VITENAM
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- students for a democratic society
- , historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left
- domino theory,
- a fear if one country falls for communism they will all fall
- free speech movement
- College student who were fighting the restictons of free speech
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's policy in the early 1970s to turn the job of defending South Vietnam back to the South Vietnamese
- Guerilla warfare
- the combats hide and do surprise attacts
- hawks
- who advocated waging war
- San Francisco protests against HUAC
- a protest against HUAC that had some serious after math
- draft resistance
- a fight against joining the war
- operation rolling thunder
- a big air battle during the Vietnam war
- gulf or Tonkin resolution
- allowed Johnson to send troops to Vietnam
- tet offensive
- a north Vietnam attack
- Dien Bien Phu
- the battle the French lost control
- Geneva Accords
- the worlds peace plan
- over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- the dictator of south Vietnam
- pentagon papers
- classified paper of the war
- henry Kissinger
- the secretary of states during the Nickson president
- port-Huron statement
- the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
- Nepalm
- a substance put into gases to make it like jelly
- war powers Act
- a law, passed by congress after the Vietnam War, over President Nixon's veto, and of dubious constitutionality
- teach-ins against the war in vietnam
- students and teachers refuse to leave school and be in the war
- incident in the gulf of tonkin
- two of our ships were fired armed
- doves
- wants peace
- general William Westmoreland
- an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War
- ho chi Minh
- communist leader of north Vietnam
- weather underground
- a violent radical group consisting in plinted off members anf leaderson od the sds
- south Vietnam
- he commonly used name for the former Vietnamese state that existed from 1954 to 1976 in the portion of Vietnam that lies south of the 17th parallel
- north Vietnam
- communist controlled part of the country