Vietnam sec II
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- Agent Orange
- a chemical that kills plants
- escalation
- the policy of increasing military involvement, as in Vietnam
- guerilla warfare
- surprise attacks by small bands of fighters
- US Maddox
- a US destroyer patroling the Gulf of Tonkin which was fired on by North Vietnamese torpedo boats
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- congressional resolution that gave the president power to use military force in Vietnam
- Tet offensive
- a surprise attack by the Viet Cong on US military bases and more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, during Tet which is the Vietnamese lunar New Year and it was also the turning point of the Vietnam War
- napalm
- jellied gasoline that burns violently
- search and destroy mission
- US troops hunted Viet Cong and burned or bombed villages sheltering them
- My Lai massacre
- US platoon rounded up and shot between 175 and 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and old to kill them..showed low morrale of soldiers
- William Westmoreland
- the commander of US forces in South Vietnam