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52 Cards in this Set
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General Westmoreland
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MACV commander from 1964-1968; search and destroy; served as US Army Chief of Staff from 1968-1972; advocate of the war of attrition; instrumental in raising the level of US forces in Vietnam
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Henry Kissinger
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decisions focused on keeping Nixon in power, not on benefiting the US; implemented Vietnamization; National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in Nixon administration; increase air power; seeks aid from China and USSR
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General Abrams
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President Nixon; architect of Vietnamization; war of attrition; expansion of airwar; implemented the Nixon Doctrine (Vietnamization)
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Melvin Laird
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Secretary of Defense under Nixon (1961-1968); opposed Cambodian invasion; resigned after sieze fire in 1973; not corrupt; coined the term Vietnamization
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Robert McNamara
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Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson; war of attrition; provde a weapon for every human problem; blamed domino theory; over confident; created plan for Rolling Thunder; air war
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Hamburger Hill
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battle on border of Laos and South Vietnam; gather info about enemy; May 1969; Dong Ap Bia; 70 US troops died, pressure to reduce US deaths and increase VC deaths; covered by media; raised many questions
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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Vice President; head of the airforce; came under power after Diem; Air Vice Marshal; focused on eliminating corruption; transported drugs; opium trade
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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corrupt; highly centralized; President; advocated "4 No's"; made it difficult to have peace talks; uncooperative; didn't feel the need to honor the seize fire agreements; in power from 1967-1975
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Norodom Sihanouk
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Couldn't stop the North Vietnamese from using Cambodia as a passageway; prince of Cambodia; supported US bombing; overthrown by Lon Nol
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Khe Sanh
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US focused troops here; reverse damage done at Dien Bien Phu; Westmoreland ignored the fact that Khe Sanh was not the number one priority; therefore, US wasn't prepared for Tet
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Hamburger Hill
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battle on border of Laos and South Vietnam; gather info about enemy; May 1969; Dong Ap Bia; 70 US troops died, pressure to reduce US deaths and increase VC deaths; covered by media; raised many questions
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Hamburger Hill
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battle on border of Laos and South Vietnam; gather info about enemy; May 1969; Dong Ap Bia; 70 US troops died, pressure to reduce US deaths and increase VC deaths; covered by media; raised many questions
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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Vice President; head of the airforce; came under power after Diem; Air Vice Marshal; focused on eliminating corruption; transported drugs; opium trade
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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corrupt; highly centralized; President; advocated "4 No's"; made it difficult to have peace talks; uncooperative; didn't feel the need to honor the seize fire agreements; in power from 1967-1975
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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Vice President; head of the airforce; came under power after Diem; Air Vice Marshal; focused on eliminating corruption; transported drugs; opium trade
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Norodom Sihanouk
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Couldn't stop the North Vietnamese from using Cambodia as a passageway; prince of Cambodia; supported US bombing; overthrown by Lon Nol
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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corrupt; highly centralized; President; advocated "4 No's"; made it difficult to have peace talks; uncooperative; didn't feel the need to honor the seize fire agreements; in power from 1967-1975
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Khe Sanh
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US focused troops here; reverse damage done at Dien Bien Phu; Westmoreland ignored the fact that Khe Sanh was not the number one priority; therefore, US wasn't prepared for Tet
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Norodom Sihanouk
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Couldn't stop the North Vietnamese from using Cambodia as a passageway; prince of Cambodia; supported US bombing; overthrown by Lon Nol
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Khe Sanh
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US focused troops here; reverse damage done at Dien Bien Phu; Westmoreland ignored the fact that Khe Sanh was not the number one priority; therefore, US wasn't prepared for Tet
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Clark Clifford
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Domono effect was not an issue; told Johnson to refuse Westmoreland's request for more troops; Secretary of Defense under Johnson in 1968
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Lt. Calley
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Only one convicted for My Lai; March 1968 - led the My Lai Massacre
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Robert Kerrey
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Responsible for the atrocities at Thanh Phong; many conflicting stories
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Pathet Lao
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Communist party of Laos; occupied the Plain of Jars; US fought heavily
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Plain of Jars
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most bombed place in Laos; secret war; lost many refugess
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Royal Laotian Army
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fought with US during secret war in Laos
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Watergate
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1972-1974; Nixon administration responsible for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee; tapped phone lines; Nixon was impeached and resigned
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Nguyen Ngoc Loan
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ARVN general; executed Nguyen Van Lem in front of NBC camera man
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Lon Nol
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Overthrew Sihanouk; fought Khmer Rouge; Cambodian politician; tried to get the Vietnamese out of Cambodia; allowed the US to continue bombing secretly
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Khmer Issarak
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nationalists; group broke eventually; one sector became Communist; formed in teh 1950s in opposition to French colonialism
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Khieu Samphan
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Cambodian official; leader of the Khmer Rouge movement; leader of Cambodian government after the overthrow of Sihanouk
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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General of PAVN
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Pol Pot
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ruler of the Khmer Rouge and Prime Minister of Cambodia; 1976-1979; attempted to purify the country in attempts to step closer to Communism; killed up to 3 million Cambodians through genocide; torture
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Hen Samrin
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leader after Pol Pot; installed by the Vietnamese in 1979
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Van Tien Dung
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head of the Vietnamese Communist party; replaced Vo Nguyen Giap in 1975 as VPA Commander (Vietnam People's Army)
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Le Duc Tho
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dealt with Kissinger during the Paris Peace Accords; awarded the Nobel Prize, but refused to accept it cuz the country was not at peace yet
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War Powers Act
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1973; limits the power of the President of the US to wage war without the approval of Congress; due to the fact that many times during the Vietnam War, the US found itself fighting undeclared wars
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Pham Van Dong
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associate of Ho Chi Minh; prime minister of North Vietnam from 1955-1976; tried to keep neutral position; kept him in power for so long; Ho's greatest follower; ally with China
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Le Duan
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Vietnamese Communist leader; took Ho's place after his death in 1969
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Tran Huu Thanh
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1973-1975; Catholic priest that united with Buddhists
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VVAW
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Vietnam Veterans against the War
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Daniel Ellsberg
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1971/ produced the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times druing June of 1971; awakened the American people to how much they had been deceived by their own government about the war (war would not be won; many unnecessary lives would be lost)
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COSVN
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Central Office for South Vietnam; North Vietnamese headquarters in command of the Communist efforts in South Vietnam; difficult to locate; always moving; perhaps even nonexistent
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Kent State
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May 4, 1970; brought the war home for Americans; increased violence at home and on the battlefields; iconic image of the antiwar movement; context: secret war in Cambodia was exposed; 4 students killed by the Ohio National Guard; led to student strike across the nation (8 million students)
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Paris Peace Accords
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1973; supposed to end the Vietnam War; signed by governments from the US, North Vietnam and South Vietnam; led to the end of US involvement in Vietnam, but failed to end the war
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Seymour Hersh
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exposed the My Lai Massacre as well as the attempts of the government to cover it up; 1969; reduced support for the Vietnam War in the US; fueled antiwar movement
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Hue
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former modern capital of Vietnam; near the border between North and South Vietnam; badly damaged during the Tet Offensive
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CORDS
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Civil Operations, Revolutionary Development Support program
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Vang Pao
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American allied Hmong military leader; opposed Communisdt government of Laos; part of the secret army
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War Boards
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fail war boards, get drafted; targeted college students who failed; pre-1968
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Cointelpro
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Counter Intelligence Program; investigated disrupted dissident political organizations within the US
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Christmas Bombings
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1972; bombing of North Vietnam that took place over North Vietnam; in response to Hanoi balking at peace talks
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