Chapter 20
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| 1. Ho Chi Minh | The Communist Leader of North Vietnam
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| 2. domino theory | the idea that if Vietnam falled to Communism, its closest neighbors would follow
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| 3. Dien Bien Phi | a military base in northwest Vietnam
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| 4. SEATO-Southeast Asia Treaty Organization | Created to prevent the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia
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| 6. VietCong | NLF (National Liberation Front) guerilla fighters, hid among civilians working with NVA
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| 7. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | the resolution authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack
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| 8. William Westmoreland | the American commander in South Vietnam
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| 9. napalm | jellied gasoline which was dropped in large canisters that created an explosion of fire on impact
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| 10. hawk | those who supported the war
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| 11. dove | Those who protested Johnson's war policies and the war in vietnam
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| 12. draftee | young men drafted into military service via the draft
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| 13. SDS-Students for a Democatic Society | formed to campeign against racism and poverty
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| 14. "credibility gap" | the American public's growing distrust of statements made by the US government.
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| 15. Tet Offensive | a coordinated assault on 36 provincial capitals and 5 major cities during a "cease fire" during the Vietnamese new year of Tet
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| 16. Eugene McCarthy | the antiwar candidate for Democratic party
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| 17. Robert Kennedy | democratic senator brother of JFK
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| 18. Vietnamization | gradual withdraw of U.S forces whilst training and arming the soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army
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| 19. Kent State University | School in Ohio-threw rocks and bottles at member of the National Guard
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| 20. My Lai | village
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| 21. Pentagon papers | classified gov. history
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| 22. Paris peace accords | US, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong
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| 23. War Powers act | resticted president's war-making powers
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| 24. Henry Kissinger | Nixon's leading advisor on national security and international affairs.
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| 25. realpolitik | german word meaning real politics
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| 26. Zhou Enlai | Premier of China
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| 27. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missles
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| 28. detente | replaced diplomatic efforts based on suspicion and distrust
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| NVA | North Vietnamese army
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| Draft | The Lottery system in which people were inducted into the armed forces
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| SVA | South Vietnamese Army
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| President Dien | unpopular ruler of South Vietnam
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