viertnam warr

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Vietminh

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was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941.

Question 1

Ho Chi min

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Vietnamese communist statesman, president of North Vietnam 1954–69; born Nguyen That Thanh

Question 2

Domino theory

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The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. The theory was used by many American leaders to justify American intervention in the Vietnam War

Question 3

Geneva accords

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On Indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam, then headed by former emperor Bảo Đại.

Question 4

Vietcong

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The Việt Cộng was the name given by Western sources to the National Liberation Front during the Vietnam War

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Hồ Chí Minh trail

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a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. Wikipedia

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Gulf of Tonkin resolution

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

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Robert McNamara

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Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Napalm

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Napalm is a flammable liquid used in warfare. It is a mixture of a gelling agent and petroleum or a similar fuel. It was initially used as an incendiary device against buildings and later primarily as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on fire.

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Agent orange

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Agent Orange—or Herbicide Orange (HO)—is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand,[1] during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.[2] It was a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D.

Question 10

Draft

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Draft lottery (1969) Representative Alexander Pirnie (R-NY) drawing the first number. On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950.

Question 11

New left

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Many New Left thinkers in the United States were influenced by the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Question 12

SDS

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War. SDS, founded in 1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a social-democratic educational organization.

Question 13

Tet offensive

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Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War,

Question 14

Vietnamization

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Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to “expand, equip, and train South Vietnam’s forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.”

Question 15

Henry Alfred Kissinger

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Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist.

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Richard Nixon

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was the 37th President of the United States

Question 17

Kent state university

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On April 30, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters launched a demonstration that included setting fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsmen to the campus

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Pentagon papers

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Pentagon Papers definition. A classified study of the Vietnam War that was carried out by the Department of Defense. An official of the department, Daniel Ellsberg, gave copies of the study in 1971 to the New York Times and Washington Post.

Question 19

War powers act

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also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor