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On this day in 1940, the Burke-Wadsworth Act is passed by Congress, by wide margins in both houses, and the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States is imposed. Selective Service was born. the registration for men was between the age of 21-36. In November 1942 with the United States now in war the age expanded to 18-37.

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Was an American business executive  and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy. He was also the President of the World Bank  from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of system analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.

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In August 7, 1964 the Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. rebel forces had established control over nearly half of South Vietnam, and Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, was criticizing the Johnson administration for not pursuing the war more aggressively.

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The Ho Chi Minh Trail was not just one trail but a series of trails. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was used by the North Vietnamese as a route for its troops to get into the South. They also used the trail as a supply route – for weapons, food and equipment. The Ho Chin Minh Trail ran along the Laos/Cambodia and Vietnam borders and was dominated by jungles. In total the ‘trail’ was about 1,000 kilometres in length and consisted of many parts.

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Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto. Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee  and later became known for his opposition to American involvement in the Vietnamn War

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Was a Student Activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the new left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960's before dissolving at its last convention in 1969. SDS has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse.

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Was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.

SDS has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse.

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In July 1966, Rolling Thunder was expanded to include North Vietnamese ammunition dumps and oil storage facilities, and in the spring of 1967, it was further expanded to include power plants, factories, and airfields in the Hanoi-Haiphong area.

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Popularly,“hawks”are those who advocate an aggressive foreign policy based on strong military power. “Doves” try tore solve international conflicts without the threat of force.

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This was a military strategy that they used on the Vietnam forces and became a large component of the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward. The results of this new strategy helped them gain new technology and boosted warfare.

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These were toxic resources that were used during the Vietnam War. There were three main ones that were in use and they were called Agent Orange, Agent White. This caused Vietnamese people to look deformed.

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US escalation in Vietnam came in the wake of Lyndon Johnson’s victory in the presidential election of November 1964. This was when the South Vietnamese military was under siege, unable to cope with the increase in Vietcong raids and bombings. South Vietnam’s government was also at risk of collapse.

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member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.

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Ngo Dinh Diem was the first president of South Vietnam. Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. he announced victory after a fraudulentin 1955 which he won 600,000 votes.

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This battle was the climatic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954.

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This is a member of a communist-dominated nationalist movement, formed in 1941, that fought for Vietnamese independence from French rule. Members of the Vietminh later joined with the Vietcong.

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He was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

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The domino theory held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. In Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam