chapter 30 history
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- Ngo Dinh Dien
- south vietnam's strong anti-communist president
- ARVN
- the souther Vietnamese soldiers with whom US troops gought against communism and forces in the North during the Vietnam War.
- McCarthy
- Minnesota senator, ran against LBJ in 1964 primary as Anti-War democratic leader.
- New Left
- a youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s, embodied in such organization as Students for a Democratic Society and the Ree Speech Movement.
- search-and-destroy mission
- a US military raid on a South Vietnamese Village intended to root out villagers iwth ties to Vietcong by often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants
- silent majority
- a name given by pres. Nixon to the moderate. mainstream Americans hwo quietly supportred his Vietnam War Policies
- domino theory
- the idea that if a bation falls under communist control nearby nations will also fall under commun ist control
- My Lai
- a villige in northern vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilains, including wonmen and childeren, were inasscared by US troops in May 1968
- War Powers Act
- a law, enacted in 1973, limiting a presidents right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress, response to Gulf of Tonkin resolution after seeing it didnt work.
- Free Speech Movement
- an anti-establishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the University of California at Berkeley
- Naplam
- a gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts.
- Clark Clifford
- supportor of LBJ's Vietnam policy, chosen to fill the sec. of defense position after McNamara's resignation in 1968
- Hubert Humphrey
- LBJ's vice president and McCarthy's opposition in 1968 primary after LBJ stepped down. won nomination; not presidency.
- George Wllace
- democrate, ran on American Independent ticket, 3rd-paty candidate who helped Nixon gain presidency in 1968 election
- Tet offensive
- a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968.
- credibility gap
- a public distrust of statements made by the government. Created by mistatements, vets come home to expose truths of war
- Kent State University
- an Ohio university where National Guardsmen opened gire on studentsw protesting the Vietnam war on May 4, 1970, wounding nine and killing four.
- Pentagon Papers
- a 7000 page document leaded to the presss in 1971 by the former Defense Depatment worker Daniel Ellsburg-revealing that the US government had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam War.
- Vietminh
- an organization of vietnamese communisits and other nationalist groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independance from the French
- SDS
- an antiestablishement New Left group, founded in 1960, that called for greater individual freedom and responsibility.
- Ho Chi Minh
- vietnamese leader, leader of indochineses communist party
- Henry Kissinger
- National Security Advisor who worked with Nixon on the Bietnamization withdrawal plan; later sec. of state