The Vietnam War

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Ho Chi Minh

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leader of the Vietnamese communist

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Vietminh

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League of Independence for Vietnam

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domino theory

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fear that if one nation fell to Communism, all would fall

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Dien Bien Phu

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French defeated at this site

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Geneva Accords

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divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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South Vietnam's president

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Viet Cong

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Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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supply route for North Vietnamese in Cambodia

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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gave the President nearly complete control over the military actions in Vietnam

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Robert McNamara

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Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War

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Dean Rusk

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Secretary of State during Vietnam War

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General William Westmoreland

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American commander of forces in Vietnam

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam

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South Vietnamese Army

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napalm

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gasoline based bomb

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Agent Orange

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leaf killing toxic chemical

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search and destroy missions

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uprooting civilians with suspected ties to the Vietcong, killing livestock, and burning villages

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credibility gap

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gap between what Johnson administration reported and what was really happening

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draft

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Selective Service System

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New Left

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growing youth movement

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Students for a Democratic Society(SDS)

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claimed that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America

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Free Speech movement

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grew out of clashes between college administrations and students

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dove

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opposed the war and U.S. should withdraw

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hawks

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U.S. should unleash its full military force against North Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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large scale Vietcong attack on towns and cities during Tet New Year celebration

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Clark Clifford

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Secretary of Defense in 1968

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Robert Kennedy

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1968 presidential candidate killed by an assassin's bullet

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George Wallace

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3rd party candidate for president in 1968

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Eugene McCarthy

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1968 candidate who promised to end the war

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Hubert Humphrey

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1968 Democratic candidate

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Richard Nixon

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Republican candidate for president in 1968, eventual winner

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Henry Kissinger

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national security advisor who advised Nixon to replace our troops with South Vietnamese troops- Vietnamization

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Vietnamizaton

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replace our troops with South Vietnamese troops

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Silent majority

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moderate, mainstream Americans who supported the war

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My Lai

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massacre of innocent civilians

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Kent State University

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National guard troops fired on student protesters

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Pentagon Papers

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revealed lies about the governments role in Vietnam

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War Powers Act

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set rules for president and how they could engage the enemy