VIETNAM WAR
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- Vietnamization
- policy of equipping and training of the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- A former Government official under the French., South Vietnam non-Communist leader
- Vietnamh
- LEAGUE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF VIETNAM:GROUP OF VIETNAMESE NATIONALIST ORGANIZED INT HE 1940S BY HO CHI MINH TO DRIVE THE JAPENESE OUT OF VIETNAM
- Tet Offensive
- surprise attacks on cities all over South Vietnam
- Students for Democratic Society
- A variety of civil rights, pacifist, religious, and stuents groups that shaped the antiwar movement. The SDS is one of them
- Agent Orange
- a herbicide that is believed to contaminated many Americans and Vietnamese
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- This gave the president authority to take "all neccessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States."
- 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.
- Guerilla War
- SAVOTAGED PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT AN RAN AWAY
- Henery Kissinger
- the secretary of the stat during the nixion presidency
- Vietcong
- In 1960 the southern Vietnam formed the National Liberation Front. It's main goal was to overthrow of Diem's government.
- Ho Chi Minh
- A world wandereer and a man of many names. Means "He Who Enlightens.", 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
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam
- Hawks
- those who supported the war
- Pentagon Papers
- A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War.
- Credibility Gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- 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.
- War Powers Act
- Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort
- Doves
- those who opposed the war
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- A network of jungle paths. The north Vietnamese used the Ho Chih Minh trail to bring weapons and supplies into South Vietnam.
- Dien Bien Phu
- the French military base fell after a 56-day siege by Vietnam troops