietnam who the U.S. hoped would help keep S. Vietnam non-communist but actually oppressed the S. Vietnamese alot and caused some to turn communist. He was murdered by a military coup.
- Vietminh
- Leauge for the Independence of Vietnam
- Agent Orange
- Chemical used to destroy Vietnam food supply
- Dien Bien Phu
- Where the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam
- Pentagon Papers
- These documents revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war.
- Domino Theory
- Cold era-belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest would also