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26 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Vietnamese military leader used guerrilla warfare agaist the chineses invaders in the 1400
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Ho Chi Minh
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World wanderer and man of many names
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Vietminh
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A resistance movement
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Domino Theory
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A theory hat nice you start losing you will keep losing
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Former government official under the French
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Vietcong
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Rebel forces of the Vietnamese
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Robert S. McNamara
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Secretary of defense had advised president Johnson
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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 the United States
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Escalation
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Or buildup of U.S. military forces in Vietnam
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Operating 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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Attempted to drive the Vietcong from their hideouts
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Pacification
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Security teams
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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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Students for a Democratic Society
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A group that attracted a broad range of people
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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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An attack during the Vietnamese new year
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William Westmoreland
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Commander of the 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 John F. Kennedy
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Richard J. Daley
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Ordered helmeted police to control the crowd
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George Wallace
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Alabama governer
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixons key foreign policy adviser
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Vietnamization
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Which involved turning over the fighting to the south Vietnamese while gradually pulling out US troops
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