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Vietnam Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Guerilla Warfare | sudden unexpected attacks carried out by an unofficial military group or groups that are trying to change the government by assaults on the armed forces |
| Exile | a person banished from his or her native land. |
| Flexible Response | |
| Executive Order | a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law. |
| Seek and Destroy | a military strategy that became a large component of the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. |
| Vietcong | a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces |
| Coup | a notable or successful stroke or move: |
| Deferment | the action or fact of putting something off to a later time; postponement: |
| Hawk | a person who advocates an aggressive or warlike policy, esp. in foreign affairs. |
| Dove | US poet and novelist. The youngest poet and the first African-American woman to hold the post of poet laureate of the US |
| Counter Culture | a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm: |
| Silent majority | an unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. |
| Vietnamization | the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. |
| MIAs | missing in action. |
| Martial Law | military government involving the suspension of ordinary law. |
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