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What is it:May 4  the shootings of unarmed student protesters at Kent State University in northeast Ohio.

The Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at a rally against the

Nixon administration’s decision to escalate the Vietnam War by invading neighboring Cambodia.

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Kissinger is credited with developing the policy ofDetente, beginning talks to reduce strategic arms (SALT), encouraging China to expand international trade and foreign relations, and ending the Vietnam War. Nixon is credited with announcing the end of the Vietnam War due to Vietnamization.

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located near Constitution Gardens on the National Mall and northeast of the Lincoln Memorial. It stands as a symbol of America's honor and recognition of the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War.

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This act was put into place to limit the power of the president in drawing the United States into an armed conflict. It required the president to get approval from congress to enter an armed conflict. The president can only send U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by congress.

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What is it?: 18- to 20-year-olds would be eligible to vote for president and vice president, but not for state officials up for election at the same time.

Impact: allowed a younger and larger group to vote.

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What is it?:  the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

What Happened?: A military analysis Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war and decided that the Pentagon Papers held so much information that the American public should know about.

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What is it?: some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet), a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. it was an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime

Impact: North Vietnam achieved a strategic victory with the Tet Offensive, as the attacks marked a turning point in the Vietnam War and the beginning of the slow, painful American withdrawal from the region.

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Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th 1975 The fall of Saigon (now Ho Chin Minh City) effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War

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A term that came into use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War. Today, it is used more generally to describe almost any "gap" between the alleged reality of a situation and what politicians and government agencies say about it.[

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What is it? The Vietnamization is

a proposed plan to end the U.S combat troops in the

Vietnam War. Also it ended the involvement of the U.S in the

Vietnam War, but also equip and train South Vietnam's forces

What was the Impact: The impact for America side of the war was

that it's troops deaths decreased dramatically and the Impact of the

South Vietnam side was that more of their own troops were getting

trained. Also President Nixon to had settled a peace with North

Vietnam with some conditions.

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The Ant-war movement started in America during 1964. Many that were invovled into the peace movement were women, children and hippies. The protest towards the war was generally non-violent, but it still caused tension between those who were for the war and those who who were against it

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It was the first war that allowed full freedom of the press. There was no censorship, so the public could see the war for what it actually was. The news usually was benefical until the Tet Offensive of 1968 which made Americans reconsider their support.

The news did however manipulate the coverage in order to gain support. During this war many of the stories were told, so that America looked like the heroes.

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Soldiers for the Vietnam War were drafted through a lottery.  Americans did not like that the government chose to get involved with the war.
The soldiers that were drafted did not want to go off to war intially.

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Who was he?: He was the first president of South Vietnam.

He was born on Jan.3,1901 he began a dictatorship. A staunch anti-Communist, he joined the U.S.-backed government, making himself president in 1955. He imprisoned and murdered hundreds of Buddhists, causing the U.S. to remove its support. Diem's assassination in 1963 left Vietnam vulnerable to the Communist threat from the north, eventually resulting in civil war.

Impact: Started the Civil War between the south and the north.

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The Vietcong were a political organization and army that fought against the United States and South Vietnamese. In the end they ended up being one the winning side. The Vietcong included both an organized army and guerilla units that were made of locals. The army was prominent in both Vietnam and Cambodia.

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On August 2nd, 1964, North Vietnamese boats fired upon United States Naval Boats that were sailing ten miles off of North Vietnam in support of the South Vietnamese. President Johnson asked Congress to react and the House and Senate responded with an almost unanimous decision to take all neccessary measures to deal with the North Vietnamese aggression.

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What is it?

a network of roads built from North Vietnam to
South Vietnam

Its Purpose?

to provide logistical support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War

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U.S. military tactic of attrition used in Vietnam between 1965 and 1968. Created  by General William Westmoreland and his deputy, Brigadier General William DePuy, search and destroy depended on military capabilities at the given time.

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What is it? The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 signalled the end of French

influence in the Indochina.The battle fought, was the last European state in the region.

Indochina being  the anti french resistance war.

Impact:

It cleared the 17th parallel and was no more communism in the region

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What is It?

Authorized President Johnson to
take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations prosecution of the Vietnam War.

Impact:

gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the
Vietnam War.

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Who was he?

left his seat as president of the Ford Motor Company to accept an invitation from President Kennedy to become U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Impact:

A key adviser in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, McNamara developed the idea of Mutual Assured Destruction, which held that in a world in which both the US and USSR possessed enough nuclear weapons to wipe each other off the map

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What is it?: the largest and most influential radical student organization of the 1960's

Impact: demonstrations against the war drew thousands of protesters.

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What is it?: U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968; massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam.

Impact:  expanded American air operations

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What is it?: a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops

Impact: Health effects such as tumors, birth defects, rashes, psychological symptoms and cancer.

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What is it?

It was a national independece coalition formed at Pac Bo.

Impact:

It was meant to help Vietnam gain their independence. They opposed the French and then the US. Lastly they opposed South Vietnam

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Who is he?

He was a Vietnames communist and revoltuionary leader. He was all the prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Impact:

He led the Viet Minh Independence movement.

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What is it?

It was a theory that was use during the 1950s-80 that stated if one country was overtaken by communism than the surrounding countries would follow after in a domino effect.

Impact:

The domino effect was stated in Eisenhower's speech and it laid the US foundation in Vietnam. The US increased aid and support in the South Vietnam.