vietnam war
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- ngo dinh diem
- Vietnamese leader gained controll of S. Vietnam- refused to hold elections to keep from communism
- ho chi minh
- Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
- henry kissinger
- The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s).
- credibility gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- students for democratic society
- radical student groups attracted a broad range of ppl
- vietcong
- South Vietnam Communists
- vietminh
- Vietnamese Communist groups that banded together to form a slarger and stronger party
- dien bien phu
- In 1954, Vietminh rebels besieged a French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, deep in the interior of northern Vietnam. In May, after the United States refused to intervene, Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists.
- pentagon papers
- is the popular term for 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.
- general westmoreland
- the commander of u.s. forces in Vietnam
- guerilla war
- guerilla means small war; war tactics
- agent orange
- a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas
- 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.
- domino theory
- 1954; Eisenhower warned that if Vietnam became communist, all of Asia woudl follow; caused the foration of the SouthEastern Asia Treaty Organization patterned on NATO and refused to sign the Geneva Peace Accords
- hawks
- americans who supported the vietnam war.
- tet offensive
- surprise attacks on cities all over South Vietnam
- vietnamization
- policy of equipping and training of the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves
- ho chi minh trail
- A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
- gulf of tonkin resolution
- 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.
- doves
- want peace in the war
- war powers act
- Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort