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Chapter 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | most important voice demanding independence for Vietnam |
| domino theory | the idea that if Vietnam fell into communism, its closest neighbors would follow |
| Dien Bien Phu | military base in northwest Veitnam |
| SEATO | Southeast asia treaty organization. defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese communist rebels that waged guerilla war against the government of South Vietnam throughout the Vietnam war |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to south vietnam and fight a war against north vietnam |
| Willian Westmoreland | the american commander in south vietnam |
| 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 involvement in the vietnam war |
| dove | person who opposed us involvemtent in vietnam war |
| draftee | young men drafted into military service |
| SDS | Students for a democratic societyorganization founded in 1960 at the university of michigan to fight racisn and poverty |
| "credibility gap" | american publics 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 | antiwar canididate for the democratic party nomination |
| Robert Kennedy | new yorks democratic senator announced his candidacy for the presidency |
| Vientnamization | President Nixons plans for gradual withdrawal of US forces as south vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties |
| Kent State University | threw rocks and bottles at members of national guard |
| My Lai | Village of strong vietcong presence |
| Pentagon Papers | classied US government study that repealed american leaders intentionally involved the US in vietnam without fully informing the American people; leaked to The New York Times in1971 |
| Paris Peace Accords | 1973 peace agreement between the US, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War |
| War Powers Act | 1973 law passed by congress restricting the presidents war making powers; requires the president to consult with congress before committing american forces to a foreign conflict |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixons 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 leader |
| Strategic Arms | 1972 treaty between the united states and the soviet union froze the developement of intercontinental ballistic missiles and placed limits on antiballistic missiles |
| Limitation Treaty | |
| detente | flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the US the sovit union and the peoples republic of china |
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