Vietnam War
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- Agent Orange
- a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
- Domino Theory
- A belief that if one nation in the Southeast Asia fell to communism that thre rest of Southeast Asia would too, just like dominos
- War Powers Act
- Passed by congrss in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overses to a sixty day period in peactime (which can be extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawl) Unless congress explicity gives its approval for a longr period
- Credibility Gap
- After The Media Found Out About The Tet Offensive Doubts In The War Occured
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnam non-Communist leader
- Ho Chi Minh
- 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable
- Pentagon Papers
- A 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War.
- Vietnamization
- policy by Nixon about gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese Army
- Vietcong
- the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam, also know as the National Liberation Front
- Hawks
- Americans that supported the Vietnam War
- Vietminh
- Vietnamese group of nationalist in the 1940s to drive the Japanese out of the war
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- allowed the president to take all necassay measures to repel armed attack or prevent further aggression
- Students for Democratic Society
- student that protested the Vietnam war
- Ho Chih Minh Trail
- Network of Jungle paths from North Vietnam through Laos and cambodia and into South Vietnam, served as the major supply route of the vietcong.
- Guerilla War
- guerilla means small war; war tactics
- Tet Offensive
- 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment
- Doves
- Americans that opposed the Vietnam War
- Henry Kissinger
- United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
- Dien Bien Phu
- French Military base in Vietnam, Viet Minh overtook result; US steps in, Geneva, Ho Chi Minh withdraws troops N of 17th parallel
- 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.
- General Westmoreland
- the commander of U.S forces in vietnam, described the offensive as a Vietcong defeat.