vietnam war
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- Hawks and Doves
- Hawks are people who supported the war's goal. and Doves were people who opposed the war.
- general westmoreland
- the commander of U.S forces in vietnam, described the offensive as a Vietcong defeat.
- guerilla war
- ppl atakking and running away; sabatage
- kent state shooting
- incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at kent state university in ohio, killing 4 people.
- henry kissinger
- The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s).
- students for democratic
- students group that actively protested the vietnam war.
- war power act
- congress constitutional power to declare war set a 60 day limit on the presidents authority to commit u.s. troops to serve in a foreign conflict.
- credibility gap
- as the gap between official government reports and media accounts grew wide.
- vietcong
- national liberation fronnt; communist guerrilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dihn Diems government in south vietnam in the 1950s.
- Dien Bien Phu
- diem's was waging a brutal campaign to control the buddhists.
- society
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
- gulf on tonkin resolution
- gave the president the authority to take all neccesary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States.
- tet offensive
- attack by north vietnamese and vietcong troops against south vietnam during the vietnam war; came during tet, the vietnamese new year, demostrated that the north vietnamese were still military strong.
- vietnamization
- President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
- vietminh
- league for the independence of vietnam, group os vietnamese nationalist organized in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh to drive the japanese out of vietnam.
- Domino theory
- cold war era belief that if one nation in Southesat Asia fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall.
- agent orange
- is believing to have contaminated many americans and vietnamese causing serious health problems
- Ho chi minh trail
- network of jungle paths from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia and into South Vietnam served as the major supply route of the Vietcong.
- pentagon papers
- secret governments documents published in 1971, revealed that the us government had misled Americans about the Vietnam war.
- ho chi minh
- commited to the ideals of communism.
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Vietnamese leader gained controll of S. Vietnam- refused to hold elections to keep from communism