by Katie Garcia

Katie Garcia, Camille Chargois, Blanca Pompa

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:32:49 UTC

6th

Domino Theory

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:38:07 UTC

In the 1950s to the 1980s, it speculated that if one state in a region was influenced by communism, then the surrounding countries would be influenced by it as well.

Ho Chi Minh

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:43:05 UTC

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

Vietminh

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:46:01 UTC

It means "League for the Independence of Vietnam" and was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941.

Dien Bien Phu

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:47:15 UTC

It was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist nationalist revolutionaries. It was from March 13 to May 7 in 1954.

Ngo Dinh Diem

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:49:11 UTC

He was the first president of South Vietnam. He led the efforts to create the Republic of Vietnam during the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords.

Viet Cong

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 16:53:32 UTC

It was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, and emerged on the winning side.

Years of Escalation 1965-68

cchargois11 — 2015-02-25 16:54:58 UTC

This conflict between the U.S. and Vietnam started as a domino effect of it's own that started with the alleged first fire by Vietnam gunboats on August 2, 1964. After continued fire, President called on Congress to take action, launching Operation Rolling Thunder and ground troops. Also an alternative name for the Vietnam War.

Defoliants

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It is a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants. Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants that was used to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them.

Search-and-Destroy Missions

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It is a military strategy that inserted ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward.

Hawks and Doves

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 17:04:46 UTC

The war divided people in to sections. Those who wanted the war were known as "Hawks" and then the ones who didn't want war were known as "Doves." The hawks believed that the aggression of North Vietnam forced them into the war.

Robert Strange McNamara

cchargois11 — 2015-02-25 17:08:29 UTC

American Business executive and eighth Secretary of Defense from 1961-1968. His policies shaped the way the U.S. military ran as well as shaping strategy in the Vietnam War. McNamara reorganized the military by streamlining the equipment development and procurement system, saving tax payers money by requiring the Air Force to use the Navy's F-4 Phantom and A-7 combat aircraft.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 17:14:21 UTC

It was enacted August 10, 1964 and was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional" military force in Southeast Asia.

Operation Rolling Thunder

zoominthepool — 2015-02-25 17:17:06 UTC

It was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from March 2, 1965 until November 2, 1968.

Students for a Democratic Society

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It was an American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism against the Vietnam War. It was founded in 1959, had its origins in the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy, a social-democratic educational organization.

J. William Fulbright

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He was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. He was vocal and had articulate criticism of US military involvement in South Vietnam. He was the leading proponent for an end to the US bombing of North Vietnam and for peace talks to settle the Vietnamese conflict.

Ho Chi Minh Trail

cchargois11 — 2015-02-25 17:34:36 UTC

A logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia and existed from 1959-1965. It went by the alternative name of the Strategic Supply Route in Laos. It was used to transport war supplies, weapons, and food for the Communist Democratic Party between war zones.

The Draft

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 16:25:07 UTC

There was a draft lottery on December 1, 1969 by the Selective Service System of the United States to determine the order of call to military service in the war. It was for men born from 1944 to 1950.

The Media and the War

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 16:39:03 UTC

Media covered the war and the people back at home saw the actual war. This was the first time that there was full freedom to the press.

The Antiwar Movement

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 16:41:09 UTC

It was a social movement that was in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe existing just cause. It was pacifism, the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts.

Tet Offensive

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 16:45:30 UTC

It was a series of major attacks by communist forces. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

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Henry Kissinger is an american diplomat and political scientist and served as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He negotiated the US withdrawal from Vietnam.

Vietnamization

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 16:56:29 UTC

A policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the war to end US involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of US combat troops."

Kent State Incident

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:01:32 UTC

There was a massive protest on campuses throughout the country due to Nixon's announcement of the invasion of Cambodia by the United States on national television and the draft to expand Vietnam War efforts. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters set fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor to dispatch 900 National Guardsmen to the campus.

Pentagon Papers

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:09:31 UTC

It is the United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

26th Amendment

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It lowered the voting age in America from 21 to 18. In 1970 case Oregon v. Mitchell, a divided US Supreme Court ruled that Congress had the right to regulate the minimum age in federal elections. If they were old enough to fight, they should be old enough to vote.

Credibility Gap

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:15:33 UTC

It is the apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true. It was used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies.

The War Powers Act of 1973

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:31:03 UTC

It required the President, upon sending troops into military action, must notify Congress within 48 hours that he has done so. It limited the President's power.

Fall of Saigon

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It was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam by the People;s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975.

Fall of Saigon

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:34:50 UTC

It was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30,

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

zoominthepool — 2015-02-27 17:37:08 UTC

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. It is in Washington, D.C.

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