vietnam war
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- guerilla war
- ppl atakking and running away; sabatage
- 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)
- credibility gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- hawks
- americans who supported the vietnam war.
- vietnamization
- during the Vietnam War to reduce United States troop strength in Vietnam and train the South Vietnamese to take over the fighting themselves
- 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.
- henry kissinger
- United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
- dien bien phu
- place where french tried to lure the viethnimh into a convetional battle plan backfired!
- vietminh
- a resistance movement called the league for the independence of veitnam
- vietcong
- members of nlf rebel force
- gulf of tonkin resolution
- gave president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the u.s.
- domino theory
- the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
- doves
- americans who opposed the vietnam war
- ngo dinh diem
- a former goverment official under the french
- agent orange
- deadly chemical they used to get rid of forestry
- pentagon papers
- Secret government documents published in 1971; revealed that the U.S. government had misled Americans about the Vietnam War.
- tet offensive
- The Tet Offensive (Tet Mau Than), or officially, Tổng Công Kích/Tổng Khởi Nghĩa - General Offensive, General Uprising, was a three-phase military campaign conducted between 30 January and 23 September 1968, by the combined forces of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War
- students for democratic society
- radical student groups attracted a broad range of ppl
- general westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam
- war powers act
- Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort
- ho chih minh trail
- a network of jungle paths