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20 Cards in this Set
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jellied gasoline that explodes on contact |
Napalm |
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solider whose fate was undetermined |
MIA |
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fear that a communist Vietnam would lead to other South Asian Communist Governments |
Domino theory |
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strategy of defeating enemy forces by slowly wearing them down |
War of Attrition |
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chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs |
Agent Orange |
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renamed Ho Chi Minh City after reunification |
Saigon |
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temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel |
Geneva Accords |
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massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S troops |
My Lai |
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forces made up the North and South Vietnamese, but supplied by the North Vietnam |
Vietcong |
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improving relations with the Soviet Union and China to persuade them to cut back their aid to North Vietnam |
Linkage |
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peace negotiator for the North Vietnamese |
Le Duc Tho |
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criticized America's involvement in the Vietnam War for the disproportionate number of African American deaths |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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former defense department worker who leaked the Pentagon papers to the New York Times |
Daniel Ellsberg |
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Communist leader who organized a guerrilla army to fight to reunify Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
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South Vietnam's president at the end of the Vietnam War |
Nguyen Van Thieu |
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Democratic candidate assassinated in a California hotel |
Robert Kennedy |
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pro-Western leader of South Vietnam early in the war who was overthrown in a coup and executed |
Ngo Dinh Diem |
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outspoken segregationist who won over 13 percent of the popular vote as an independent candidate in the 1968 election |
George Wallace |
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American Commander in the South Vietnam |
William Westmorelamd |
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Nixon's special assistant for nation security affairs |
Henry Kissinger |
