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36 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Used Guerrilla warfare tactics to defeat the Chinese
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Ho Chi Minh
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Led the Vietnamese fight 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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If one nation fell to communism, the rest would fall suit
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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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Vietnamese communists
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Robert MacNamera
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1963 secretary of defense
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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 the 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 mission
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Missions where Vietcong were driven from hiding and then destroyed
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Pacification
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Provided security in rural areas in Vietnam
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Doves
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People opposed to the war
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Hawks
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People that supported the war goals
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Students for a Democratic Society
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A radical student group
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J. William Fulbright
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A dove
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TET Offensive
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Guerrilla sneak attack
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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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Criticized the war
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Brother of JFK
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Richard J. Daley
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Mayor of Chicago
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Richard Nixon
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He became president
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George Wallace
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Former Alabama governor
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixon's key foreign policy manager
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Vietnamization
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Involved turning the war over to the south Vietnamese while U.S troops pulled out
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Le Duc Tho
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A northern Vietnamese revolutionary
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Kent State Shootings
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National Guard soldiers shoot 4 kids
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Pentagon Papers
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Revealed the government had misled the American people about the course of the war
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George McGovern
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Campaigned as an anti war candidate
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Twenty-Sixth Amendment
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Lowered voting age from 21 to 18
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Le Ly Hayslip
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Survivor of the Vietnam war
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War Powers Act
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Reaffirms Congress's powers to declare war
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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A memorial in Washington D.C
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Maya Ying Lin
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Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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