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16 Cards in this Set
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Dien been phu |
Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. |
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Tet Offensive |
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. |
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
Johnson dispatched U.S planned against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. |
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War Power |
This U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war. |
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French Indochina |
A grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia |
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Silent Majority |
An Unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express there publicity. |
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Pentagon Papers |
secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam |
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Strategic Hamlet Program |
plan by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to combat the communist insurgency by pacifying the countryside and reducing the influence of the communists among the rural population. |
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"Search-and-Destroy" missions |
A military battle tactic that was crucial to the Vietnam War |
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Napalm |
An explosive that was used to blow up enemy bases |
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Viet Cong |
A name given to the National liberation front |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
The prime minister of state for Vietnam |
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Vietnamization |
A policy to end the US involvement in the Vietnam War |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
The Hồ Chí Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia |
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My Lai |
a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai |
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Agent Orange |
One of the defolionts used by the military |
