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chapter 20 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | became the 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. |
| Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) | defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggression in Asia. |
| Vietcong | South Vietnaamese communist rebels that waged a guerrilla war against the government of South Vietnam throughout the Vietnam War. |
| Gulf on 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 | the american commander in South Vietnam |
| napalm | jellied gasoline 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 rascim and poverty. |
| " credibility gap" | american 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 | the anitwar candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. |
| Robert Kennedy | announced his candidacy for the presidency. |
| Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan for gradual withdrawl of U.S. forces as South Vietnamese troops assumed more combat duties. |
| Kent State University | in Ohio threw rocks and bottles at members of the National Guard. |
| My Lia | village in South Vietnam where in 1968 american forces opened fire on unarmed civilians; U.S. soldiers killed between 400 and 500 Vietnamese. |
| Pentagon Papers | classified U.S. governmnet study that revealed american leaders intentionally involved he united states in vietnam without fully informing the American people. |
| 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 | leading advisor on national security and international affairs, altered this Cold War policy approach. |
| realpolitik | a foreign policy promoted by Henry Kiisinger during the Nixon administration based on concrete national interests instead of abstract ideologies. |
| Zhou Enlai | chinese leaders and ignoring out sensitive issues. |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | 1972 traety between the United States and the Soviet Union that froze the development 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 Rebulic in China. |
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