Vietnam war
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- Guerilla War
- civilians couldnt be told apart from the Vietcong.
- Hawks and Doves
- Groups of people who eather supported or opposed the war.
- 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.
- Heney Kissinger
- He was Presidents Nixon's key foreign policy adviser
- Ho Chih Minh
- Led the Vietnamese fight for independence.
- Creditibility gap
- the different things being said about the war by the government and the media.
- General Westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Congressional measure that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam.
- Ho Chi Mihn Trail
- Network of jungle paths fron north vietnam through Laos and Cambodia and into south vietnam; served as a major supply route of the vietcong.
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- A former government official under the french.
- Domino Theory
- Cold war-era belife that if one nation in southeast asia fell to communism, the rest of southeast asia would
- Dien BienPhu
- the place where the surendered in vietnam.