Vietnam
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- War Powers Act
- a resolution of Congress that the President can send troops into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if American troops are already under attack or serious threat.
- Free Speech Movement
- fighting for the free speech
- Pentagon Papers
- classified information of the war
- Dien Bien Phu
- was the last battle of France vs the Comunist
- Vietnamization
- nixons plan to force south vietnam to take care of itself
- Weather Underground
- a radical leftist student group in the 1960s
- General William Westmoreland
- top US generul at the vietnam war
- Napalm
- is the name given to any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline.
- Teach-ins Against the War in Vietnam
- a form of protest where students and teachers refuse to leave the classroom
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- was a large scale group protesting the government
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- comunist fired on two US ships
- Draft Resistance
- people who fought the draft
- Ho Chi Minh
- comunist leader of
- Hawks
- people who want war
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- big air battle during the vietnam war
- San Francisco Protests against HUAC
- protests hearings that HUAC was holding
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- the dictator of south vietcong
- Domino Theory
- the fear that if one country falls all of the will
- North Vietnam
- comunist controlled part of the country
- Henry Kissinger
- scretary of state during the nixton presidentc
- Geneva Accords
- was a world peace plan
- Tet Offensive
- was a north vietnamese attack
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US congrest gives president Johnson the right to start the war in vietnam
- South Vietnam
- US aided part of vietnam
- Guerilla Warfare
- type of fighting where the combatants are hidden for a surpirse attack