Ho Chi Minh- was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam.

Dien Bien Phu-a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Viet Minh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.

Geneva Accords- a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War.

Ngo Dinh Diem- 1901–1963, South Vietnamese statesman: president of the Republic of South Vietnam.

Vietcong-a Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government. supported by North Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution-  gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North

Ho Chi Minh Trail- was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

Napalm-a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. This mixture creates a jelly-like substance that.

Agent Orange-a defoliant chemical used by the US in the Vietnam War.

Credibility Gap-an apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true.

Vietnamization- the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.

Silent Majority-A term used by President Richard Nixon to indicate his belief that the great body of Americans supported his policies 

My Lai Massacre-was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

Kent State University-shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War 

Pentagon Papers-was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, 

War powers Act-allows Congress to limit the President's use of military forces. It states that the President must tell Congress within 48 hours if he sends armed forces anywhere, and Congress must give approval for them to stay there for more than 90 days.

The United States got involved with the Vietnam War because they didn't want South Vietnam to fall to communism.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Johnson the power to expansion of the Vietnam War.

Robert McNamara was a former U.S. Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam War.

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on

April 4,1968.

Bobby Kennedy was shot June 5, 1968. He was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly before winning California presidential primaries.

The Tet Offensive  was a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. (January 30, 1968)

Walter Cronkite helped spread the word by broadcasting important news to the people.His opinion mattered so much because he was best known for being an anchorman on CBS.

The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding.

Hippies during the 1960s where part of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life.

Diggers were people who would help give hippies food, clothes, ect. They were nice giving people.

Many people believed that hippies were all about rebelling, hate but in reality they were all about unity, love, peace, and to stop the war.

Nixon and his advisors developed a new strategy called Vietnamization. The Nixon administration’s Vietnamization plan provided for a gradual, phased withdrawal of American combat forces, combined with an expanded effort to train and equip South Vietnam to take over military responsibility for its own defense.

On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War.

 The most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai in March 1968. This was later known as My Lai Massacre. This sparked a lot of anger with the american people, it also opened up a lot of people's eyes to what actually was happening in the Vietnam War.

March 29, 1973- U.S leaves Vietnam

When U.S soldiers returned home they came back to find the United States torn apart by debate over the Vietnam War. There were no victory parades or welcome-home rallies. Instead, most Vietnam veterans returned to a society that did not seem to care about them, or that seemed to view them with distrust and anger.

During the vietnam war 58,148 were killed and 304,000 wounded

The overall cost of the Vietnam war was $173 billion (equivalent to $770 billion in 2003 dollars.

Nixon's Presidency

1969-1974

-June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee. Located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. This robbery is known as the Watergate Scandal

-On July 27, 1974 Three articles of impeachment are brought against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee: obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and the unconstitutional defiance of its subpoenas. 

-August 8,1974 Nixon resigns the presidency, effective at noon the next day, in a televised address. 

Ford's Presidency

1974 –1977

On this day in 1974, President Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.