| Term | Definition |
|---|
| United States | The country that had not colonized/conquered Vietnam by the end of WWII |
| Dien Bien Phu | This ended French involvement in Vietnam; it was a balttle the French lost |
| The reason the French went to war with Vietnam | Vietnam was trying to gain independence |
| The reason that Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Vietnam, refused to hold elections | He thought the vote would be a show of support for Ho Chi Minh and Communism |
| The outcome of the Tet Offensive | The Vietcong proved that after a long struggle, whey were still willing to fight and stand strong agianst America |
| 500, 000 | The number of troops that America had in Vietnam in 1968 |
| The reason that the US sent troops to Cambodia | The North Vietnamese and Vietcong were sending supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| Lybia's economic history | It was a poor coountry with little resources |
| President Bush used this to justify the invasion of Iraq | After the invasion, Muammar Qaddafi turned over his weapons of mass destruction program |
| colons | French settlers who lived in Algeria |
| The colonization history of Africa | Europeans knew little about Africa until the 1800's and most ot the African Countries received independence by the late 1800's |
| Nelson Mandela | He is an important person because he became an international symbol for the racial injustices of South Africa |
| genocide | The Hutus killed many Tutis in Rwanda in 1994 |
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