Vietnam
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- A world peace plain
- Geneva Accords
- is a method of non-violent protest, first employed against the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam.
- Teach ins Against the war in Vietnam
- known as North Vietnam, was proclaimed by Hồ Chí Minh in Hà Nội on September 2, 1945 with a declaration of independence
- North Veitnam
- was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968 and who served as US Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972.
- General William Westmoreland
- is a German-born American politician, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration.
- Henry Kissinger
- Secrete government documents published in 1971; revealed that the U.S government had misled Americans about the Vietnam War
- Pentagon papers
- is the commonly used name for the former Vietnamese state that existed from 1954 to 1976 in the portion of Vietnam that lies south of the 17th parallel
- South Vietnam
- Americans who supported the Vietnam War
- Hawks
- is a person who avoids ("dodges") or otherwise violates the conscription policies of the nation in which he or she is a citizen or resident,
- Draft Resistance
- was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French Union forces of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps,
- Dien Bien Phu
- Americans who opposed the Vietnam War
- Doves
- Legislation that reaffirmed congress's constitutional power to declare war; set a 60- day limit on the president's authority to commit U.S troops to serve in a foreign conflict
- War power Act
- Was the first President of South Vietnam
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese Army
- Vietnamization
- is the name given to any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline.
- Napalme
- known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a violent U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society which formed on the campus on the University of Michigan in the 1960s
- Weather Underground
- Was a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Prompted the first large-scale involvement of U.S. armed forces in Vietnam.
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
- Domino Theory
- was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
- Ho Chi Minh
- is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics
- Guerilla Warfare