Vietnam War
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- Pentagon Papers
- These documents revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war.
- West moreland
- Described the offensive a a vietcong defeat.
- Vietcong
- National liberation front communist guerilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dinh Diem's government in South Vietnam.
- Agent Orange
- Proved harmful to humans as well as plants.
- Guerrila War
- No body wears uniform, thy tape granades inside their clothes and carry satchel charges.
- Tet Offensive
- To bring down South Vietnam's government as the people rallied behind their liberators.
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- Congressional measure that gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam.
- Doves
- Americans who opposed the Vietnam War.
- General William
- The commander of U.S forces in Vietnam.
- Ho Chi Minch trail
- Network of jungle paths from North Vietnam though laos and cambodia in South Vietnam.
- Hawks
- Americans who supported the Vietnam War.
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- A former government official under the french U.S official hoped that diem's nationalists.
- Domino theory
- Cold War-era belief the if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall.
- War Power Act
- Legislation that reaffirmed congress constitutional power to declare war.
- Society
- Organization formed in 1911 by middle class American Indians to address indian problems.