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36 Cards in this Set
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Ho Chi Minh
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A world wanderer
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Vietminh
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League for the Independence of Vietnam
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Le Loi
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A Vietnamese military leader
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Domino theory
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Cold War belief that if one in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would fall too
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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A former communist
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Vietcong
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A rebel force
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Robert S. McNamara
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Secretary of Defense
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Gave the president authority to take "all necessary measures o repel any armed attack against forces of the US."
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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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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 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 villages
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doves
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People who opposed war
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Students for a Democratic Society
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A radical student group
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J. William Fullbright
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A Dove who was the senator of Arkansas
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Hawks
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People who supported the wars cause
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Tet Offensive
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North Vietnam expected this to bring down South Vietnam's government
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William Westmoreland
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The commander of the U.S. forces in Vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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Senator of Minnesota
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Senator of New York
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Richard J. Daley
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Chicago mayor
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Richard Nixon
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President of the U.S., republican nominee
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George Wallace
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Ran as candidate for newly formed 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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Involving 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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Revolutionary of North Vietnam
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Kent State Shootings
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National guard troop shot randomly into a group of students
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Pentagon Papers
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These documents 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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Had lowered the voting age from age from 12 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 by setting a sixty day limit on the presidential commitment of US troops to foreign conflicts
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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A memorial to honor those in the Vietnam war
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Maya Ying Lin
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Made the Vietnam memorial
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