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Vocab 1/4 Flashcards

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Ho Chi Minh

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Communist leader of North Vietnam

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Domino Theory

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an idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control

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Vietminh

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an organization of Vietnamese communists and other nationalists groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independence from the French

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Dien Bein Phu

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site of major French military defeat in 1954 in Vietnam

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Geneva Accords

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a 1954 peace agreement that divided vietnam into communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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leader of South Vietnam

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Vietcong

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the south Vietnamese communists who fought against the government of south vietnam in the vietnam war

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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a network of path used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in South Vietnam

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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a resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam

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Robert McNamara

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US secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War

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Dean Rusk

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US secretary of state during the Vietnam war

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Napalm

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a gasoline-based substance used in bombs that US planes dropped in Vietnam in order to burn away jungle and expose Vietcong hideouts

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Agent Orange

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a toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by the US planes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts

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William Westmoreland

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American general who commanded American military operation

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Search-and-destroy mission

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a US military raid on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants

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Credibility gap

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a public distrust of statements made by the government

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam

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the southern Vietnamese solders with whom the US troops fought against communism and forces in the North during the Vietnam War

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Draft

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requirement enrollment in the armed services

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New Left

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a youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s, embodied in such organizations as students for a democratic society and the free speech movement

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Students for a Democratic Society

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an antiestablishment New Left group, founded in 1960, that called for greater individual freedom and responsibility

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Free speech movement

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an antiestablishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the university of California at Berkeley

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Dove

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a person who opposed the Vietnam war and believed that the united states should withdraw from it

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Hawk

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a person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the US should use increased military force to win it

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Tet offensive

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a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on south Vietnamese towns and cities early in 1968

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Clark Clifford

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a Lyndon Johnson adviser who became his Secretary of defense

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Robert Kennedy

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JFK’s brother who was unable to complete his political race because he was assassinated

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Eugene McCarthy

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the first antiwar advocate to challenge Johnson for Democratic Presidental nomination

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Hubert Humphrey

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Johnson’s vice president

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George Wallace

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Alabama governor best known for his pro-segregation attitudes during the Civil Rights Movement

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Richard Nixon

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vice president under Eisenhower and 37th president of the US

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Henry Kissinger

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the main negotiator of the peace treaty with the north Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon’s presidency

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Vietnamization

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President Nixon’s strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving the gradual withdrawal of US troops and their replacement with south vietnamese forces

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Silent majority

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name given by Nixon to the moderate mainstream Americans who quietly supported his vietnam war policies

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My Lai

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a village in northern south Vietnam where mor than 200 unarmed civilians, including women and children were massacred by US troops in May 1986

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Kent State University

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an ohio university where national guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the vietnam war on may 4, 1970. wounding 9, killing 4

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Pentagon Papers

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a 7,000 oage document leaked to the press in 1971 by the former defense Department worker Daniel Ellsberg - revealing to the public that the us was not honest with its intentions in the vietnam war

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war powers act

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a law enacted in 1973, limiting a president’s right to send troops into battle without consulting congress

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