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36 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Used guerrilla warfare
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Ho Chi Minh
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Led the fight for Vietnamese independence
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Vietminh
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Another name for Vietnam
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Domino theory
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Knock over the first one and the rest will follow
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Ngo dinh diem
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Former government official under french
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Vietcong
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Vietnam rebels (communists)
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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 president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against US
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Escalation
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Buildup of US military in Vietnam
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Operation rolling thunder
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Bombing campaign
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Ho Chi Minh trail
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Network of jungle paths
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Defoliants
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Chemicals to strip the vegetation
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Search and destroy missions
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Drive Vietcong from their hideouts
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Pacification
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Moving citizens and burning cities
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Hawks
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Supported war
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Doves
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Opposed war
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SDS
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Students for a democratic society
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J. William Fullbright
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Head of foreign relations
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TET offensive
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North Vietnam struck the south and US troops
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William Westmoreland
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Commander of US forces in Vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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Johnson's oppenent
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Robert F. Kennedy
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JFKs brother
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Richard J. Daley
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Chicago mayor
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Richard Nixon
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Republican president candidate
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George Wallace
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American independent party candidate
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Henry Kissinger
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Foreign policy advisor
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Vietnamization
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turning over fighting to south Vietnamese
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Le Duc Tho
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North Vietnam revolutionary
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Kent State shootings
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National guard shot at a group of protesting students. Killed four injured nine others.
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Pentagon papers
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Secret government documents relating to the war.
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George McGovern
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1972 democratic primary 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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Vietnamese refugee who survived the war
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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 DC
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Maya Ying Lin
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Designed Vietnam veterans memorial
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