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33 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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Led the Vietnamese for independence
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Vietminh
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League of Independence of Vietnam
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Domino theory
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The fall of free countries into communist ones.
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Ngo Ding Diem
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A former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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Members of the rebel force
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Robert S. McNamara
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increase the U.S. military commitment
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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
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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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Plans to drive the Vietcong out of their hideouts
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Pacification
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Move residents to secure places
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Doves
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People who opposed the war
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Hawks
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People's who supported the wars goals
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Students for a Democratic Society
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Pacifist group of radical students
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J. William Fulbright
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Senator of Arkansas
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TET offensive
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Northern Vietnam expected it to bring down the south Vietnamese 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 and former U.S. attorney general
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Richard J. Daley
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Ordered helmeted police to clear out the protesters
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Richard Nixon
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Dominated the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Fl.
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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 overt the fighting to the South Vietnamese while gradually pulling out U.S. troops
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Le Duc Tho
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Revolutionary that met with Nixon secretly
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Kent State shootings
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May 4, 1970 national
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Pentagon Papers
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Government documents that that government had frequently misled the American people about the course of the war.
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George mcGovern
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South Dakota campaigned for an anti war 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 Hayslip
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One survivor from Vietnam
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War powers act
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Reaffirms Congress's constitution right to declare war by setting a 60-day limit on the presidential commitment
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