VEITNAM WAR
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- DOVES
- those who opposed the war
- PENTAGON PAPERS
- Documents that revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war
- STUDENTS FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY
- STUDENTS GROUP THAT ACTIVELY PROTESTED THE VIETNAM WAR.
- DEIN BEIN PHU
- A PLACE WHERE THE FRENCH TRIED TO LOWER THE VEITNAM AND INTO A CONVENTIONAL BATTLE
- tet offensive
- Attack By North Vietnamese and Vietcong Troops Against South Vietnam During The Vietnam War
- NGO DINH DIEM
- A FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICAL UNDER THE FRENCH.
- GENERAL WESTMORELAND
- THE COMMANDER OF U.S. FORCES AND VEITNAM
- HO CHI MINH TRAIL
- A NETWORK OF JUNGLE PATHS. IT WAS USED TO BRING WEAPONS AND SUPPLIES INTO SOUTH VEITFNAM.
- VIETMINH
- League for the Independence of Vietnam; group of Vietnamese nationalists organization in the 1940 by Ho Chi Minh to drive the Japanese out of Vietnam
- HAWKS
- Hawks-people who supported the war
- CREDIBILITY GAP
- THE GAP BETWEEN THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SUPPORT
- KENT STATE SHOOTING
- Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four people.
- GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION
- allowed the president to take all necassay measures to repel armed attack or prevent further aggression
- HENRY KISSINGER
- United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
- veitcong
- national liberation; communist guerilla force that began fighting against ngo dinh DEIMS GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH VEITNAMIN 1950S
- WAR POWERS ACT
- Legislation that reaffirmed congress's constitutional power to declare war; set a 60-day limit on the president's authority to commit U.S. troops to serve in a foreign conflict.
- VIETNAMIZATION
- policy followed by the nixon adminstration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the vietnam war to the south vietnamese army.
- GUERILLA WAR
- SABOTAGE AND PPL WHO ATTACK AND RUN AWAY
- 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)
- DOMINO THEORY
- COLD WAR-ERA BELEIF THAT IF ONE NATION IN THE SOUTHEAST ASIA FELL TO COMMUNISM, THE REST OF SOUTHEAST ASIA WOULD ALSO FALL
- AGENT ORANGE
- a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas, a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas