Vietnam Vocab
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- Ho Chi Minh
- was a Vietnamese revolutionary
- Free Speech Movement
- College student who were fighting the restictons of free speech
- Vietnamization
- Nixon plan to force south vietnam to take care of it self.
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- the dictator of south vietnam
- San Francisco pretests against HUAC
- Protest against the hearings that HUAC was holding
- South Vietnam
- is the commonly used name for the former Vietnamese state that existed from 1954 to 1976
- Geneva Accords
- World peace plan
- Napalm
- is the name given to any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare
- Henry Kissinger
- the secretary of states during the Nickson president
- General William Westmoreland
- was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War
- Domino Theory
- was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States
- Guerilla Warfare
- is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics
- Operation rolling Thunder
- A big battle during the vietnam war
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- A large s large scale group protesting the Govemment
- Doves
- people who oppose war
- North Vietnam
- was proclaimed by Hồ Chí Minh in Hà Nội on September 2, 1945 with a declaration of independence
- War powers Act
- a resolution of Congress that stated that the President can send troops into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if American troops are already under attack or serious threat.
- Pentagon Papers
- is the popular name for a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War
- Port Huron Statement
- is the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
- Teach-ins Against the War in Vietnam
- is a method of non-violent protest, first employed against the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam
- Dien Bien Phu
- Last battle of between france and the commnist.
- Tet Offensive
- A north vienamese attact
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- communist fire on two US ships
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US congress give president johnson the right to star the war in vietnam
- Weather Underground
- was a violent U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society