Vietnam War
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- Ngo Dinh Diem
- a former government official under the french u.s officials hoped that diems nationalist beliefs would make him an acceptable leader to the people of south vietnam
- Pentagon Papers
- secret government documents published in 1971 revealed that the u.s government had missled americans about the vietnam war
- Agent Orange
- proved harmful to humans as well as plants
- Dien Bien Phu
- an international conference to settle the indochina conflict began in geneva, switzerland
- Domino Theory
- roll of dominos set up you knock over the first one and what will happen to the last one is a certaint that it will go over very quickly
- Vietminh
- he organized a resistance movement called the league for the independence of vietnam
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- this gave the president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United states
- Students for Democratic
- student groups that actively protested the vietnam war
- Tet Offensive
- Attack by north Viatnamese and vietcong troops against south vietnam during the vietnam war came during tet the vietnamese new year domonstrated that the north veiatnamese were still military strong
- Guerilla War
- people who act like they arent in the war but they are
- Vietnamization
- policy follwed by the nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the vienam war to the south vitnamese army
- Kent State University
- set fire on campus ROTC building
- War Powers Act
- legislation that raffirmed congress's constitutional power to declare war set a 60 day limit on the presidents authority to commit u.s troops to serve in a foreign conflict
- General William
- the commander of u.s forces in vietnam described the offensive as a vietcomg defeat
- Vietcong
- vietnamese communists by their opponents not all NLF supporters however were communists
- Westmoreland
- the commander of u.s forces in vietnam described the offensive as a vietcong defeat
- Ho Chi Minh
- a world wanderer he lived in china and the soviet union while working for viatname independence
- Henry Kissinger
- nixons key foreign policy adviser was this man
- Hawks and Doves
- americans who supported the vietnam war..... americans who opposed the vietnam war