Guo Padlet Vietnam War by Cooper St.Clair

Domino Theory

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:24:21 UTC

The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

Hồ Chí Minh

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:27:34 UTC

Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Côn, or Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Search and Destroy Missions

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:38:42 UTC

Search and Destroy, Seek and Destroy, or even simply S&D, refers to a military strategy that 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.

Operation Rolling Thunder

homiedude43 — 2015-02-24 15:39:23 UTC

Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968

Doves and Hawks

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:40:22 UTC

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

Vietminh 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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viet cong

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was a political organization and
army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South
Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War

Robert S Mcnamara

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:41:31 UTC

Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

Ho Chi Minh Trail

homiedude43 — 2015-02-24 15:41:37 UTC

a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

stclaircooper — 2015-02-24 15:42:32 UTC

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Students for a Democratic Society

homiedude43 — 2015-02-24 15:42:41 UTC

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 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.

J. WIlliam Fullbright

homiedude43 — 2015-02-24 15:44:00 UTC

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

escalation

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is the process of increasing or
rising, derived from the concept of an escalator.

Ngo Dinh Diem

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First president of south vietnam

defoliants

2015-02-24 15:50:31 UTC

a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants and is often used in warfare

Kent State Shootings

2015-02-26 15:06:49 UTC

The May 4th massacre in which 4 were killed and 9 were wounded at Kent State University.

Pentagon Papers

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United States Department of defense, history of the U.S political-military involvement in Vietnam.

26th Amendment

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prohibits the states and federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the U.S who are at least 18 years old the right to vote.

Draft

stclaircooper — 2015-02-26 15:20:03 UTC

compulsory recruitment for military service. People get drafted to the military without volunteering.

Anti-War Movement

stclaircooper — 2015-02-26 15:25:19 UTC

A movement to stop the war, from people.

Tet offensive

stclaircooper — 2015-02-26 15:27:46 UTC

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

The credibility gap

homiedude43 — 2015-02-26 15:28:25 UTC

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team comprising Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander and Michael McKean. Lew Irwin, John Gilliland, Thom Beck, and Len Chandler also performed in their early days

War Powers Act

homiedude43 — 2015-02-26 15:29:56 UTC

The War Powers Act of 1941, also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The fall of Saigon

homiedude43 — 2015-02-26 15:32:14 UTC

Fall of Saigon

Saigon

Media and the War

stclaircooper — 2015-02-26 15:32:29 UTC

Media got involved in the Vietnam war, a lot of people talking about stopping it, a lot of propaganda to end the war.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

homiedude43 — 2015-02-26 15:33:53 UTC

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 3 acres national memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors U.S. service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service