Vietnam
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- San Francisco Potest against HUAC
- Protests against the hearings that who HUAC was holding
- War Power Act
- President can send troops into action abroad only by authorization,under attack,seiuos threat
- South Vietnam
- U.S.. aided part of vietnam
- Por Huron Statement
- Is the manifesto of the American student activist movement SDS
- Tet Offensive
- A North Vietnamese attack
- Dien Bien Phu
- Last battle between France and the Communists
- Domino Theory
- The fear that if one country fall to communist they all fall
- North Vietnam
- Communists controlled part of the countries
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- A big air battle during the Vietnam War
- Doves
- People who oppose war
- Geneva Accords
- World peace plan
- Over throw of Ngo Dinh Diem
- Dictator of South Vietnam who was kill vietcong
- Weather Underground
- Is a commercial weather service that provides real time weather inf.
- Teach-ins Against the war in Vietnam
- A form of protest were student and teacher refussed to leave the classroom
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- A large scale Group protesting the goverment
- Pentagon Papers
- Classified paper on the war
- Vietnamization
- Nixon's plan to force South Vietnam to take care of itself
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Us congress gives president Johnson the rigths to cause war at Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh
- Communist leader of North Vietnam
- Guerilla Warfare
- A type of fighting were the combatants are hidden for a susprise attack
- Napalm
- Incendiary material develop WWII
- General William Westmoreland
- Top US general on the Vietnam War
- Hawks
- People who want war
- Draft Resistance
- People who actively fought being force into the army
- Henry Kissinger
- He was the secretary of state during the Nixon Presidentcy
- Free Speech Movement
- Collect student who were figthing the restrictions againt freedom speech
- Incident in the Guilf of Tonkin
- Two US ship were fired