Vietnam War
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- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnam non-Communist leader
- Tet Offensive
- Attack By North Vietnamese and Vietcong Troops against South Vietnam During the vietnam war
- War Powers Act
- Legislation that reafffirmed congress power to declare war
- Gulf of tonkin Resolution
- was a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- Henry Kissinger
- United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
- Students For Democratic Society
- Student Group that actively protested the Vietnam war
- Credibility Gap
- A lack of popular confidence in the truth of the claims or public statements made by the federal government, large corporations, politicians, etc.
- Dien Bien Phu
- French Military base in Vietnam, Viet Minh overtook result; US steps in, Geneva, Ho Chi Minh withdraws troops N of 17th parallel
- General Westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam
- Kent State Shooting
- incident in which national guard troops fired at a group of students during an anti-war protest at kent state university,killing four people
- 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)
- Ho Chih Min Trail
- a network of jumbo pass from north vietnam threw laos and cambodia and into south vietnam
- Vietcong
- National Liberation Front
- Vietnamization
- Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the south vietnamese army
- Hawks and Doves
- hawks were the ones who suppoeted the vietnam war ,doves were the ones who opposed the vietnam war
- Vietminh
- League for the independence of Vietnam
- Domino Theory
- cold war era belief tat if one nation in southeast asia fell to communism, the rest of southeast asia would also fall
- Guerilla War
- a letter
- Agent Orange
- a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
- Pentagon Papers
- Secret government documents in 1971