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chp 20 gs us vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Ho Chi Minh | a man who embraced communism and rebelled against France's control over Vietnam |
| 2. domino theory | the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism near by countries would follow |
| 3. Dien Bien Phu | a military base in northwest Vietnam; seized it for 55 days trapping french troops |
| 4. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | was similar to NATO, it's goal was to contain the spread of communism in southeast Asia |
| 5. Vietcong | NLF guerrilla fighters; they assassinated government officials and destroyed roads and bridges |
| 6. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | this authorized the President "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the united states and to prevent further aggression." |
| 7. William Westmoreland | the american commander in south vietnam |
| 8. Napalm | is a jellied gasoline which was dropped in large canisters that exploded on impact, covering large areas in flames |
| 9. hawks | conservatives who supported Johnson's war policy |
| 10. Doves | liberal politicians, pacifists, student radicals, and civil rights leaders;they questioned the war on both moral and strategic grounds |
| 11. draftee | young men drafted into military service for vietnam |
| 12. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | this group of people campaigned to end the war in vietnam |
| 13. "credibility gap" | this referred to what the government said and what many journalists reported. it also showed the american public's distrust of statements made by the government |
| 14. Tet Offensive | was named after the Vietnamese lunar new year; was an assault on 36 provincial capitals, 5 major cities, and the U.S. embassy in Saigon |
| 15. Eugene McCarthy | was the antiwar candidate for the Democratic party nomination |
| 16. Robert Kennedy | was New York's Democratic senator who ran for the presidency |
| 17. Vietnamization | u.s. forces would withdraw as ARVN troops assumed more combat duties |
| 18. Kent State University | in ohio a group of demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at members of the national guard. |
| 19. My Lai | was a village in Vietnam where Lieutenant William Calley's unit began shooting and killing unarmed civilians (4 to 5 hundred Vietnamese dead) |
| 20. Pentagon Papers | the term referred to a classified government history of america's involvement in vietnam |
| 21. Paris Peace Accords | a treaty between the u.s., south vietnam, north vietnam, and the vietcong (cease fire and u.s. troop removal from south vietnam) |
| 22. War Powers Act | this act restricted the President's war-making powers by requiring him to consult with congress within 48 hours of committing american forces to a foreign conflict |
| 23. Henry Kissinger | Nixon's national security and international affairs adviser helped alter the cold war policy approach |
| 24. realpolitik | a german word meaning "real politics" |
| 25. Zhou Enlai | premier in China; met with Nixon to discuss sensitive issues |
| 26. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | also know as SALT 1; this treaty froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM's)and antiballistic missiles (ABM's)did not end the arms race between the u.s. and the soviet union |
| 27. detente | this replaced previous diplomatic efforts based on suspicion and distrust. (a policy aimed at easing cold war conflict) |
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