Vietnam War
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- Guerilla War
- A war where no one knew who was fighting or what side they were fighting for because no one wore uniforms and everyone faught
- Pentagon Papers
- documents that revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war
- Henry Kissinger
- President Richard Nixon's key foreign policy adviser
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- a former government official under the French
- General Westmoreland
- the commander of the U.S. forces in Vietnam
- Vietnamization
- Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese Army
- Credibility Gap
- The differnce between the government and the news
- Ho Chi Minh
- worked hard for Veitnamese independence and was committed to the idea of communism
- Vietcong
- National Liberation Front; communist guerrilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dinh Diem's government in South Vietnam in the 1950's
- Dien Bien Phu
- An international confrence to settle the Indochina conflict began in Geneva, Switzerland
- Agent Orange
- Deadly chemicals that sprayed defoliants, and stripped the land of vegetation
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Congressional measure that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam
- Vietminh
- League for the Independent of Vietnam; group of Vietnamese nationalists organized in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minhto drive the Japanese out of Vietnam
- Kent State Shooting
- Incedent in which National Guard troops fired at a groupof students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four people
- Hawks
- Americans who supported the Vietnam War
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- A network of jungle paths
- Doves
- Americans who were opposed to the war
- Students for Democratic Society
- Students group that activelyprotested the Vietnam War
- Tet Offensive
- Attack by Norht Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
- Domino Theory
- belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall
- War Powers Act
- Legislation that reaffirmed Congress's constitutional power to declare war