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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Vietnam Campus Chaos US In Vietnam 1968Nixon
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Vietnam was a colony of this European country
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France
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He created the Indo Chinese Communist Party, organized the Vietminh and had a trail named in his honor
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Ho Chi Minh
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Capitol of South Vietnam
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Saigon
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They were officially called the National Liberation Front
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Vietcong or VC
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This French outpost was overrun by the Vietminh in 1954
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Dien Bien Phu
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The most common way to dodge the draft
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Deferment
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Group led by Mario Silvio from the University of California at Berkeley during the 1960s
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Free Speech Movement
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Students at this university protested the 1970 invasion of Cambodia by setting the university’s ROTC building on fire
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Kent State
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Most soldiers fighting in Vietnam were called to fight through the draft. Formally known as what.
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Selective Service Act
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Rioting broke out between police and protestors outside the Democratic National Convention in this city
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Chicago
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The American commander in Vietnam
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General William Westmoreland
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A gelatinous fuel bomb used frequently during the Vietnam conflict.
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Napalm
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Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War
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Robert McNamara
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The public distrust of statements made by the government
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Credibility Gap
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The VC attack on 100 towns and 12 airbases was a military victory for the US but a publicity nightmare
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Tet Offensive
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This Civil Rights leader was assassinated by James Earl Ray
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated by this Palestinian immigrant
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Sirhan
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Richard Nixon defeated him in the 1968 presidential election
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Hubert Humphreys
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He won the Heisman Trophy in 1968
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O.J. Simpson
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This Alabama governor ran on a third-party ticket for President of the United States in 1968
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George Wallace
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He was Nixon’s National Security Advisor
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixon invaded this country on 4-30-1970
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Cambodia
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The exit plan for the Vietnam War was called this. The gradual withdrawal of US troops in order for ARVN troops to take on more of the combat roles
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Vietnamization
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Evil Leader of the Khmer Rouge
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Pol Pot
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The two largest cities in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War
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Hanoi and Haiphong
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