Vietnam
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- Operation Rolling Thunder
- A big air battle during the Vietnam War
- Free speech movement
- Led by college students fighting the restriction of free speech
- Ho Chin Minh
- Communist leader of North Vietnam
- Henry Kissinger
- The secretary of state the nixon presidency
- Pentagon Papers
- Were classified information on the War
- Domino Theory
- The fear that if one country falls to Communists, they will all fall to Communists
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- Dictator of south vietnam who was killed by the vietcong
- Geneva Accords
- World peace plan
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's plan to force south vietnam to take care of itself
- San Francisco Protests against HUAC
- Protest against the hearings that HUAC was holding
- Hawks
- People who want war
- Guerilla Warfare
- A type of fighting where the combatants are hidden for a surprise attack
- North Vietnam
- Communists controlled part of the country
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- A large scale group protesting the goverment
- Doves
- People who oppose war
- General William Westmoreland
- Top US general in the vietnam war
- Dien Bien Phu
- The last battle of France vs. the Communists
- South Vietnam
- US aided part of vietnam
- Tet Offensive
- A north vietnamese attack
- Draft Resistance
- People who actively fought the draft
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US congress gives president Jonhson the right to start the war in vietnam
- Teach-ins Against the War in Vietnam
- A form of protest where students and teachers refused to leave a classroom
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- Communists fired on two US ships