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24 Cards in this Set
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Le Lio
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Used guerrilla warfare to defeat the Chinese invaders
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Ho Chi Minh
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A world wanderer and man of many names
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Vietminh
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Organized a resistance movement called the league for the independence of Vietnam
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Domino theory
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Knock the first one over adn the rest fall
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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A former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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For Vietnemese communists
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Robert S. McNamara
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Had advised President Johnson that he would have to increase the U.S. military
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly
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Escalation
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Buildup
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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A bombing campaign against military targets in the North
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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A network of jungle paths
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Defoliatns
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Chemicals that strip the land of vegetation
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Search and Destroy Missions
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That attempted to drive the Vietcong from their hideouts
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Pacification
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To provide security in rural areas
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Doves
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People who opposed the war
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Hawks
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People who supported the war's goals
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Students for a Democratic Society
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The pacifist group included Women Strike for Peace and that National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
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J. William Fulbright
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Of Arkansas
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Tet Offensive
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Bring down South Vietnams government as the people rallied behind their "liberators"
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WIlliam Westmoreland
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The commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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A critic of the war
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Was the brother of the slain president Kennedy and a former U.S. attorney general
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Richard J. Daley
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Ordered helmeted police to clear out protestors
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Richard Nixon
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Dominated the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida
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