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History
Vietnam War
Term | Definition |
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Ho Chi Minh | leader of North Vietnam |
Vietninh | communist group led by Ho Chi Minh |
domino theory | Eisenhower's exploration for stopping communism |
Dien Bien Phu | major French outpost captured by Vietnam |
Geneva Accords | peace agreement that split Vietnam in two |
Ngo Dinh Diem | leader of South Vietnam |
Vietcong | communist rebel group in South Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh trail | network of paths running between North and South Vietnam |
Tonkin Gulf Resolution | resolution that allowed President Johnson to fight in Vietnam |
Robert McNamara | secretary of defense under Johnson |
Dean Rusk | secretary of state under Johnson |
William Westmoreland | commander of US troops in Vietnam |
naplam | gasoline-based explosive |
agent orange | chemical that destroyed jungle land |
search-and-destroy mission | tactic in which US troops destroyed Vietnamese villages |
credibility gap | situation in which the US public no longer believed in the Johnson administration |
Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan for ending America's involvement in the war |
silent majority | those mainstream Americans who supported Nixon's policies |
Pentagon Papers | government documents that showed the government had no plan for leaving Vietnam |
Henry Kissinger | Nixon adviser who helped negotiate an end to the war |
Khmer Rouge | communist group that took control of Cambodia |
War Powers Act | act that forbids the president from mobilizing troops without Congressional approval |