AP US History -- Vietnam Flashcards
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| 6554942075 | Tonkin Gulf resolution | justification for the US to enter Vietnam | 0 | |
| 6554942076 | William C. Westmoreland | US commander in Vietnam | 1 | |
| 6554942077 | Tet offensive | effort by Americans to retake Hue from the Viet Cong | 2 | |
| 6554942078 | Eugene McCarthy | Minnesota senator who challenged Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries | 3 | |
| 6554942079 | James Earl Ray | assassin who killed Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 | 4 | |
| 6554942080 | Sirhan Sirhan | assassin who killed Robert Kennedy on June 5 | 5 | |
| 6554942081 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Democratic candidate in the election of 1968 | 6 | |
| 6554942082 | George Wallace | American Independent candidate in the election of 1968 | 7 | |
| 6554942083 | Spiro Agnew | Nixon's vice president from Maryland | 8 | |
| 6554942084 | Vietnamization | training South Vietnamese soldiers to replace US forces in the war | 9 | |
| 6554942085 | madman theory | idea that Nixon might do anything to stop the war | 10 | |
| 6554942086 | My Lai Massacre | incident where William Calley ordered the murder of 347 Vietnamese civilians | 11 | |
| 6554942087 | Kent State shootings | incident where the Ohio National Guard opened fire on protesting university students | 12 | |
| 6554942088 | Pentagon Papers | study commissioned by Robert McNamara showing that the US was planning to go into Vietnam long before it did | 13 |