6816642142 | America's purpose in Vietnam War | stop the spread of communism | 0 | |
6816642144 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist leader wanted independence for Vietnam | 1 | |
6816642146 | Vietminh | Ho Chi Minh's organization to fight for Vietnamese independence | 2 | |
6816642149 | Domino theory | President Eisenhower's theory that communism would spread through Asian countries | 3 | |
6816642150 | communism | a political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country | 4 | |
6816642153 | Ngo Dinh DIEM | non communist South Vietnamese president, supported by US | 5 | |
6816642154 | Vietcong | South Vietnamese group against Diem starting in 1957 | 6 | |
6816642155 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | paths by which Ho Chi Minh supplied weapons to Vietcong in the south | 7 | |
6816642159 | Tonkin Gulf Resolution | August 1964 the USS Maddox & another destroyer claim to be attacked in Tonkin Gulf, Johnson uses the excuse to bomb Vietnam | 8 | |
6816642169 | napalm | gasoline based bomb by US to set fire to the jungle | 9 | |
6816642170 | Agent Orange | US used this leaf killing toxic chemical - blamed for caners in veterans | 10 | |
6816642172 | Search and destroy missions | burning villages and killing animals while looking for Vietcong, creating 3 million refugees | 11 | |
6816642173 | guerilla | a member of an irregular armed force (Vietcong) that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | 12 | |
6816642177 | draft | Selective Service System, men 18-26 called to military service | 13 | |
6816642178 | why the draft was unfair | many wealthy men got out of it by medical exemption, joining National Guard or Coast Guard OR college. | 14 | |
6816642183 | SDC Students for a Democratic Society | 1960, wanted greater individual freedom, less power for government and large corporations | 15 | |
6816642184 | Free Speech Movement | 1964, university student movement | 16 | |
6816642187 | Why protesters opposed the war | 1. America had no business in Vietnam 2. war was taking America's strength 3. war is morally wrong | 17 | |
6816642189 | conscientious objectors | opposed to going to war, some served as medics, some fled to Canada or went to jail | 18 | |
6816642190 | Tet offensive | 1968 month long battle starting on Tet, Vietnamese New Year, shocked Americans | 19 | |
6816642192 | Henry Kissinger | President Nixon's National Security Advisor, planned to end American's involvement in Vietnam | 20 | |
6816642193 | Richard Nixon | elected president 1969, announced US withdrawal from Vietnam | 21 | |
6816642194 | The Fall of Saigon | March 1975, North Vietnam took over South Vietnam | 22 | |
6816642195 | Death toll | 58,000 Americans dead, 303,000 wounded, over 2 million Vietnamese | 23 | |
6816642196 | Vietnamization | Nixon and Kissinger's plan to withdraw gradually from Vietnam | 24 | |
6816642197 | My Lai | 1969, US military massacred 200 innocent Vietnamese when they couldn't find Vietcong in My Lai | 25 | |
6816642198 | Kent State University | anti war protest, 1970, National Guard killed 4, wounded 9 | 26 | |
6816642199 | Pentagon Papers | document revealing secret plan for the war kept from American people | 27 |
US History- Vietnam War Flashcards
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