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Am. History

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Vietminh   show
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show General that was in South Vietnam that asked for more troops because he was not impressed with South Vietnam's fighting ability  
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show President that used the term Domino Theory  
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Deferment   show
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show Required military service for males 18 years-26 years during a time of need, if your number is picked you have to go  
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Vietcong   show
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Ho Chi Minh   show
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Ho Chi Minh Trail   show
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show Nickname for American people that were for the war  
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Doves   show
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John F. Kennedy   show
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Domino Theory   show
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Ngo Dinh Diem   show
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Selective Service System   show
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show This document divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel  
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show Gave LBJ military powers to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam  
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show Someone who opposes war based on their moral and religious beliefs- a way to get out of the actual fighting in Vietnam  
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Lyndon B. Johnson   show
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Agent Orange   show
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Napalm   show
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show Military strategy used by Vietcong that used hit and run tactics  
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show To keep and idea or thing isolated, the reason we got involved in the Vietnam war  
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USS Maddux   show
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show South Vietnamese army that we were fighting with in Vietnam  
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Search and Destroy   show
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show Westmoreland's idea that showed the American people how many Vietcong were being killed.  
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show One of the hazards U.S. soldiers faced while fighting in Vietnam  
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Credibility Gap   show
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show College students were protesting the war and National Guardsmen were brought in that fired into the crowd and killed 4 people  
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Geneva Conference   show
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Working Class War   show
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show Nixon's policy to gradually take troops out of Vietnam and have the S. Vietnamese begin to take over fighting fr themselves  
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show Nixon ordered this to destroy supply bases used by the N. Vietnamese  
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show Communist group in Cambodia  
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show Was against the Vietnam War when he saw how disproportionate the number of black men serving and being killed in comparison to the number of white men  
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show Limited the Presidents ability to send troops  
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show Innocent S.Vietnamese women, children and elderly were brutally killed by U.S. soldiers  
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show Vietcong launched a surprise attack on S.Vietnamese cities after they had agreed to a truce over the New Year holiday- Vietcong lost, win for U.S.  
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show Written document that showed that the U.S. was planning to enter the Vietnam War even when LBJ was telling the American people that the U.S. would not get involded  
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show President elected after LBJ decided not to run for re-election- he wanted the S.Vietnamese to do more of their own fighting and get U.S. soldiers home  
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show National Security Advisor that worked with Nixon and secretly met with one of North Vietnam's negotiators to end the war  
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show Candidate that was running for the democratic party for president that was assassinated by a Palestinian immigrant  
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James Earl Ray   show
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