vietnam
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- South Vietnam
- U.S aided part of vietnam.
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- A big air battle during the vietnam war.
- General William Westmoreland
- Top U.S general in the vietnam war.
- Doves
- People who oppose war
- War Powers Act
- Lasw pass after vietnam war, president must get resolution from congress authorized the mission.
- Ho Chi Minh
- Communist leader of north vietnam.
- Vietnamization
- Nixon plan to force south vietnam to take care of it self.
- Tet Offensive
- A north vietnamese attact.
- North Vietnam
- Communist control part of the country.
- Geneva Accord
- World peace plan.
- Hawks
- People who want war.
- Fee Speech Movement
- College student who were fighting the restrictons of free speech .
- Incident in the gulf of Tonkin
- commmunist fire on two U.S ships.
- Students for a Democratic socity(SDS)
- A large scale group protesting the Government.
- Teach-ins Against the war in vietnam
- Form of protest were student and teachers refuse to live the classroom.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- U.S congress gives president Johnson the right to start the war in vietnam.
- Dien Bine Phu
- Last battle between France and the communist.
- Guerilla Warface
- a type of fighting were the combatants are hidden for a surprise attack.
- Henry Kissinger
- The secretary of states during the Nixon presidency.
- Napalm
- Is a power aluminum soap used to gelatin oil ar gasoline for used in napalm bombs.
- Pentagon Paper
- classified papers on the war.
- Weather Underground
- was a violent radical group consisting in splintered-off members and leaderso of the (SDS)
- San Francisco Protests Agist HUAC
- Protest against the hearings that HUAC was holding.
- Over Throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- The dictator of south vietnam Who was killed by the vietcong.
- Draft & Resistance
- People who actively fouth being forced into the army.
- Domino Theory
- The fear if one country fall to communism they will all fall .