vietnam war
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- domino theory
- a cold war era belief that if one nation is southeast asia fell to communism, the rest of south asia will also fall
- agent orange
- is believing to have contaminated many americans and vietnamese causing serious health problems
- henry kissinger
- he was and policy adviser
- vietminh
- Vietnamese Communist groups that banded together to form a slarger and stronger party
- Ho chih minh trail
- network of jungle paths from north vietnam through laos and cambodia and into south vietnam
- guerilla war
- a war that was inpossible to tell the civians from the vietcong
- students for democratic
- Student group that actively protested the vietnam war
- society
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
- gulf of tonkin resolution
- congressional measure that gave president lyndon b. johnson the authority to wage war in vietnam
- war powers act
- Passed by congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty day period in peactime( which can be extended for an extra thrity days to permit withdrawls) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a loner period
- vietnamization
- during the Vietnam War to reduce United States troop strength in Vietnam and train the South Vietnamese to take over the fighting themselves
- pentagon papers
- President tried to prevent the Times from publishing articles about his conduct of the Vietnam War. Congress ruled the President would be in violation of the 1st Amendment
- ho chi minh
- 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable
- credibility gap
- is a gap between official government reports and media accounts grew wider, doubts at home increase
- tet offensive
- South Vietnamese went into North Vietnam and took over a US embassy. Turning point of Vietnam. Was seemingly in US control until this point... shook US confidence in military
- hawks and dove
- was the people who fought in the war, the hawks is the ones who opposed in the war and dove are the one who supported the war goals
- General westmoreland
- the commander of U.S. force in vietnam, decribed the offensive as a vietcong defeat.
- ngo dinh diem
- South Vietnamese president that was catholic and strongly opposed communism. His poor leadership and corrupt government spelled doom
- kent state shooting
- Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four people.
- dien bien phn
- deep within vietminh-held northern vietnem tried lure the the vietnew into conventional battle