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Vietnam war
Vietnam war: people, places, elections etc.
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History
12th Grade
03/09/2013

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1st american to die in vietnam
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Liutenant Colonel A. Peter Dewey
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Name 3 countries that make up the French Indochina.
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  1. Vietnam 
  2. Laos
  3. Cambodia 
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Leader of the Vietminh
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Ho chi Mihn
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Country that controlled vietnam before WWII
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France
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U.S President that sent economic aid to France.
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Truman
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U.S president worried about Vietnam falling into communism. (Domino Theory)
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Eisenhower
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Battle in which the French were defeated by the Vietminh.
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Dien Bien Phu
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Dividing line between N. And S. Vietnam. And where it was established.
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17th parallel. Geneva accords.
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Capital of North Vietnam
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Hanoi
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Capital of South Vietnam
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Saigon
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President of South Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Communist group in South Vietnam
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Vietcong
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Network of paths along the border of Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Document that gave LBJ the ability to use U.S military troops in Vietnam.
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Military decision that authorized the U.S to begin bombing raids into North Vietnam.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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General who served as the American Commander in South Vietnam.
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William Westmoreland
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Gasoline Bomb
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Napalm
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Leaf-killing toxic chemical
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Agent Orange
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LBJ's secretary of state
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Dean Rusk
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LBJ's secretary of defence
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Robert McNamara
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Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and critic of LBJ
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J. William Fulbright
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Republican Candidate for president in 1964

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Barry Goldwater
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Elite special forces branch of the U.S army
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Green Berets.
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Name of the South Vietnamese Army
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Army of the Republic of Vietnam
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Two countries that supplied the Vietcong with supplies/weapons
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  1. China
  2. Soviet Union
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