Vietnam War Topics- Alfred Grimaldo, Rebecca Ortega, Chris Brownlow, and Giancarlo Romo by Alfred Grimaldo

Operation Rolling Thunder

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A title of grdual and sustained Us, from march 2,1965 to Novemeber 2,1968

There are 4 objectives for thisoperation

1.To boost sagging morale of the regime in the Republic of Vietnam.

2.To persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam.

3. To destroy North Vietnam's transportation system.

4. Industrial base, and air defenses.

Domino Theroy

alfred_grimaldo — 2015-02-24 16:50:37 UTC

The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a row of falling dominoes.

Ho Chi Minh

alfred_grimaldo — 2015-02-24 16:55:26 UTC

His dates are 1890-1969, he was a Vietnamese Communist leader and the one main force behind the Vietnamese struggle when they were facing the French colonial rule.

Vietminh

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A member of a communist-dominated nationalist movement. It was formed in 1941 and fought for Vietnamese independence against the French rule.

search and destroy

2015-02-24 17:01:37 UTC

Search and destory or seek and destroy is a military stratigy used in the vietnam war. It created the helecpoter.

Dien Bien Phu

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The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climax of the First Indochina War against the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist- nationalist revolutionaries.

Ho Chi Minh Trail

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(also known in Vietnam as Truong Song Trail)

A logical system that ran from The Democratic Repiblic Of Vietnam to Republic of Vietnam, through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provide support inmen power and material.

Ngo Dinh Diem

2015-02-24 17:08:01 UTC

Diem led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. The U.S. supported him due to his staunch anti-communism, he announced victory after a fraudulent 1955 plebiscite in which he won 600,000 votes from an electorate of 450,000 and began building a right-wing dictatorship in South Vietnam.

Vietcong

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Vietcong

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a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975), and emerged on the winning side.

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It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army.

Students for a Democratic Society

2015-02-24 17:18:33 UTC

Was a student activist movment in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. SDS has been an important influence on student organizing in the decades since its collapse, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets, and its organizational structure are all present in varying degrees in current American student activist groups

De

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A defoliant is any chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause its leaves to fall off. A classic example of a highly toxic defoliant is Agent Orange, which the British military used abundantly to defoliate regions of Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, and the U.S. military to defoliate regions of Vietnam during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1970

William Fulbright

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James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United State Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat. Who supported the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His efforts to establish an international exchange program eventually resulted in the creation of a fellowship program which bears his name, the Fulbright Program, President Bill Clinton cited him as a mentor.

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Defoliants differ from herbicides in that the former seeks mainly to strip leaves from plants, and the latter is used to destroy or inhibit the growth of plants.

Escalation

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Escalation is the process of increasing or rising,

Doves and Hawks

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doves and hawks are terms applied to people based upon their views about a military conflict. A dove is someone who opposes the use of military pressure to resolve a dispute; a hawk favors entry into war. The terms came into widespread use during the Vietnam War, but their roots are much older than that conflict.

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Robert S. McNamara Biography

Robert S. McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth U.S. Secretary of Defense. He is best known for helping lead the U.S. into the Vietnam W

Tonkin gluf resolution

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A joint resolution "To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia

The Draft

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In 1940, the Burke-Wadsworth Act was passed by Congress which introduced the draft and that meant the registration of men between the ages of 21 and 36 to be sent into the military.

The Media and The War

2015-02-26 16:44:54 UTC

This was how the media's form and substance of relaying information about th wars going on to the public. Used mainly to supply information and awareness of what was really going on where their troops were.

The Antiwar Movement

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A social movement the opposes a nation's choice to carry-on an armed forces conflict. Basically opposes to all use of military force during conflicts.

Tet Offensive

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Was the United States involvement in the Vietnam War and was going on in late January, 1968. Got it's name because it took place during the lunar new year, AKA "tet" holiday. Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong troops launched a coordinated attack against a specified number of targets in South Vietnam.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

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Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961

Henry Kissinger an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Richard N. and Henry K.

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Before even being elected president, Richard Nixon had talked of the need for better relations with the PRC, with which the U.S. did not maintain diplomatic relations as it recognized the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan as the government of China. Early in his first term, Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger began sending subtle overtures hinting at warmer relations to the PRC government. After a series of these overtures by both countries, Kissinger flew on secret diplomatic missions to Beijing, where he met with Premier Zhou. On July 15, 1971, the President announced that he would visit the PRC the following year.

Vietnamization

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Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. 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 U.S. combat troops".

War Powers Act of 1973

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The War Powers Act, also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973, requires the following: the President, upon sending troops into military action, must notify Congress within 48 hours that he has done so. The Resolution also forbids military personnel from remaining in a state of conflict for more than 60 days (including an additional 30 days for withdrawal). After that, the President must seek an additional authorization from Congress or a formal declaration of war

War Powers Act of 1973

2015-02-26 17:02:58 UTC

The War Powers Act requires the following: the President, upon sending troops into military action, must notify Congress within 48 hours that he has done so. The Resolution also forbids military personnel from remaining in a state of conflict for more than 60 days (including an additional 30 days for withdrawal). After that, the President must seek an additional authorization from Congress or a formal declaration of war

War Powers Act of 1973

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Kent State Shootings

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The shootings occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of four million students, and the event further affected public opinion—at an already socially contentious time—over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.