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35 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Vietnamese military leader
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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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League for the Independence of Vietnam
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Domino Theory
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"You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that it will go over very quickly."
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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members of the National Liberation Front
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Robert S. McNamara
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Secretary of Defense in 1963
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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gave the president authority to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States."
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Escalation
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buildup of US military forces in vietnam
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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bombing campaign against military targets in the North
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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network of jungle paths
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Defoliants
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chemicals that strip the land of vegetation
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Search-And-Destroy Missions
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attempted to drive the Vietcong from their hideouts
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Pacification
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when security forces were not enough they moved the residents to secure locations and then burned the villages
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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 movement that attracted a broad range of people for the Antiwar Movement
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J. William Fulbright
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head of the Foreign Relations Committee
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Tet Offensive
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will bring down South Vietnam's government
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William Westmoreland
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commander of US forces in Vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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critic of the war
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Robert F. Kennedy
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brother of JFK and former US attorney general
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Richard J. Daley
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the mayor of Chicago
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George Wallace
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ran as a candidate of the newly formed American Independent Party
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixon's foreign-policy adviser
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Vietnamization
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involved turning over the fighting to the south vietnamese while gradually pulling out US troops
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Le Duc Tho
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Henry Kissinger met secretly in Paris
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Kent State shootings
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shooting at Kent State
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Pentagon Papers
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documents that revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war
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George McGovern
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Senator of South Dakota
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Twenty-sixth Amendment
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lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
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Le Ly Hayslip
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a survivor of the Vietnam War
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War Powers Act
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reaffirms Congress's constitutional right to declare war by setting a 60-day limit on the presidential commitment of US troops to foreign conflicts
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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an attempt to heal divisions
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Maya Ying Lin
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designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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