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was a shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. Also known as the May 4 massacre

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a strategy used to end American involement in the Vietnam War by transferring all the military responsibilities to South Vietnam

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a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam

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Checks the

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Checks the Presidents power to commit

US to an armed conflict without the

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Credibility gap was a term coined during

the time of the Vietnam war to describe

public skepticism of the Vietnam War.

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The 26th amendment allowed young adults

between the ages of 18 and 21 to vote.

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A 3 acre memorial in Washington DC

to honor the veterans and US militants

that sered and fought in the Vietnam War

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April 30, 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war

with the capture of Saigon, the South-Vietnamese

capital

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War's are often dependent on popular support, but there were many people who did not like the war and they created groups and got toghether and protested.

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The Pentagon Papers were a series of documents

that had the details of the Vietnam War plan. It was

controversial because it demonstrated that the

Johnson Administration had lied to Congress and

to the public.

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The media was used for the first time during the war. They had color photography and were able to bring the war straight into people's homes which played a very important role in the public's perception of the war.

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Two Thirds of the military were volunteers but the rest were from the draft. majority of the people picked to go into the military were from poor worikng-class families

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This was an American Student organization

that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960's and

was known for their activism against the

Vietnam War.

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This resolution was very instrumantal

in allowing further expansion of the

Vietnam war.

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The trail was actually made up of many different

trails that were all scattered throughout Vietnam

and w ere trails that the northern Vietnamese

troops used to get into the south. They also used

it as a supply route for different needed supplies.

The trails were over 1000 miles long and were

mainly on the borders of the country in the jungle.

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Robert S. Mcnamara was the secratary

of defense secratary of the US during

the Vietnam War and was very influential

in changing and enhancing the fight for

the US.

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A senator from Arkansas who was very vocal and

articulate in his critisism of the US involvment in Vietman

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Was the first sustained American assault on North Vietnam adn represented a major development in US involvment in the Vietnam war.

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The doves and the hawks represented two different perspectives of the war. the hawks wanted war while the doves wanted peace

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While VietCong was attacking the Vietnamese

government and the US forces were depleting,

there needed to be some way to defend the

government, or it would collapse entirely; so

the US sent more troops to fight the war.

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Search and destroy missions were the most common missions undertaken by U.S. forces in Vietnam. The theory was that American forces were so powerful and advanced that they could search out the Viet Cong and "destroy" them with ease.

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Also known as agent orange, it was used to destroy Vietnam forests and it was later found to have masiive health problems such as rashes in tumors in both vietnamese soliders and US soldiers

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He was a former president of Vietnam who started Vietman down the path towards war.
After his assisination teh

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Political organization in Southern Vietnam

that fought against the US and the South

Vietnamese government and emerged on

the winning side of the fight.

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This battle was a climatic confrontation between the  French Union's French Far East  Expeditionary

Corps and the Viet Minh communist-nationalist

revolutionaries. The French eventually lost the

battle with a estimated 3000 troops dead.

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Was an indepednece colaition started to

get independence from France, then later

opposed South Vietnam and the United States

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Ho Chi Minh was a prominent figure in the

democratic independence movement in

Vietnam. He created the Viet Minh which was

a large group of Vietnamese that opposed

the Northern communists. Ho became

president of the Democratic State of Vietnam

after WW2.

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The domino theory says that if a country is communist then the other countires around it will be influenced by the other country and become communist.

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1. http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/ho-chi-minh

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu

3.http://www.biography.com/#!/people/ngo-dinh-diem-39809

4. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628305/Viet-Cong-VC

5. http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/us-escalation-in-vietnam/

6.http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com/ContentPages7./ContentPage.aspx?entryId=1199251&currentSection=119454

7.http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/agent-orange

8.http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=23667

9.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221757/J-William-Fulbright

10. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ho_chi_minh_trail.htm

11. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

12. http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution

13. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569902/Students-for-a-Democratic-Society-SDS

14.http://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-draft/

15.http://www.ushistory.org/us/55d.asp

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

17. http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-amendments/amendment-26-voting-age-set-to-18-years

18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credibility_gap