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- Domino theory
- instability in one country could spill into neighbor countries, and their neighbor countries
- doves
- peace-wanters
- Vietnamization
- term for Nixon's policy in the early '70s to defend the South Vietnamese
- Viet Cong
- term to describe North Vietnamese communists
- Reunification
- the act of coming together again
- Paris Peace Agreement
- ended the Vietnam war
- Nguyen Van Thieu
- former president and general of South Vietnam
- Dienbienphu
- battle between French + Viet communists, Vietnamese drove out the French
- Hanoi
- capital of North Vietnam
- Pentagon Papers
- 7000 page top secret document about the Vietnam war
- anti-war protesters
- people who protested against the war
- Nixon Doctrine
- "Guam Doctrine", US should let allies take care of themselves
- Cambodian and Laotian incursions
- part of Cambodian campaign; series of military incursion in Cambodia by US and Repub of Vietnam
- hawks
- war-wanters
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnamese revolutionary and statesmen, led commy revolution in vietnam, prime minister in 1946-55
- Saigon
- capital of Vietnam
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- joint resolution because of Gulf of Tonkin incident, gave us use of military force in Southeast Asia, allowed us to join Vietnam conflict
- Henry Kissinger
- Nixon's National Security Adviser
- escalation
- increase in tariffs that occurs as countries retalliate again and again
- draft evaders
- young men who deserted the army when drafted
- My Lai Massacre
- US raided My Lai thinking that they were guerilla warfare combatents; killed dozens, nay hundreds of civilians
- Geneva Agreements (1954)
- agreed to end hostility, restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam
- POWs
- Prisoners of War
- bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
- part of operation Linebacker 2, bombed them with jammers
- Tet Offensive
- Chinese new year, Vietnam had surprise attacks