Vietnam war part two Flashcards
JFK’s Impact
JFK increased military involvement with advisers
Napalm
carpet bomb, a vasaline/gasoline substance that sticks to stuff and burns it away it was used to clear forest
Agent orange
Heribicidal warfare, a spay that caused death and birth defects
Tet Offense
North Vietnam and Viet Cong attack south vietnam simultaniously
Seen as american defeat
Domestic Reaction
LBJ
Focused on maintaining communism
student Protests
Columbia Unviersity: students destroy professors reseach and Keat State University: students shoot for kids
green berets
the US armys first Special Forces operational detachment
Operation rolling thunder
bombing of north vietnam trying to destroy ho chi mien trail
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Drew US more into war
vietnamization
handing over vietnam war to south korea
Ho Chi minh trial
how viet cong supplies north vietnam
Ho Chi minh
Leader of North Vietnam
Pentagon Papers
mislead Amwrican People on intentions in Vietnam
dove vs hawks
The hawks believed that due to the agression of North Vietnamese it forced us into the war. They thought that the United States should do what ever is necessary to win. Doves think that the problem in Vietnam is a civil war. They thought that the United States had no right to be in their conflicts.
my lai
unarmed villagers murdered unhuman