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dkholmes120 — 2015-03-03 17:02:14 UTC

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Domino Theory

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-03 17:08:22 UTC

Was the US's foreign policy to justify the Vietnam War. The thought was that if one country had a communist takeover, then the surrounding nations would then become communist as well.

Ho Chi Minh

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-03 17:12:45 UTC

Was the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than 30 years. He fought against the Japanese, French Colonial powers,and also the US backed South 'Vietnamese.

Vietcong

eken33 — 2015-03-03 17:16:10 UTC

Viet Cong 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.

Doves and Hawks

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-03 17:20:34 UTC

The war divided the country into two different sections. The sections were the people who wanted war and the ones who didn't. The ones who wanted war were known as the "Hawks." The ones who didn't want war were known as the "Doves."

J.Williams Fullbright

eken33 — 2015-03-03 17:21:20 UTC

James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974.

Robert S. McNamara

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-03 17:26:09 UTC

Robert McNamara was the United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968. He played a major role in the US's involvement in Vietnam.

Defoliants

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-03 17:29:21 UTC

A defoliant is a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants and is often used in warfare. These were used by the US during the Vietnam War.

Operation Rolling Thunder

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-03 17:29:50 UTC

During the Vietnam War (1954-75), as part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This 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. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Search and Destroy

eken33 — 2015-03-03 17:32:29 UTC

Refers to a military strategy that became a large component of the Malayan Emergencyand theVietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory,search out the enemy,destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward.

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-03 17:35:39 UTC

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-03 17:38:06 UTC

Ho Chi Minh Trail

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-03 17:38:48 UTC

It was a series of trails used by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war as transportation and supply routes.

eken33 — 2015-03-03 17:39:51 UTC

eken33 — 2015-03-03 17:41:58 UTC

Vietminh

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-04 21:20:10 UTC

The organization that led the struggle for Vietnamese independence against French colonial rule. Was founded by Ho Chi Minh in 1941

Dien Bien PHu

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-04 21:27:20 UTC

Dien Bien Phu

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-04 21:27:20 UTC

Was the decisive battle in the First Indochina War that lasted from 1946-1954. Vietminh forces overran the French colonial troops.

Ngo Ding Diem

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-05 14:06:33 UTC

Ngo Dinh Diem was leader of Vietnam from 1955 until his assassination in 1963. His heavy-handed rule and resulting ouster paved the way to the Vietnam War.

escalation of U.S. forces in Vietnam

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-05 14:51:47 UTC

US escalation in Vietnam came in the wake of Lyndon Johnson’s victory in the presidential election of November 1964. He authorized various bombing attacks and deployed thousands of American troop in Vietnam

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-05 15:33:27 UTC

Congress passed resolution authorizing President Johnson to take any measures necessary to initiate international peace and security in SE Asia.studsty

Students for a Democratic Society

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-05 15:43:51 UTC

Was the largest and most influential radical student organization during the time of the Vietnam War, Had many protests of the war.

Works Cited

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-05 15:51:48 UTC

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-09 16:01:43 UTC

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".

The Credibility Gap

eken33 — 2015-03-09 16:03:24 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. They emerged in the late 1960s doing comedic commentary on the news for the Los Angeles AM rock radio station KRLA 1110, and proceeded to develop more elaborate and ambitious satirical routines on the “underground” station KPPC-FM, Pasadena, California.

The Draft

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:05:38 UTC

The Draft was the system of conscription used during the Vietnam War in which men over 18 were put into a draft lottery system, and if your name was called, you were required to report for duty, or face imprisonment.

Wars Power Act

eken33 — 2015-03-09 16:06:41 UTC

The latter was passed during World War II, giving the president almost plenary power to reorganize government resources to strengthen the war effort.

The Media and The War

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:10:31 UTC

Due to an improvement in the technologies of recording video and taking picture, journalists were able to document war better than ever before. With the influx of new information flooding into the US, it was hard for the government to censor a lot of this information, thus influencing the public opinion of the war greatly.

The Antiwar Movement

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:16:00 UTC

At first, the antiwar movement started on college campuses, with organizations like the SDS leading the charge on campuses. Soon however, the movement gained traction, with over 100,000 people protesting at the Lincoln Memorial and about 30,000 marching on to the Pentagon in 1967. Even famous people like MLK and Muhammad Ali got involved in the movement.

The Anti-war

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:16:07 UTC

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-09 16:21:15 UTC

On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics.

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-09 16:21:21 UTC

Tet Offensive

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:23:35 UTC

Was a series of coordinated attacks by some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in 1968. They attacked more than 100 villages and towns in South Vietnam. News coverage of the offensive shocked and dismayed many American viewers and further eroded support for the war.

Tet Offensive

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:23:53 UTC

dkholmes120 — 2015-03-09 16:30:00 UTC

Penta Papers is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were discovered and released by Daniel Ellsberg, and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.

Fall of

eken33 — 2015-03-09 16:30:05 UTC

Fall of Saigon

eken33 — 2015-03-09 16:30:07 UTC

The Fall of Saigon 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.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:31:01 UTC

Nixon was the president during the tail end of the Vietnam War with Kissinger as his main political adviser. They were the main proprietors of the American foreign policy about Vietnam and were the ones who ended the War officially in 1973.

Works Cited

adamdreyfus — 2015-03-09 16:35:28 UTC