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HST316B Unit 3

Vietnam and Counterculture

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Viet Cong communist guerrilla force in Vietnam; also known as the National Liberation Front
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 act of Congress allowing the President to take "all necessary action" to aid South Vietnam without declaring an act of war.
Ho Chi Minh Trail network of roads and tunnels through Cambodia and Laos that North Vietnam used to supply the Viet Cong
Operation Rolling Thunder codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War from March 1965 to October 1968
Tet Offensive 1968 Military push by the Viet Cong to hit military and civilian command centers in South Vietnam during the Vietnamese New Year
New Left coalition of activists in the 1960s whose causes included protesting poverty, racism, and the Vietnam War
Free Speech Movement 1964-65 student protest asserting students' rights to freedom of political expression and protesting campus rules; such as dress codes and curfews
Detente effort to reduce tensions and establish better relations between superpowers in the 1970s
Watergate scandal that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon; started with a burglary at the Democratic National Committee's HQ and followed by an attempted cover-up and obstruction of justice
Pentagon Papers name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967
Vietnamization Nixon's effort to transfer the fighting of the Vietnam War from American forces to South Vietnamese soldiers by providing equipment and funding
guerrilla warfare fighting strategy in which a small, unconventional force attacks a larger one by hit-and-run tactics
Counterculture subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores (Hippies 1964-74)
doves people who opposed the escalation of the Vietnam war and called for negotiated peace and American withdrawal
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