War In Vietnam

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Dominoe Theory

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The theory of letting communism spread is like dominoes toppling over

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Le Loi

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Vietnamese military leader that used guerrilla warfare to defeat the Chinese invaders

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Ho Chi Minh

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World wanderer and is a man of many names like Nguyen That Thanh

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Vietminh

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League for the Independence of Vietnam; group of Vietnamese nationalists organized in the 1940s by Ho Chi Minh to drive the Japanese out of Vietnam

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Former government official under the French, US hoped that his nationalist beliefs would make him an acceptable leader to the people of South Vietnam

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Vietcong

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National Liberation Front; communist guerrilla force that began fighting against Ngo Dinh Diem's government in South Vietnam in the 1950s

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Robert S. McNamara

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Secretary of defense that advised President Johnson he would have to increase the US military commitment to South Vietnam to prevent a Communist victory

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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(1964) Congressional measure that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to wage war in Vietnam

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Escalation

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President Lyndon B. Johnson's policy of building up US military forces in the Vietnam War

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Operation RolUS bombing campaign during the Vietnam War

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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Trail that the North Vietnimese used to smuggle supplies to the Vietcong

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Defoliants

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Chemicals that strip land of vegetation

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Search- and- Destroy missions

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Missions designed to find and destroy vc supplies

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Pacification

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US and South Vietnamese policy of moving villagers to refugee camps and then burning their villages

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Doves

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Americans who opposed the Vietnam War

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Hawks

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Americans who supported the Vietnam War

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Students for a Democratic Society

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(SDS) Student group that actively protested the Vietnam War

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J. William Fulbright

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Senator of Arkansas; dove, head of the Foreign Relations Committee, sharply criticized the Johnson administration's policies as too extreme

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Tet Offensive

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(1968) Attack by North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War; came during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year; demonstrated that the North Vietnamese were still militarily strong

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William Westmoreland

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Commander of US forces in Vietnam, described the offensive as a Vietcong defeat

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Eugene McCarthy

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Eugene McCarSenator of Minnesota, a critic of the war, challenged Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination

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Robert E. Kennedy

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Robert E. Kennedy
Senator of New York was the brother of the slain president Kennedy and a former US attorney general, contender for the Democratic nomination

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Richard J. Daley

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Richard J.Chicago mayor ordered helmeted police to clear out the protestors

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Richard Nixon

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Dominated the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, he won the nomination easily

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George Wallace

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Former Alabama governor ran as a candidate of the newly formed American Independent Party

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Henry Kissinger

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He was Nixon's key foreign policy adviser

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Vietnamization

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Policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese Army

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Le Duc Tho

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Met secretly with Henry Kissinger in Paris, longtime revolutionary of North Vietnam

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Kent State Shootings

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(1970) Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four people

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Pentagon papers

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Secret government documents published in 1971; revealed that the US government had misled Americans about the Vietnam War

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George McGovern

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Senator of South Dakota campaigned in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries as an antiwar candidate

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Twenty- sixth Amendment

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(1971) Constitutional Amendment that lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18

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Le Ly Hayslip

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Survivor of the Vietnam War, imprisoned by the South Vietnamese government by the age of 14, tortured and sentenced to death but was able to escape and return home

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War Powers Act

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(1973) Legislation that reaffirmed Congress's constitutional power to declare war; set a 69 day limit on the presidential commitment of US troops to foreign conflicts

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Memorial dedicated in Washington D. C in 1982 to honor those people who died in or are missing from the Vietnam War

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Maya Ying Lin

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Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D. C, architecture student at Yale University when her design was chosen