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Vietnam Flashcards

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Viet-Mihn, refers to league of independence for Vietnam

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An organization who’s goal was to win Vietnams independence from foreign rule

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Ho-Chi Mihn

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Helped create indochines communist party, helped fight the Japanese

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Hanoi

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Capital of north Vietnam

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Viet Cong

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The south Vietnam communist who fought the south Vietnam government in the Vietnam war

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Down vein phu

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French outpost in northwestern Vietnam

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Info china- (French)

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Owned Vietnam before the war and want it back

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Haiphong bombed

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By the French and starts the 8-year war

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Viet-cong

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National liberation front

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Geneva peace conference

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  1. ) divided into 3 countries- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
  2. ) made into north and south Vietnam
  3. ) national election, unification decides who controls Vietnam
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American ambassador at the conference

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Henry Cabot lodge

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South Vietnam capital

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Saigon- Ngo Dihn Diem- not communist but unpopular and corrupt

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August 1964

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Maddox attacked by Vietnamese on the gulf of Tonkin

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Gulf on Tonkin resolution

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Allows the president to use military force

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Operation rolling thunder

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Bomb Vietnam

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Search and destroy

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Kill every man of military age and burn all villages

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Mi Lai Massacre

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54 Vietnamese citizens killed

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Hawks

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Supported the war

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Doves

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Opposed the war

  1. ) it’s a civil war in a different country
  2. ) south Vietnam is corrupt
  3. ) many casualties
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Richard Nixon

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Elected president in 1968

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Henry Kissinger

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Elected national security advisor

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Vietnamization

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Use money
Use airport
Don’t use ground troops

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Fire free zones

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Everybody in that area is an enemy

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Operation Phoenix

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CIA arrests communists

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Pentagon papers

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  1. ) nothing happened at the gulf of Tonkin

2. ) Nixon has no plans to end the war

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War powers resolution

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President can send troops for 60 days, after that the president needs congress approval

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General Ford

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President when last troops leave

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