vietnam war
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- general westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam
- society
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
- dien bien phu
- In 1954, Vietminh rebels besieged a French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, deep in the interior of northern Vietnam. In May, after the United States refused to intervene, Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists.
- ho chi minh trail
- Network Of Jungle Paths From North Vietnam Through Laos And Cambodia And Into South Vietnam; Served As The Major Supply Route For The Vietcong
- ho chi minh
- a world wanderer and man of many names he is best known as ho chi minh. during the 1920's and 1930's ho lived in china and the soviet union white working for vietnamese independence.
- kent state shooting
- National Guard troops shot randomly into a large group of students killing 4 and injuring 9.
- pentagon papers
- Documents that revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war
- gulf of tonkin resolution
- allowed the president to take all necassay measures to repel armed attack or prevent further aggression
- domino theory
- in the Cold War, belief that if South Vietnam became communist, other countries in Southeast Asia would become communist, too.
- credibility gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- vietminh
- the League for the Independence of Vietnam
- hawks and doves
- americans who supported the vietnam war..... americans who opposed the vietnam war
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- a former government official under the french u.s officials hoped that diems nationalist beliefs would make him an acceptable leader to the people of south vietnam
- guerilla war
- using sabotage:war tactics
- henry kissinger
- He was Nixon's key foreign- policy advicer, he fled the country as a teenager with his parent to escape the Nazis. Also he joined the U.S. Army Counter-intelligen Corps and served for three years.
- students for democratic
- students group that actively protested the vietnam war.