Vietnam
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- General William Westmoreland
- Top US war General in the Vietnam War
- Tet Offensive
- A North Vietnamese attack
- War Powers Act
- Law passed by congress after the Vietnam War over President Nixon's veto and of dubious constitutionality, which seeks to define and limit the powers of the president of the United States to command the armed forces.
- Geneva Accords
- World peace plan
- South Vietnam
- US aide part of Vietnam
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US Congress gave president Johnson the right to start war in Vietnam
- Domino Theory
- Fear that if one country falls to communism the others fall also
- Henry Kissinger
- Secretary of the State during the Nixon Presidency
- North Vietnam
- Communist controlled part of the country
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- Communist fired onto US ships
- Doves
- People who oppose the war
- Weather Underground
- They used terroism as a violent use as a means of social and political change
- Hawks
- People who want war
- Napalm
- a powdered aluminum soap or similar compound used to gelatin oil or gasoline for use in napalm bombs or flame throwers, or the resultant gelatinous substance.
- Pentagon Papers
- Classified information on the war
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- A big air battle during the Vietnam War
- Free Speech Movement
- Lead by College students fighting against free speech
- Dien Bien Phu
- Last battle of France vs. Communist
- San Francisco Protest Aagainst HUAC
- University Protest against the hearing that HUAC
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's plan to force the South Vietnam to take care of itself
- Draft Resistance
- People who actively fought into the arny
- Ho Chi Menh
- Communist leader of Vietnam
- Teach-In Aagainst the War in Vietnam
- Form of protest where students and teachers refuse to leave the classroom
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- A large scale group protesting the government
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- Dictator of South Vietnam who was killed by vietcom
- Guerilla Warfare
- Try of fighting where the combatants are hidden for a surprise attack