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US history ch 20
The Vietnam War Era 1954-1975
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | most important voice demanding independence for Vietnam |
| domino theory | idea that if a nation falls to communism, its closest neighbors will also fall under communist control |
| Dien Bien Phu | a military base in northwest Vietnam |
| South East 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 U.S. troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam |
| William Westmoreland | American commander in South Vietnam |
| napalm | jellied gasoling dropped in canisters that explode on impact and cover large areas in flames; dropped by U.S. planes during the Vietnam War |
| hawk | a person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War |
| dove | person who opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War |
| draftee | young American man drafted into 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" | America 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, antiwar candidate for the Democratic Party |
| Robert Kennedy | New York's Democratic senator presidential candidate |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties |
| Kent State University | threw rocks and bottles ar members of the National Guard |
| My Lai | village that was searched by American troops on March 16th, 1968 |
| Pentagon Papers | classified U.S. 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, 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 | Chinese Premier |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union that froze the deployment of intercontinental ballistic missiles and placed limits on antiballistic missiles |
| detente | flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China |
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