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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
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