Vietnam War
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- Pentagon Papers
- Secret governament documents published in 1971, it revealed theat the U.S government had misled Americans about the Vietnamese War
- Hawks
- americans who supported the war
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- A former government official under the French.
- Henry Kissinger
- He had a plan to fullfill the presidence capaign and plegded to the war
- Credibility Gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- Ho Chich Minh Trail
- Network of jungle paths from north vietnam through laos and cambodia and into south vietnam
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
- Vietminh
- Vietnamese Communist groups that banded together to form a slarger and stronger party
- Kent State Shooting
- Incident in which the National Guard troops fired at a group of students during a antiwar protest at Kenstate University in Ohio, killing four people
- War Powers Act
- Legislation that reaffirmed Congress's constitutional power to declare war.
- Agent Orange
- a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas, a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
- Guerilla war
- Savotaged people who fought an ran away
- Vietnamization
- Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese Army
- Doves
- Americans who opposed the war
- Dien Bien Phu
- An overwhelmed french base deep whitened Vietminh held northern Vietnam
- Domino Theory
- the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
- Tet Offensive
- Attack by North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
- Student for Democratic Society
- Student group that actively protested about the Vietnam War
- Vietcong
- National Liberation Front
- General Westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam