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Vietnam War
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11th Grade
06/21/2012

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Gerald R. Ford before becoming Vice President served in the
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House Of Representatives
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The Vietnamese Lunar Holiday is called
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Tet
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During the Nixon Administration, the draft was replaced by a more equitable system called the
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Lottery
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Pesident Nixon's Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew resigned and was replaced by
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Gerald R. Ford
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President Nixon's purpose for bombing raids into cambodia was to destroy

 

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Vietcong Supply Bases
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Speical Watergate Prosecutor, Archibald Cox was replaced by

 

 

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Leon Jaworski
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Nixons's Attorney General Mitchell was not convicted of _____ during Watergate
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Conspiracy
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John Dean III, a Nixon aid revealed the ______ during the Watergate Hearings
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Taping
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As the longest armed conflict in US History, involvement in Vietnam lasted ______  years
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12
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Nixon tapes revealed he approved
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Cover Up
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August 9 1974 President Richard Milhouse Nixon 37th President
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Resigned
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Only unelected President
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Gerald R. Ford
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After Nixon resigned the new presidents guidelines were laid out within the
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25th Amendment
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President Ford issued a _____ for former President in September 1974
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Pardon
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Vietnam Generation Americans are most recognized group post war as

 

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Baby boomers
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President Johnson was ____ to help out vietnam
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Determined
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Determined to gain control of the conflict, president Johnson met with leaders of Vietnam in
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Hawaii
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In the landslide presidential victory of 1964, Lyndon Johnson defeated
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Barry Goldwater
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President Kennedy and Johnson's Secretary of defense that now reveals Vietnam was a mistake was
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Robert McNamara
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In the Republican Presidential victory of 1968 Richard Nixon defeated

 

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Hubert H. Humphrey
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The total number of United States ground forces involved in the Vietnma conflict totaled over

 

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half a million
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The general in charge of Vietcong military operations during most of the conflict was
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General Giap
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Escalation of the bbombing of North Vietnam in February 1965 was code named
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Rolling Thunder
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SEATO or the southeast asia treaty organization was the work of diplomat
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 John Foster Dulles
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CIA was created by congress during the _______ administration
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truman
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President Johnson's domestic programs were called the ________
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Great Society
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of the 106,000 Draft Evaders that were eligible to return to legal life only ______ thousand applied
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22,000
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Early in 1975 , Congress rejected President Ford's request for 700 million in aid to
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South Vietnam
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carter's first major decision as president was to pardon all remaining Vietnam era
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Draft Evaders
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President Carter supported the struggle for
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Human Rights
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During Vietname, CIA operatives worked under fictitious names of
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Smith and Jones
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy report was titled
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Warren Commission 
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The play about vietnam on Broadyway was titled
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Miss Saigon
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1988 best picture academy award winning movie about Vietnam was
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Platoon
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Stanly Kubrek Directed what movie of Vietnam
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Full Metal Jacket
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The first intermixed Rock band to rise to the top of the charts was 
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Booker T and the MGs
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Gerald R. Ford served on the Committee investigating the assassination of 
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John F. Kennedy
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What future president who was a student in england get involved in protest marches against Vietnam
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President Bill Clinton
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President Clinton granted full ______________ between the US and the Republic of Vietnam
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Diplomatic Relations
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During test, the vietcong were able to break into the protected and wall compound of the 
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US Embassy
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Who was the first US president to visit Vietnam after the conflict
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President Clinton
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The government program to gain support for the Vietnam war effort was called

 

