U.s. 2 Chapter 30

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

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Vietminh

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An organization of vietnamese communists and other nationalist groups that between 1946 and 54 fought for vietnamese independence from the french.

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domino theory

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the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.

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Dien Bien Phu

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A battle in Northwestern Vietnam where the vietminh overran the french outpost.

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Geneva Accords

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a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into communist N. Vietnam and non-communist S.Vietnam until unification elections in 1956.

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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South Vietnam's president. Wasn't a good ruler and was eventually taken out by the CIA.

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Vietcong

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the south Vietnamese communists, who w/ North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of south Vietnam in the Vietnam war.

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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a network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in south Vietnam.

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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a resolution adopted by congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.

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Robert McNamara

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United States secretary of Defense during the vietnam war.

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Dean Rusk

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U.S. secretary of state during the vietnam war.

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William Westmoreland

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U.S. general, was in command of all US military operations in the Vietnam war.

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Napalm

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A gasoline based substance that U.S. planes dropped on Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose vietcong hideouts.

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Agent orange

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A leaf-killing chemical sprayed by U.S. planes in Vietnam to expose vietcong hideouts.

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Search-and-destroy mission-

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A u.s. military raid on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers w/ ties to the vietcong, but often resulting in the village's destruction and the displacement of it's inhabitants.

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Credibility gap

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public distrust of statements made by the government

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New left

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a youth-dominated political movement of the 60's, embodied in such organizations as Students for a Democratic Society and the Free Speech Movement

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Students for A Democratic Society

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An antiestablishment New Left group, founded in 1960, that called for greater individual freedom and responsibility.

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Free Speech Movement

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an antiestablishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the university of California and Berkley.

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Dove

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a person who opposed the Vietnam war and believed that the U.S. should withdraw from it.

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Hawk

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a person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war and believed that the U.S. should use increased military force to win the war.

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Tet Offensive

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a massive surprise attack by the vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968.

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Clark Clifford

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White house advisor/counsel. Democrat, was am advisor.

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Robert Kennedy

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Politician from MA, served as senator for NY from 1965 until his assassination in 1968.

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Eugene McCarthy

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Politician from Minnesota, served in the U.S. house of representatives, and the U.S. senate.

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Hubert Humphrey

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38th Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson.

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George Wallace

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Democrat who was the governor of Alabama.

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Vietnamization

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President Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement w/ Southern Vietnamese Forces.

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Silent majority

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A name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate, mainstream Americans who quietly supported his vietnam war policies

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Pentagon Papers

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A 7000 page document leaked to the press in 1971 by former defense dept. worker Daniel Ellsburg, revealing that the U.S. gov't had not been honest about it's intentions in the Vietnam war.

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Henry Kissinger

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served as national security advisor and later as secretary of state at the same time.

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Khmer Rouge

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A communist group that seized power in Cambodia in 1975.

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War Powers Act

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law enacted in 1973, limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting congress.