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ch 20 11/22/10
Ch 20 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | most important voice demanding independence for Vietnam |
| domino theory | idea that if a nation falls to communism, is closest neighbors will also fall under communist control |
| Dien Bien Phu | military base in northwest Vietnam |
| Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese communist rebels that waged a guerrilla war against the government of South Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam |
| William Wastmoreland | the American commander in South Vietnam |
| Napalm | jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that explode on impact and cover large areas in flames; dropped by US planes during the Vietnam War |
| hawk | a person who supported US involvement in the Vietnam War |
| Dove | person who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War |
| draftee | young American man drafted into the military service during the Vietnam War |
| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) | organization founded in 1960 at the University of Michigan to fight racism and poverty |
| "credibility gap" | American public's growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War |
| Tet Offensive | communist assault on a large number of South Vietnamese cities in early 1968 |
| Eugene McCarthy | Minnesota senator, anti-war candidate for the Democratic Party nomination |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawal of US forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties |
| Kent State University | demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at National Guard members. One guardsmen thought he heard a gunshot, then fired his rifle, triggering the other National Guardsmen to fire into the group of protesters, killing four people |
| My Lai | village in South Vietnam where in 1968 American forces opened fire on unarmed civilians; US soldiers killed between 400 and 500 Vietnamese |
| Pentagon Papers | classified US government study that revealed American leaders intentionally involved the United States in Vietnam without fully informing the American people; leaked to "The New York Times" in 1971 |
| Paris Peace Accords | 1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War |
| War Powers Act | 1973 law passed by Congress restricting the President's war-making powers; requires the President to consult with Congress before committing American forces to a foreign conflict |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's leading adviser on national security and international affairs |
| realpolitik | a foreign policy promoted by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration based on concrete national interests instead of abstract ideologies |
| Zhou Enlai | Premier of China, Henry Kissinger talked to him to help iron out sensitive issues between China and the US |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union the froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles and placed limits in anti-ballistic missiles |
| detente | flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the US, the USSR, and the People's Republic of China |
| Robert Kennedy | New York's Democratic senator who announced his candidacy for the presidency |
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