Vietnam
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- Hawks
- People who want war
- Draft Resistance
- people who actively fought being force into the army
- Doves
- People who oppose war
- Domino Theory
- The fear that if one country fall to communist they all fall
- Dien Bien Phu
- Last Battle
- Teach-ins Against the War in Vietnam
- A form of protests were students and teachers refussed to leave the classroom
- General William Westmoreland
- Top US general on the Vietnam war
- Guerilla Warfare
- A type of fighting were the combatants are hidden for a surprise attack
- South Vietnam
- US aided part of Vietnam
- Pentagon Papers
- Classified paper on the war (not open to the public)
- Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
- Two US ship were fired
- Tet Offensive
- A north Vietnamese attack
- Free Speech Movement
- Collect student who were fighting the restriction against freedom speech
- War Power Act
- president can send troops into action abroad only by authorization,under attack,seriuos threat
- Port Huron Statement
- Is the manifesto of the American student activist movement SDS
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- A big air battle during the Vietnam War
- Weather Underground
- Is a commercial weather service that provides real time weather inf.
- Henry Kissinger
- He was the secretary of state during the Nixon Presidency
- Ho Chi Minh
- Communist leader of north Vietnam
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnamies ditactor assinated by the communist
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's plan to force South Vietnam to take care of itself
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- US congress gives president Johnson the rights to cause war at Vietnam
- SDS
- A large scale protesting the gov.
- Napalm
- Incendiary material develop during WWIIh
- San Francisco Protests against HUAC
- Protests against the hearing that HUAC was holding
- Geneva Accords
- Word peace plan
- North Vietnam
- Communists controlled part of Vietnam