Vietnam War
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- Guerilla War
- A war where no one knew the difference between civilians and the Vietcong. (Even women and children were involved)
- Credibility Gap
- A gap between the government and the media.
- Vietminh
- League for the Independence of Vietnam; group of Vietnamese nationalists organized in the 1940's by Ho Chi Minh to drive the Japanese out of Vietnam.
- Vietnamization
- Turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese while gradually pulling out U.S. troops.
- General Westmoreland
- Commander of the U.S. forces in Vietnam
- Hawks
- Hawks were people who supported the wars goals.
- Henry Kissinger
- Nixon's foreign policy leader.
- 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 4 people.
- Ho Chih Minh
- Worked hard for South Vietnamese independence.
- Agent Orange
- A strong chemical used that stripped the land of vegetation.
- Doves
- Doves were people who opposed the war.
- Domino Theory
- Cold War era belif that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of South Asia would fall.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Congressional measure that gave president Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam.
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- A network of jungle paths.
- Tet Offensive
- An attack expected to bring down South Vietnam's government.
- Students for Democratic Society
- Group of students that actively protested the Vietnam War.
- Dien Bien Phu
- An international conference to settle the Indochina conflict began in Geneva, Switzerland
- Vietcong
- National Liberation Front; comunist guerrilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dinh Diem's government in the South.
- 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.
- Pentagon Papers
- Documents that revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war.