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36 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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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, He Who Enlightens
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Vietminh
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A resistance movement called thr League for the Independence of Vietnam
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Domino theory
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You set up a row of dominoes and you knock one over, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that will go over very quickly
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Ngo Dihn Diem
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A former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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Vietnamese communists
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Robert S. McNamara
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Advised President Johnson that he would have to increase the US 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 US
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Escalation
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Buildup of military forces în vietnam
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OperationRolling 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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Attempts to drive vietcong from their hideouts, ground patrols first located the enemy and then called in air support to kill them
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Pacification
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Moved 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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Radical student groups
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J. William Fulbright
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Dove Senator of Arkansas, head of the Foreign Relations Committee
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Tet Offensive
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Expected to bring down South Vietnam's government as the people rallied behind their liberators
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William Westmoreland
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General, commander of US forces in Vietnam, described the offensive as a Vietcong defeat
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Eugene McCarthy
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Senator of Minnesota that challenged Johnson for the Democratic nomination
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Robert Kennedy
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Brother of JFK
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Richard J. Daley
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Chicago mayor, ordered helmeted police to clear out the protestors
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Richard Nixon
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Dominated the Republican Convention in florida
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George Wallace
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Former Alabama governor ran as candidate for the new 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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Turning over fighting to the South Vietnamese while gradually pulling out US troops
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Le Duc Tho
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Met with Henry Kissinger in Paris, secretly
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Kent State Shootings
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Killed four and injured nine others, national guard shot randomly into a large group of students
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Pentagon Papers
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Documents revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the coarse of the war
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George McGovern
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Senator of South Dakota campaigned Democratic, as an antiwar candidate
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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 Hayslipp
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One of the survivors 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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