Vietnam War
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- Guerilla War
- People who act like they are not in the war but they are.
- Ho Chi Minh:
- A world wanderer and man of many names.
- Domino Theory
- Cold War-era belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communsim,the rest of Southeast Asia would alos fall.
- Ho Chin Minh Trail:
- A network of jungle paths.
- Credibility Gap
- Offical government reports and media accounts grew wider, doubts at home increased.
- General William Westmoreland:
- the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam described the offensive as a Vietcong defeat.
- Hawks:
- Americans who supported the Vietnam War.
- Dien Bien Phu:h
- deep within Vieminth-held noethern Vietnam.
- Henry Kissinger:
- Nixon's key foregin-policy adviser
- Ngo Dinh Diem:
- A former government official under the French
- Agent Orange (Defoliants):
- Chemicals that strip the land of vegetation.
- Vietminh:
- League for the independence of Vietnam; groupof Vietnamese nationalists organized in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh to drive the Japanese out of Vietnam.
- Vietcong:
- National Liberation Fornt
- Tet Offensive :
- (1968) Attack by North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against South Vitenam during the Vietnam war.
- War Power Act:
- (1973) Legislation that reaffirmed congress's constitutional power to declare war.
- Student for a Democratic Society:
- (SDS) Student group that actively protested the Vietnam.
- Doves:
- Americans who opposed the Vietnam War.
- Pentagon Papers:
- Set governent documents published in 1971
- Vietnamization:
- Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnam.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
- Congressional measure that gave President Lyndon B. johnson authority to wage war in Vietnam.
- 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.