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Chapter 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | Demanded independence for Vietnam. He embraced communism and the Soviets supported him |
| domino theory | idea that if a nation falls to communism ,its neighbors will also |
| Dien Bien Phu | a military base in northwest Vietnam |
| SEATO | defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese communist rebels that waged a guerilla war against the gov of S. Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 congressional resolution that authorized Pres. Johnson to commit US troops to SV and fight a war against NV |
| William Westmoreland | American commander in South Vietnam. Believed the US needed to increase its military presence in Vietnam and do more of the fighting in order to win the war |
| napalm | jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that explode on impact and cover large areas in flames; dropped by US planes during the Vietnam War |
| hawk | a person who supported US involement in the Vietnam war |
| dove | person who opposed involvement in the Vietnam War |
| draftee | Young American man drafted into military service during the Vietnam War |
| SDS | Students for a Democratic Society-organization founded in 1960 at the University of Michiganto fight racism and poverty |
| credibility gap | American public's growing distrust of statements made by the gov during the Vietnam War |
| Tet Offensive | communis assault on a large number of SV cities in early 1968 |
| Eugene McCarthy | antiwar candidate for the Democratic Party nomination 1968 |
| Robert Kennedy | Democratic candidate for president. Both believed that the war had divided America and drained its resources away from poverty and discrimination |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawal of US forces as SV troops assumed more combat duties |
| Kent State University | |
| My Lai | village in SV where 1968 American forces opened fire on unarmed civilians; US soldiers killed between 400 and 500 innocent Vietnamese |
| Pentagon Papers | classified US gov study that revealed American leaders intentonally involved in the US in Vietnam without fully informing t;leaked to The New York Times in 1971he American ppl |
| Paris Peace Accords | 1973 peace agreement between the US, SV, NV, 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 Pres. to consult with Congress before committing American forces to a foreign conflict |
| Henry Kissinger | (Secretary of State)leading advisor of Nixon on national security and international affairs, worked to the Vietnam war, open relations with China, and shape a new diplomacy detante with the USSR |
| realpolitik | a foreign policy promoted by Henry Kissinger based on concrete national interests instead of abstract idealogies |
| Zhou Enlai | Chinese premier with whom Henry Kissinger worked behind the scenes to iron out some sensitive issues |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | 1972 treaty between the US and the USSR that froze the deployment of intercontinental ballisitic missles and placed limits on antiballitic missles |
| detente | flexible diplomacy adopted by Rihard Nixon to ease tension between the US, USSR, and China |
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