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Operation College Campuses
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US Commander William Westmoreland's strategy for defeating the Vietcong was called
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Search and Destroy
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what was the cost of a B-52 bombing mission during the vietnam conflict
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30,000
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For each 1 dollar of damage inflicted on vietcong, the united states spent
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9 dollars
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Cedar falls was the code name for united states' operations in the
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Iron Triangle
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The 59 teams of the Revolutionary development program were trained in
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Propaganda and Social Services
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US Citizens that favored the war in vietnam were called
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Hawks
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The communist leader of north vietnam until his death in september 1969 was 
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Ho Chi Minh
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US Citizens that opposed the war were referred to as
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Doves
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Muhammad Ali was _______ to US involvement in Vietnam
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Opposed
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Enlisted personnel that protested the war in vietnam that made national news were called the 
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Fort Hood Three
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In 1967 Johnson persuaded Congress to pass a tax on taxes to pay for Vietnam called the 
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Surtax
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Henry Kissinger, then a Harvard Professor, developed a plan to win in Vietnam called 
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San Antonio Formula
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There were over 2000_______ to end the vietnam conflict
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Peace Proposals
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The government plan to lessen and end the protest against the US involvement in Vietnam was 
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Operation Chaos
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The Marines at Khe Sanh held under sige for _____ days 
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77
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The last american ground troops left vietnam on
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March 29, 1973
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Kissinger traveled to ________  for the peace talks to end the War in Vietnam
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Paris, France
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On January 27, 1973 US involvement in Vietnam ended with the signing of a 

 

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Cease Fire Agreement
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Lieutenant William L. Calley was convicted of murder for actions in Vietnam at 
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My Lai
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Four College students were killed by Ohio National Guard during a protest at 
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Kent State University
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On April 30, 1975, the south vietnamese surrendered to the 
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Communist
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President Nixon's Secretary of State for most of the war who also was NSC chief was 
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Henry Kissinger
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president Nixon's Secretary of Defense until 1973 was
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Melvin Laird
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Students demonstrated in 1969 calling for a _______ for the US involvement in Vietnam
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Moratorium
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In 1972 Nixon ordered a blockade of north Vietnamese Ports and the bombing of 
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Northern Railroads
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President Nixon's Policy toward the Vietnam Conflict was called 
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Vietnamization
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On February 10, 1972, President Nixon visited the Communist nation of
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China
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The Houston plan designed by the government called for spying on
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US Citizens
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On January 26, 1971 Charles Manson, even though he did not kill sharon tate, was convicted of
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Murder
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According to Herring, blame for the escalation of the Vietnam conflict is placed on the 
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Executive
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According to Herring, blame for americas withdrawal is placed on the 
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US Military
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Daniel Ellsberg, the compiler of the Pentagon papers was an employee of the 
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US Defense Department
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In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in 1971 that the  _______ could be printed
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Pentagon Papers
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After visiting china in February, Nixon in May of 1972 visited the 
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USSR
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On June 17, 1972, members of Nixon's campaign re-election inner circle broke into the 
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Watergate Complex
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The special prosecutor at the beginning of watergate was
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Archibald Cox
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Nixon's Vice President who was forced to resign because of Kickbacks and tax evasion was
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 Spiro T. Agnew
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The administration at the University of California-Berkeley was accused of destroying students 
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Free Speech
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Student statements of the sixties included 

 

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Groovey, far out, make love not war and we wont go
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The signers of the Paris Peace Accords, 1972 were

 

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USSR, US, Vietnam and China
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The woodstock rock festival was held on a farm in the state of
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New York
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The Berkeley Barb was an underground
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Newspaper
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Jerry Garcia was lead singer for the rock group known for drugs and far out performances called
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Grateful dead
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College students and other partakers of psychedelic enhancements during the sixties preferred 
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Acid or LSD
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Jerry Rubin was a member of the Youth International Party, better known as the 
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Yippies
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During the vietnma era, the counterculture referred to the 
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Youth Movement
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The division of soldiers involved in the My Lai Massacre were members of the 
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Ameri-cal Division
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During the 1968 Democratic Convention held in chicago, as the delegates spoke, the youth outside 
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Revolted
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The act that restricted the Presidents power to wage war passed over Nixon's Veto was the 

 

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War Powers Act
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The Khmer Rouge were communist Guerrillas working mostly in 
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Cambodia
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The Nixon Administration's relationship with the Soviets is called
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De'tente
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Nixon ordered the Christmas bombing of 1972 targeting sites North of the 
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20th Parallel
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During raids from December 18 to December 30th, the United States dropped
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35000 tons of bombs
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To support his efforts for an honorable peace in Vietnam Nixon called on the 
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Silent Majority
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At best the nixon administration's policy in Vietnam could be considered 
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Inconsistent
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According to Herring, the Communist Easter Offensive was to prove Vietnamization a 
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Failure
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The Legacy of Vietnam proved the Domino Theory of the Truman/ Eisenhower era was 
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