U.S - History 2 - Module 25 - Lesson 2 Flashcards

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Robert McNamara
- Originally worked for Ford Motor Company to help bring costs down
- Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson
- Obsessed with statistics
- Was in favor of escalation in Vietnam in the beginning

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Roberto McNamara
- Trabajó originalmente para Ford Motor Company para ayudar a reducir los costos
- Secretario de Defensa bajo Kennedy y Johnson
- Obsesionado con las estadísticas
- Estaba a favor de la escalada en Vietnam al principio

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General William Westmoreland
- West Point Graduate
- Veteran of World War II and Korea
- Commanded American troops in Vietnam from 1965-1968
- Supported more American involvement in Vietnam
- Strategy for defeating the Vietcong was to destroy their morale through a war of attrition

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General Guillermo Westmoreland
- Graduado de West Point
- Veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Corea
- Comandó tropas estadounidenses en Vietnam de 1965 a 1968
- Apoyó una mayor participación estadounidense en Vietnam
- La estrategia para derrotar al Vietcong fue destruir su moral a través de una guerra de desgaste.

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Credibility Gap
Increased lies from politicians led less people to see the government as credible source

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Brecha de credibilidad
El aumento de las mentiras de los políticos hizo que menos personas vieran al gobierno como una fuente creíble

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Search and Destroy Missions
- Early US strategy
- Involved searching the countryside for vietcong sympathizers and supplies
- Usually involved burning stockpiles of food, destroying weapons, killing livestock, and burning down villages
- Involved destroying crops, houses, killing livestock, seizing or destroying weapons
- Unpopular amongst both Vietnamese civilians and American troops

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Buscar y destruir misiones
- Estrategia temprana de EE. UU.
- Implicó buscar en el campo simpatizantes y suministros del vietcong.
- Por lo general, implicaba quemar reservas de alimentos, destruir armas, matar ganado e incendiar aldeas.
- Involucrado en la destrucción de cultivos, casas, matanza de ganado, incautación o destrucción de armas
- Impopular entre los civiles vietnamitas y las tropas estadounidenses

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War of attrition
- A military strategy in which one side tries to cause so many losses of soldiers and so much destruction of military equipment that it wears down the enemy forces until they collapse.

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Guerra de desgaste
- Una estrategia militar en la que un bando intenta causar tantas pérdidas de soldados y tanta destrucción de equipo militar que desgasta a las fuerzas enemigas hasta que colapsan.

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Battle for “Hearts and Minds”
Goal was for the Americans to gain the popular support of the rural population in the south

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Batalla por “Corazones y Mentes”
El objetivo era que los estadounidenses ganaran el apoyo popular de la población rural del sur.

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Deforestation
The cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of forests by people.

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Deforestación
La tala de árboles en un área grande, o la destrucción de bosques por personas.

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Agent Orange
- Herbicide used by US during Vietnam to destroy plants and vegetation.
- Resulted in millions of illnesses and birth defects in both Americans and Vietnamese citizens.

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Agente naranja
- Herbicida utilizado por EE.UU. durante Vietnam para destruir plantas y vegetación.
- Dio lugar a millones de enfermedades y defectos de nacimiento tanto en ciudadanos estadounidenses como vietnamitas.

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Napalm
- Gasoline based bomb
- Stuck to whatever it landed on and burned
- Used to clear vegetation and entrenched enemies

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Napalm
- Bomba a base de gasolina
- Pegado a lo que sea que aterrizó y quemó
- Se utiliza para despejar la vegetación y los enemigos atrincherados

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