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Vietnam Vocabulary Test

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Domino Theory
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Robert Kennedy
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Booby traps
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Geneva Accords
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Selective Service System
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Vietcong
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Napalm
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Hawks
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My Lai Massacre
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Containment
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Kent State University
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Bombing of Cambodia
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William Westmoreland
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Henry Kissenger
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Agent Orange
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Ho Chi Minh
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President that used the term Domino Theory
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Nickname for American people that were for the war
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One of the hazards U.S. soldiers faced while fighting in Vietnam
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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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Communist leader of North Vietnam
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Chemical sprayed on vegetation to kill plants to make it easier to see the area better
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Gave LBJ military powers to do whatever he wanted in Vietnam
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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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Nixon ordered this to destroy supply bases used by the N. Vietnamese
J.
President of the U.S. that ordered Operation Rolling Thunder
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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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Said males had to register for the draft when they turned 18
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Gasoline based bomb that set fire to the jungle
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Innocent S.Vietnamese women, children and elderly were brutally killed by U.S. soldiers
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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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Communist group in South Vietnam
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Said that if one country falls to communism then the rest would fall
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Candidate that was running for the democratic party for president that was assassinated by a Palestinian immigrant
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To keep and idea or thing isolated, the reason we got involved in the Vietnam war
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This document divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
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Communist group in Cambodia
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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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Ho Chi Minh's followers in North Vietnam that formed to fight against the French
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Westmoreland's idea that showed the American people how many Vietcong were being killed.
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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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Nickname for American people that were against the war
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Corrupt leader of South Vietnam that the U.S. supported
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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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U.S. ship that was reported to have been shot at by the North Vietnamese
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President before Johnson that 1st sent military advisors to South Vietnam

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