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36 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Military leader who employed gurrilla warfa tacticts to drive back the Chineese
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Ho Chi Minh
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He who enlightens
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Vietnman
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a small country below china.
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Domino Theory
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One country falls, another fallows etc etc
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Robert S. McNamara
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advised president johnson that he would hve to ibcreas the US militarru commitment to south vietnam
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Tokin Gulf Reaolution
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this gave the president authority ot take all neccesssary measures to repel an armed attack against the US forces
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escalation
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build up of military forces
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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a bombing campaign againts military targets in the north
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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network of jungle paths
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Search and destroy missions,
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they attempted to drive e viecong from their hideouts
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pacification
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security in rural areas
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for democratic society SDS
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pacifists
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doves
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doves opposed war
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hawks
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for war
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J.William Fullbright
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head of forieng relationscommitte
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Tet Offensive
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to bring down south vietnoms leaders
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william westmoreland
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he commander of the us forces in vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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challenged Johnson for the democratic positoion
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Brother of slain president, ran assasinated
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Richard J delay
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ordered helmeted police to clear out the protestors
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Richard Nixon
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dominated the republican national convntion in Miami Beach
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George Wallace
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ran as candidate of the newly formed american independant party
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Henry Kissinfer
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born in 19 in Fürth worked with parents to escape the Nazis.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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a former communist , S vietnam
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Defoliants
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chemicals that strip the land of vegetation
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Vietnamization
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involved turnong over the fighting to the south vietnamese
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Le duc Tho
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longtime revolutionaly met with henry kissinger
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Kwnt state shootings
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killed 2 protesting students and wounded 9 others
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pentagon papers
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revealed that the govt withholding abd frequently misled e americanseople abouut eh corse of the war
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George McGovern
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senator form south dakota, campaigned in the 1972 democratic primaries as a antowar candidate
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twenty sixth amendment
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lowered voting age fron 21-18
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Le Ly Hayslip
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survivor from vietnam
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War powes act
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reaffirms congresses constitutional right to declare war
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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located in d.c
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May Ying Lin
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desigend e veitnam memorial in D.C
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Vietcong
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rebel forces pocated in veitnam , communists
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