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35 Cards in this Set
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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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Resistance movement
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Domino theory
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You have a row of of dominoes set up. You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last on is certainty that it will go over very quickly
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Ngo Dinh Die,
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Former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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Members of a rebel force
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Robert s. McNamara
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Advised president Johnson that he would increase the U.S. military commitment to south Vietnam to prevent a communist victory
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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 U.S. military forces in Vietnam
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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 Trial
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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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Provided 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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Radical student group
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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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Brought down South Vietnam's government as the people who rallied behind their "liberators"
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William Westmoreland
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Commander of the U.S. 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 the slain President Kennedy
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Richard J. Daley
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Chicago mayor
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Richard Nixon
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Dominated the republican national convention in Miami beach, fl
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George Wallace
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Ran as a candidate of the newly found American independent party
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixon's key foreign policy adviser
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Vietnamization
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Involved turning over the fighting to the south Vietnamese
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Le Duc Tho
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Longtime revolutionary of north Vietnam
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Kent State shootings
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Shocked the nation
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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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Of South Dakota campaigned in the 1972 democratic presidential primaries as an anti war candidate
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Twenty-sixth amendment
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Had lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
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Le Ly Hayslip
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Was one survivor of the Vietnam war
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War powers act
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Reaffirms Congress's constitutional right to declare war
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Maya Ying Lin
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Designed Vietnam veterans memorial
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Vietnam veterans memorial
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In Washington, D.C.
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