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Leader of the Vietnam overthrow of France
Ho Chi Minh
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States that "If we allow Vietnam to fall to communism, all the other Indo-China countries will fall also."
Eisenhower's Domino Theory
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Battle: Vietnamese forces vs. French
Dien Bien Phu: 55 days with 50k deaths.
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Date the French surrender to Vietnamese forces
May 7, 1954
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The victory at Dien Bien Phu freed these three countries:
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Leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
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Leader of South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
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US organization to support SV
SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
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SV organization against Diem
National Liberation Front
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Our enemies in Vietnam
The Vietcong
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Our destroyer destroyed at the gulf of Tonkin
USS Maddox
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Date of the Gulf of Tonkin attack
Aug. 2, 1964
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Allows president to commit troops to SV and fight war w/o congress declaring or okaying it
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Failed operation expected to destroy the NV forces with bombing
Operation Rolling Thunder
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Two mantras of the Vietcong
- "Fight like a tiger fighting an elephant"
- "Don't strike unless you know you can win."
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Vietcong's biggest two advantages
- Amazing tunnel systems
- Fighting on home turf
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Three US hardships in Vietnam
- leeches
- booby traps
- disease (moist and humid area)
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By 1968: how many US soldiers off to fight?
500k
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By 1968: how many US soldiers dead?
30k
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US group/party against the Vietnam war, wanting peace
"Doves"
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US group/party pro-war (Vietnam)
"Hawks"
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Average age of US soldiers in Vietnam
19 yrs
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Biggest centers of war opposition
Colleges and Universities
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People group/class: Biggest supporters of the war
Working class
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Difference between what the gov't says and what people are seeing on TV
Credibility Gap
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General in charge of US troops in Vietnam
General William Westmoreland
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Totally unexpected attack on US/SV troops. Vietcong easily infiltrated many big cities of SV.
Tet Offensive
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Johnson: Rep. or Dem.?
Democrat
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Month MLKJ was assassinated
April 1968
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Democratic party's new frontrunner (after Johnson steps back)
Robert "Bobby" Kennedy
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Site of Bobby Kennedy's assassination
Ambassador Hotel
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Month Bobby Kennedy was assassinated
June 1968
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College protest where police attacked and beat students
1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago
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Democratic party's new frontrunner (after Kennedy2 was assassinated)
Hubert Humphrey
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Democratic party split in the 1968 election between these two candidates
Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace
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Republican candidate for 1968 election
Richard Nixon
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Democratic candidate for 1968 election
Hubert Humphrey
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Winner of the 1968 election
Richard Nixon
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Nixon was known as a "magician" because...
He'd tell the public one thing to distract them from something bigger.
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Nixon's plan to turn the Vietnam war into N Vietnam v. S Vietnam (get us out of it)
Vietnamization
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Nixon's policy with trying to end the Vietnam war
Peace with Honor
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Nixon secretly ordered a bombing of this place to slow NV supplies
Ho Chi Minh Trail
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While promising the people he was getting us out of the war, Nixon ordered attacks in this country, claiming they were supplying NV
Cambodia
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Date of the Kent State protest (Ohio)
May 4, 1970
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Kent State protest: The Story?
Students were protesting the war, OH nat'l guard called in to contain them, and ended up firing bullets.
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Kent State protest: results
- In 13 seconds, 67 rounds were fired.
- 4 students were killed
- 9 students wounded
- (one of which became paralyzed)
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Jackson State University results (Mississippi)
Two college students killed.
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Year Mylai info was released
1971
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Date of the Mylai incident
March 16. 1968
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Mylai incident: The Story?
US soldiers massacred the Vietnam town of Mylai searching to kill the disguised Vietcong members
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Mylai incident: results
500 people killed, including men, women, children, even babies--through torture, mutilation, stabbing...
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Pentagon Papers: what newspaper got the info?
New York Times
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Pentagon Papers: what is discovered?
- Gov't has been lying.
- - manipulating numbers
- - doing stuff without telling us
- - lying about how a family's soldier died
- - delaying letters and tellling of deaths
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Results of the Vietnam War: US soldiers killed
58k
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Restricts the president's ability to send us to war: he must okay it with Congress.
War Powers Act of 1973
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Nixon's foreign policy: what are the two groups of people in the world?
- Us: democratic
- Them: communists
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Nixon's Realpolitik
Do things in the nation's best intrest, not in the ideology of spreading democracy
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National Security advisor under Nixon; suggests that w should make friends of China and Soviet Union
Henry Kissinger
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How do we open the door of friendship with China?
Ping Pong tournament
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Chinese Primier who has dinner with Nixon
Zhou Enlai
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Reasons we want to have China as a friend (2)
- We want open trade
- To weaken their relationship with SU
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Soviet Union leader who has a meeting with Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
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SALT1: stands for?
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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SALT1: what does it do/what is it? (3 parts)
- (With Soviet Union...)
- its a major step to ending the nuclear arms race
- we start trying to prevent pollution
- we create a joint space program
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