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Vietnam #4
vocuabulary
Term | Definition |
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Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam |
Robert McNamara | Secretary of Defense under President Johnson; he strongly urged escalation of war in Vietnam |
Dean Rusk | Secretary of State under President Johnson; he strongly urged escalation of war in Vietnam |
William Westmoreland | American commander in South Vietnam; he continually requested more and more troops |
Robert Kennedy | A strong candidate in the Democratic primary for president, he was shot and killed after making a victory speech at a California primary |
Eugene McCarthy | Democratic candidate for president who vowed to end the war in Vietnam |
Hubert Humphrey | Johnson's vice-president who ran in the Democratic primary against Eugene McCarthy; known as a liberal leader for reform |
George Wallace | He ran for president in 1968 as a third party candidate; he was a champion of school segregation and states' rights |
Richard Nixon | President who began Vietnamization - the withdrawal of American troops so they could be replaced by South Vietnamese troops |
Henry Kissinger | Nixon's National Security Advisor; he helped come up with the idea of Vietnamization |
Maya Lin | College architect student who designed "The Wall" - the Vietnam Memorial |