| Term | Definition |
|---|
| North Vietnam comunist leader | Ho Chi Minh |
| stoping communism from spreading | containment |
| when one country falls to communism others follow | Domino Theory |
| U.S. bobming campaign towards North Vietnam | Operation rolling thunder |
| surprise attacks to ambush small groups undercover | Guerilla warefare |
| who was the south vietnam leader who was currupt | Diem |
| 100's of surprise attacks on South Vietnam from communist North | Tet Offensive |
| who was running in the 1968 election | Humphry, kennedy, McCarthy |
| Who was Nixons greates threat? | George Wallace |
| What is the SDS | Students for a Democratic Society- New Left- Sweeping changes in society was a good thing and they wanted to persue it |
| winner of 1968 election | Nixon |
| 3 ways to resist the draft? | children, college, health/mental problems, and religious beliefs |
| hawks vs doves | hawks- pro-war doves- anti-war |
| Kent state | protesting ROTC building and set on fire and vandalized property... students died |
| Jackson state | outbreak of vandalism in downtown area, 500 nat guard troops called to help, so violence brok out |
| Why was the Vietnam war called the "living room war"? | The media brought the war to poeples homes |
| How many American lives were lost in the war | about 58,000 |
| Vietnmaization | Nixon- administration equipped and trained South Vietnam army |
| ARVN | Army of Republic South Vietnam |
| Paris peace talks | N.V. finally agreed to negotiate after being bombed by Nixon to foce them in to negotiation |
| MADman theory | nixon watned N.V to think that he was crazy and anti-communist enough to use nuclear weapons |
| Fall of Saigon | end of vietnam war when America left but they broke cease fire- fought for two more years and fell to communism |
| how much did America spend on the war? | $150 billion |
| How did America feel after the war? | confidence and optimism shattered |
| My Lai Massacre | Nov 1969- U.S. ordered by Calley killed350 vietnamese civilians- shocked America |
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