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Ho Chi Minh
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led Vietnamese revolutionaries that had fled to China. Helped to create the indochinese COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER OF VIETMINH
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Vietminh
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Ho Chi Minh helped form the Vietminh. Organization whose goal it was to win Vietnam's independence from foreign rule. COMMUNIST ARMY LED BY NORTH
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Domino Theory
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Eisenhower likened the countries in the brink of communism to arrow of dominoes waiting to fall one after the other TOUCHING COUNTRIES
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Dien Bien Phu
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in Northwest Vietnam, where the Vietminh overran the LAST FRENCH OUTPOST--->lost, surrendered
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Geneva Accords
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temporarily DIVIDED VIETNAM along the 17th PARALLEL(north comm, south nat)
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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South Vietnam's president strong Anti-communist, refused to take part in the country wide election of 1956. DICTATOR OF NATIONALIST- S. VIETNAM
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Vietcong
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A COMMUNIST OPPOSITION GROUP in the south. Attacked Diem government assassinating thousands of south vietnamese gov. officials
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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NETWORK OF PATHS ALONG THE BORDERS OF VIETNAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA, that was used to supply arms to the Vietcong
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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granted pres. JOHNSON MILITARY POWERS IN VIETNAM GIVES PRES. UNLIMITED POWER TO WAGE WAR. ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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Williams Westmoreland
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AMERICAN COMMANDER OF ARMY IN S. VIETNAM. REQUESTED MORE TROOPS IN VIETNAM
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ARVN
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ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, south vietnamese army (nationalists)
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Napalm
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a gasoline based bomb that can SET FIRE TO JUNGLE
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agent orange
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a leaf killing HIGHLY TOXIC HERBICIDE (chemical)
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search & destroy missions
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conducted by US soldiers, uprooting civilians w/suspected ties to the vietcong, killing their livestock & burning villages. AMERICAN DESTROY SUSPECTED VIETCONG TROOPS/SUPPLIES. . .
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credibility gap
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a PUBLIC DISTRUST of statements made by the GOV
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draft
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american selective service system. All males had to register w/their local draft boards when they turned 18. REQUIRES MEN TO ENLIST IN ARMED SERVICES.
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New left
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DEMOCRATS AGAINST WAR, growing YOUTH movement. Its followers demanded sweeping changes in american society
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SDS
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STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. A New left organization founded by Tom Hayden & Al Harber. Charged that corporations & large gov institutions had taken over America
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Free speech movement
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CANT BE IN SDS, an antiestablishment, New Left organization that originated in a clash between students & administrators at the university of Cal at Berkely
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dove
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a person who OPPOSED the vietnam war & believed that the us should WITHDRAW from it
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hawk
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a person who SUPPORTED us involvement in the vietnam war & believed that the us should use the increased military force to win it. SEND MORE TROOPS
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Tet offensive
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VIETCONG ATTACK, MULTIPLE BASES, SIMULTANEOUSLY ON TET, a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on $. Vietnamese towns & cities
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Bobby Kennedy
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JFK's brother & senator from New York. DEMOCRAT, GONNA BE PRES, BUT ASSASSINATED.
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Richard Nixon
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newly elected pres., announced 1st troop withdrawals from vietnam. REPUBLIC, WON PRES CUZ KENNEDY DIED
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Henry Kissinger
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NIXON'S NATIONAL SECURITY, CREATED VIETNAMIZATION. A german immigrant, expert on international relations
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Vietnamization
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Nixon & Kissinger's plan which called for gradual withdrawal of us troops in order for the S. vietnamese to take on a more active combat role in the war
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silent majority
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SMALL GROUPS SUPPORTED WAR, moderate, mainstream Americans who quietly supported the US efforts in Vietnam
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My Lai
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a village in northern s. vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilians, including women & children, were massacred by us troops
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Kent State
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violence struck on this college campus, where a mass OF STUDENT PROTESTORS led to the burning of the ROTC building, KILLED 4, WOUNDED 9. NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTS AFTER ROCK THROWING
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Pentagon Papers
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a 7000 PG DOC. leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsburg; revealing that the US gov had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam War. SHOWED LBJ'S TRUTHS, REPEALED GULF OF TONKIN RES
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