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Vietnam War
Vietnam War
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11th Grade
04/19/2010

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Geneva Conference 17th Parallel
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Vietnam Was Divided North and South. Capital=Hanoi North's Communist South Anticommunist=Saigon
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Ho Chi Minh
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North Vietnam Leader
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Vietcong
Definition
hit and run tactics(ambushes booby-traps hiding in jungles terrorism versus civilians
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Eisenhower
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First to give them and this would be expanded by pres.Kennedy. the Feeling was "we must stop the spread of communism in SE Asia"
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Gulf of Tonkin
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pres. could take away necessary steps to stop North's aggression
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Lyndon Johnson
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Halted the Bombing and Hanoi agreed to Peace talk sure held in Paris.
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hawks
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supported war
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Doves
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opposed war
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Escolation
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Military Expansion 500,000 American troops forces were underground troops not just airstrikes
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napalm
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jellied gasoline that explodes and splatters cling to anything that it touches
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Agent orange
Definition
chemical defoliant and strips trees of leaves to find the Vietcong hideing in commander in Vietnam. tells the U.s "that thees an end insight by the end of war"
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TET Offensive
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Vietnam Lunear year
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Robert Mcnamera
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Secretary of Defense for U.S
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Student Defarments
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did not have to serve in the military if the went to college
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