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| Increased numer of U.S. troops in Vietnam drastically. |
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| Communist oppostion force in the south. Used guerilla war tactics, hit & run ambush tactics, well known knowldege of the jungle, & were able to secretly live among civilians. |
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| Vietcong & tactics they used. |
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| Frustrations of guerilla warfare, harsh jungle conditions & constand failure to win against the enemy. Losing support from those at home. |
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| U.S. troops having trouble with morale, why? |
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| gasoline ased bomb that set fire to the jungle |
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| leaf killing toxic cheical that was sprayed by U.S. planes |
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| conducted by U.S. soldiers - uprooted civilians suspected of ties to the Vietcong, killing thier livestock and burning thier villages. Many innocent people were killed by these missions. |
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| large gap the critics described was happeneing between what the Johnson admisistration was relaying & what was really happening. |
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| innocent civilians were massacred in this small southern vietnam village by U.S. troops under the command of Lt. William Calley Jr. |
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