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17 Cards in this Set
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Vietcong
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communist guerrillas in the south
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Guerrilla warfare
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non-government individual rebel fighting
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Khmer Rouge
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communist party in Cambodia
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Vietminh
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Communist party and military in North Vietnam
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The Silent Majority
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Nixon appealed to them to put down the anti-war movement
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Diem
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leader of south Vietnam until 1963
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My Lai
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south vietnamese village destroyed by americans
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Thieu
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Leader in the South after 1967
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Gen. Westmoreland
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US military commander in Vietnam
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Henry Kissenger
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Nixon's NSA and Secretary of State
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George Wallace
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segregationist pres candidate in 68
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Robery McNamara
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JFK and LBJs secretary of defense
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Kennedy
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military advisors and overthrow of Diem
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Truman
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refused to recognize independence of Vietnam from France after WWII
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Nixon
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Vietnamization and widening the war in Cambodia and Laos
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Eisenhower
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refused to sign the geneva accords and gave aid and advisors to south vietnam
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Johnson
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Operation Rolling thunder and pacification
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