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Vietnam War Flashcards

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Ho Chi Minh

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Communist aggressor in vietnam
Formed Vietminh in north
Goal to win independence from France

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Vietminh

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Vietnamese revolutionaries in North led by Ho Chi Minh

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What happened and what is dien bien phu?

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It was a major French colonial village that was taken over by Vietminh in 1954

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Domino theory

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If one nation falls under communist rule, surrounding nations will too

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What did Ngo dinh diem do

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Refused to take part in country wide election of 1965. Ion charge of south.
Corrupt govt, suppressed opposition
Buddhist restrictions which results in protests

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Vietcong

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Communist opposition group in the south

NLF

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Ho Chi Minh trail

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Ho Chi Minh sent Vietcong supplies via network of paths

Borders Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

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Kennedy and Vietnam

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Increased aid to diem

Financial and military aid

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Strategic hamlet program

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Goal: pacification of southerners
Fortified villages
Alienated people

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How did diem die

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Assassinated
U.S. Part of a coup to kill him (1963)
Against kennedys wishes

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What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

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USS Maddox fired at Vietnam torpedo and inflicted heavy damage
Crew claimed they saw north firing at them
U.S. Had been leading secret raids

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French colonialism in Vietnam?

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French colonizes Vietnam

U.S. Provides money to help them fight off Ho Chi Minh and his followers

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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Granted Johnson broad military powers in vietnam

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Robert McNamara

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Secretary of defense under Johnson

At first dispatched soldiers to Vietnam but later showed doubts

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Dean risk

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Secretary of State
Worked close with Johnson
Dispatched soldiers

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Hit and run ambush tactics

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Network of elaborate tunnels
Able to withstand airs trikes and launch surprise attacks
Guerrilla forces

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Who was the Vietcong made out of

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Civilians in south

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Napalm

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Gasoline based bomb

Set fire to jungle

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Agent orange

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Leaf killing toxic chemical

Wounded civilians left villages and surroundings in ruin

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Search and destroy missions

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Uprooted suspected Vietcong members

Burned villages, killed livestock

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Credibility gap

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Gap between what johnsons admin was saying and what was happening

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TET OFFENSIVE

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Every city in south Vietnam attached on new year (tet, 1968)
Undermined us morale = nation divided

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Operation rolling thunder

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LBJ ordered air strikes against selected targets in north

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Vietnam draft

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Mostly poor m, uneducated, and black people drafted

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Tactics to avoid draft

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Sympathetic doctors gave medical exemptions, changed residence to stand before more lenient board, young men enrolled in university could put off service (rich)

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The new left

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Youth movement of the 1960s
Demanded changes in society

Ex dress codes curfews dorm regulations and mandatory reserves officer training corps (ROTC)

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Students for democratic society

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Charged that large corporations and large govt institutes had taken over America
Called for restoration of greater individual freedoms

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Free speech movement (FSM) 1960

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Clash between students and administrators over free speech on campus
Focused criticism on faceless and powerful businesses
Prominence at univ. of Cali
Mario savio leader

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Hawks

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Strongly supported America should release much of its military force

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Doves

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Strongly opposed war

Supported withdrawal

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1968 election

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Robert Kennedy
Eugene mc Carthy
Richard Nixon
Herbert Humphrey

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Robert Kennedy

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Supported Israel, shot

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Eugene McCarty

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Platform to end war

Weakened Johnson who withdrew

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Herbert Humphrey

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Upset anti war activists
Had johnsons support
Ex VP

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Richard Nixon

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Promise to restore law and order
Promised to end war
Helped my George Wallace (supported segregation won support of south)

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Democratic convention riot

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Decision for Humphrey to run angered many people
Goal to pressure democrats to end war
SDS staged protest, hoped to provoke violence

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What were the results of the democratic convention riot

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Police sprayed people with mace, beat them
McCarthy used hotel as medical centers
democrats= party of disorder
Broadcast on TV

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Nixon and Henry Kissinger

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Vietnamization (gradual pullout of U.S. troops)

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My Lai massacre

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William calley jr

Ordered to shoot everyone and anyone while searching for Vietcong Rebels

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Invasion of Cambodia

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Clear out North and Vietcong supply centers
Many people not happy
Appealed Tonkin gulf resolution (1970)

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Kent state protest

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Student protests led to burning of ROTC building

National guard opened fire bc students threw rocks

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Pentagon papers

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Showed govt was lying about its actions in Vietnam
Showed drawn up plans to enter before LBJ said he would
No plans to end war

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Withdraw of US troops

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Peace is at hand - Kissinger
Dropped insistence for north to withdraw troops
Kissinger met with LE DUC TO

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What did the Aggreement on ending war and restoring peace say?

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North troops remain in south but Nixon respond with full force to any violation of peace aggreement

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The fall of Saigon

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North launched full scale invasion of south (1975)
Thieu asked for help, sent economic aid
South surrendered

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Civil war in Cambodia

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Khmer Rouge (communist) attempted to transform Cambodia into peasant country
Executed anyone with education of foreign ties
47
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Who was leader of Khmer Rouge?

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Pol pot

48
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War powers act (1973)

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Pres must inform congress within 48 hours of sending troops in hostile area without declaration of war

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