Chapter 24 Vocab
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- Tet Offensive
- Attack by N. Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against S. Vietnam during the Vietnam War; came during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year; demonstrated that the N. Vietnamese were still military strong
- War Powers 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
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- a former government official under the French
- Vietcong
- Members of the rebel force NLF
- Domino Theory
- "you have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that it will go over very quickly."
- General Westmoreland
- Commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- this gave the president authority to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the U.S."
- Agent Orange
- the most widely used defoliant
- Dien Blen Phu
- French tried to lure the Vietminh into a conventional battle here
- Vietnamization
- turning over the fighting to S. Vietnamese while gradually pulling out U.S. troops
- Guerilla War
- a poem about the Vietcong not understanding
- Ho Chi Minh
- "He who enlightens" Committed to the ideals of communism
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- a network of jungle paths
- Society
- All varieties of ppl
- Henry Kissinger
- Nixon's key foreign policy adviser
- Pentagon Papers
- these documents revealed that the government had frequently misled the American ppl about the course of the war
- Credibility Gap
- gap between official government reports and media accounts
- Kent State Shooting
- National Guard troops shot randomly into a large group of students killing 4 and injuring 9.
- Hawks and Doves
- awks supported the war's goals and the doves opposed the war
- Students for Democratic
- Student group that actively protested the Vietnam War
- Vietminh
- A resistance movement called the League for the Independence of Vietnam