Vocabulary
- A. Peter Dewey
- French rule
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnam
- Domino Theory
- Dien Bien Phu - May 1954
- Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
- Gemeva Accords, July 1954
- 17th parallel
- Ngo Dinh Diem 1956
- Vietcong - 1957
- National Liberation Front (NFL)
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Buddists
- Gulf of Tonken incident - 1964
- Tonkin Gulf resolution - August
1964
- Operation Rolling thunder
- Barry Goldwater - sen. Arizona
- Republican party candidate for
president
- Robert McNamara - Defense secretary
- Dean Rusk - sec. of state
- George Ball under secretary of
state
- General William Westmoreland
- Napalm
- Agent Orange
- search and destroy missions
- Nguyen Cao Ky
- Credibility gap
- Senator William Fulbright
- New left
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- Free movement
- Tom Hayden - Al Haber
- Green Berets
- Doves
- Hawks
- TET offensive - Jan. 30 - Feb. 24,
1968
- Clark Clifford
- Robert Kennedy
- General Westmoreland
- John Lewis
- Eugene McCarthy
- Racial Violence - April 1968
- Walter Cronkite
- Democratic Naitonal Convention -
August 1968 Chicago
- Hubert Humphrey
- SDS Tom Hayden
- Mayor Richard J. Daley
- Richard Nixon - Republican
- George Wallace
- Vietnamization
- silent majority
- My Lai Massacre - March 1968
- Invasion of Cambodia
- Kent State - May 1970
- Pentagon papers 1970
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Henry Kissinger - president's
advisor
- Le Duc Tho
- Thieu regime
- fall of Saigon
- Khmer Rouge
- War Powers Act
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