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William Westmoreland
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Who: American General
What: commanded American military operations Where: in Vietnam war When: (peak)1964-1968 |
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John F. Kennedy
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Who: a president during Vietnam
What: used limited military action in Vietnam & provided aid to French, sent military advisers, sanctioned coup of Ngo Dinh Diem. Assassinated- alleged conspiracy. When: elected 1960, assassinated 1963 |
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LBJ
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Who: president 1963-69
What: increased troops in Vietnam, believed in domino theory & containment, GTR, war on poverty, popularity dropped greatly, eventually sought peace settlement, resigned. |
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Richard Nixon
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Who: president 1969-74
What: proposed nixon doctrine & vietnamization, praised for delivering peace, secretly bombed cambodia because of supposed NLF hq, and later Laos-->caused protests & Kennt State, impeachment trial but dropped. |
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Gerald Ford
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Who: President 1974-77
What: ended involvement in Vietnam |
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Jimmy Carter
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Who: President 1977-81
What: pardoned draft resistors |
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Daniel Ellsberg
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Who: former military analyst
What: photographed & released secret pentagon papers Why: saw deceit and turned against war |
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Nguyen Cao-Ky
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Who: was asked to become president of south Vietnam-->short lived presidency
What: ends up being couped |
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Le Duc Tho
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What: helped found Indochinese communist party.
When: 1930 What: later helped lead Viet Minh against French. |
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Saigon
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Who: Capitol of south Vietnam
What: marked end of war, fall preceded by evacuation of almost all US civilians & military & s.Vietnamese When: April 30th 1975 |
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POW
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prisoner of war
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Maddox
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What: US military ship attacked by n.Vietnamese torpedo boats
Where: Gulf of Tonkin When: Aug 2-4 1964 *gave LBJ reason to go deeper into Vietnam |
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Chicago Convention
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What: Democratic Convention with tons of protesters-->division between counter-culture and establishment
Where: Chicago When: 1968 |
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Tet Offensive
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What: three-phase military campaign conducted by NLF & PAVN
Where: 100 towns/cities When: January 30th 1968 Why: to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow. |
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Domino Theory
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Theory that if one country fell under communist rule, surrounding countries would as well
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Lottery
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new form of the draft system based on date of birth
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Search and destroy
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What: Military strategy
The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory on special missions to target enemy forces and withdraw immediately afterwards, a strategy that was thought to be ideally suited for counter-guerrilla / jungle warfare. |
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Guerrilla warfare
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a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes, raids, etc.) to combat a larger and less mobile formal army
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SVN
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South Vietnam
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Paris Peace Accords 1973
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What: ended direct us military involvement
When: 1973 Why: to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam Conflict. |
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In Retrospect
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book by Robert McNamara
was supposed to be an apology but instead was 11 lessons learned from war |
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Hanoi Hilton
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POW prison
U.S. POWs endured conditions that were miserable, and were fed food so bad that the prison was sarcastically nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton," in reference to the well-known Hilton Hotel chain. |
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PTSD
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post traumatic stress disorder
many vets suffer from this condition |
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August 2-4 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
*gave LBJ the reason he needed to increase troops in Vietnam |
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April 30th 1975
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Fall of Saigon
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George F. Kennan
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Who: father of containment
What: 8000 word telegram |
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Lt. William Calley
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Who: American war criminal
What: ordered My Lai massacre Where: My Lai When: March 16 1968 |
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Ho Chi Minh
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Who: Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1946–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
What: defeated French at Dien Bien Phu & led n.Vietnamese. Where: North Vietnam |
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Eugene McCarthy
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Who: presidential hopeful and dove
What: democratic party but didn't win When: 1968 elections Why: not enough money for campaign |
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Robert McNamara
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Who: Secretary of defense
What: plan led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by 30 June 1968 |
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Pol Pot
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Who: leader of khmer rouge & Cambodian prime minister
What: tried to deadvance Cambodia |
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Stuart Herrington
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one of the last us advisers out of Vietnam
went to Duqeusne |
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Ernest Medina
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commanding office of Charlie Company--> My Lai
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Henry Kissinger
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Who: sec of state for Nixon
What: received Nobel Peace Prize for contribution of paris peace accords |
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Hanoi
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capital of Vietnam
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MIA
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missing in action
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Kent State
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shooting of four students by Ohio Nat guard
resulted in student strike of 8 million students |
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Khe Sanh
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Northwestern part of South Vietnam
marine base camp housed 4000 marines Johnson thought we had to win this battle, but it was a rouse--> while distracted here VC launched Tet |
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Tonkin Gulf
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Aug 2-4 1964
USS Maddox and Turner Joy are shot at gives LBJ reason to advance in Vietnam |
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Containment
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policy to stop domino effect
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Pacification
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isolated VC from regular vietnam civilians
peasants forced into strategic hamlets |
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Khymer Rouge
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communist movement led by Cambodian prime minister pol pot
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Agent Orange
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herbicide used in Vietnam
turned out to cause serious damage to those exposed to it |
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ARVN
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army of the republic of vietnam
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Pentagon Paper
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photographed and released by daniel ellsberg
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March on the Pentagon
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anti war demonstration
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Ho Chi Minh trail
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ran from n.vietnam to s.vietnam
provided support in form of manpower and material |
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Pueblo Incident
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US spy ship ceased by n.korea
and cap butner was interrogated & confessed it was a spy ship |
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Jan 30 1968
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Tet offensive
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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first president of s.vietnam
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MLK
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expressed doubts about US involvement in Vietnam
thought money should be put toward war on poverty |
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Senator William Fullbright
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dove
LBJ convinced him to OK GTR and his approval was very influential |
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Herbert Humphrey
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presidential hopeful
lost to Nixon |
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Robert F. Kennedy
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democratic hopeful
won over mccarthy but was shot shortly thereafter |
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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general who won at dien bien phu
leading general against US won 2 self-determining battles |
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Fred Widmer
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member of Charlie Company
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Clark Clifford
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war hawk
come into system and began questioning which yielded no answers convinced LBJ to resign & started de-escalation |
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Graham Martin
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last ambassador to s.vietnam
in denial that things were falling apart delayed pull out of Saigon |
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Hue
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city captured in Tet
we had to drive VC out "destroy Hue to save it" |
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KIA
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killed in action
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My Lai
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March 16 1968
massacre of hundreds of civilians |
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dien bien phu
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Vietnamese victorious against French
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Geneva convention
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provisions on treatment of POW
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vietnamization
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the de-escalation of us assistance and handing it over to s.vietnamese
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operation rolling thunder
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bombing campaign against n.vietnam
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cambodia
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country near vietnam
was bombed by nixon because allegedly held hq of nlf |
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vietcong
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NLF
Communism |
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SEATO
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south east asia treaty organization
wanted to stop dominos from falling |
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Linebacker II
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offensive bombing of Hanoi
aka christmas bombing |
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58,260
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number of us casualties
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March 16 1968
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My Lai Incident
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