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35 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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When the Japanese withdraw from Indochina after surrendering to the Allied powers in August 1945, the vietminh declared independence
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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 certainly that will go over very quickly
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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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Members of this rebel force
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Le loi
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A vietamese military leader
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Robert S. McNamare
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Secretary of Defense
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Tonkin gulf resolution
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Both houses of congress passed it
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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 target 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 the Vietcong from their hideouts
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Pacification
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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
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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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"Liberators"
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William westmoreland
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Commander of 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 and former U.S. attorney general
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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
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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 key 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 U.S troops.
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Le duc tho
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Longtime revolutionary
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Kent State shooting
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Killed 4 and injured 9
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Pentagon papers
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Revealed that the government had frequently misled
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George McGovern
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Antiwar canidate
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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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Survivor of Vietnam
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War Powers Act
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Reaffirms Congress's constitutional right to declare war
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Vietnam veterans memorial
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In Washington
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Maya ying lin
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