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37 Cards in this Set
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Ho Chi Minh |
leader of the Vietnamese communist |
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Vietminh |
League of Independence for Vietnam |
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domino theory |
fear that if one nation fell to Communism, all would fall |
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Dien Bien Phu |
French defeated at this site |
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Geneva Accords |
divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
South Vietnam's president |
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Viet Cong |
Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
supply route for North Vietnamese in Cambodia |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
gave the President nearly complete control over the military actions in Vietnam |
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Robert McNamara |
Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War |
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Dean Rusk |
Secretary of State during Vietnam War |
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General William Westmoreland |
American commander of forces in Vietnam |
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Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
South Vietnamese Army |
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napalm |
gasoline based bomb |
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Agent Orange |
leaf killing toxic chemical |
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search and destroy missions |
uprooting civilians with suspected ties to the Vietcong, killing livestock, and burning villages |
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credibility gap |
gap between what Johnson administration reported and what was really happening |
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draft |
Selective Service System |
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New Left |
growing youth movement |
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Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) |
claimed that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America |
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Free Speech movement |
grew out of clashes between college administrations and students |
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dove |
opposed the war and U.S. should withdraw |
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hawks |
U.S. should unleash its full military force against North Vietnam |
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Tet Offensive |
large scale Vietcong attack on towns and cities during Tet New Year celebration |
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Clark Clifford |
Secretary of Defense in 1968 |
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Robert Kennedy |
1968 presidential candidate killed by an assassin's bullet |
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George Wallace |
3rd party candidate for president in 1968 |
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Eugene McCarthy |
1968 candidate who promised to end the war
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Hubert Humphrey |
1968 Democratic candidate |
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Richard Nixon |
Republican candidate for president in 1968, eventual winner |
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Henry Kissinger |
national security advisor who advised Nixon to replace our troops with South Vietnamese troops- Vietnamization |
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Vietnamizaton |
replace our troops with South Vietnamese troops
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Silent majority |
moderate, mainstream Americans who supported the war |
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My Lai |
massacre of innocent civilians |
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Kent State University |
National guard troops fired on student protesters |
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Pentagon Papers |
revealed lies about the governments role in Vietnam |
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War Powers Act |
set rules for president and how they could engage the enemy |