objective 11.04 identify the causes of the united states involvement in vietnam and examine how this...
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Objective 11.04
Identify the causes of the United States Involvement in Vietnam and examine how this involvement affected society
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Tet Offensive
• Vietcong offensive against the cities of South Vietnam in 1968/turning point in US public opinion against the war.
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Robert McNamara
• Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• North Vietnam attacks a US ship off the coast of Hanoi/ President Johnson asks Congress for the authority to respond/ Congressional approval leads to US active military involvement in Vietnam
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War Powers Act of 1973
• Passed after the Vietnam War/limited a Presidents authority to wage war without Congressional approval
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Ho Chi Minh
• Leader of Communist North Vietnam
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My Lai Incident
• Lieutenant William Calley leads a raid against the village at My Lai killing aprox. 200 civilians
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Agent Orange
• Defoliant/ used to eliminate the jungle to take away the hiding places of the Vietcong/ caused birth defects in children and cancer
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Napalm
• Gas bomb used to destroy the jungle hiding places of the Vietcong
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Vietcong
• South Vietnamese Communist sympathizers
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Pentagon Papers
• Papers released by Daniel Ellsberg describing lies told by President Johnson during the Vietnam conflict/President Nixon tried to block their release on reasons of National Security/ NY Times v. Nixon
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26th Amendment
• 18 year olds the right to vote
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General William Westmoreland
• Commander of UN forces in Vietnam
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Kent State
• University where anti-war demonstration turns violent when National Guard opens fire on the crowd
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Cambodia/Laos
• Countries that border Vietnam that were bombed by President Nixon for aiding and supplying the Vietcong
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Operation Rolling Thunder
• 8 week strategy of bombing Hanoi and other North Vietnamese targets to destroy North Vietnam’s economy and ability to supply the Vietcong
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Paris Peace Accords
• Meetings between Henry Kissinger and Lo Duc Tho between 1969 and 1975 leading to the end of US participation in Vietnam
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Fall of Saigon 1975
• April 30, 1975 North Vietnamese overrun the South Vietnamese capital