Ho Chi Minh: leader of Indochinese Communist Party

Dien Bien Phu: where Vietnam overran French outpost

Geneva Accords: temporarily divided Vietnam along 17th parallel

Ngo Dinh Diem: South Vietnam's anti-communist president

Vietcong: Southern communist opposition group

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: authorized LBJ to take necessary measures to retaliate

Ho Chi Minh Trail: Ho Chi Minh supplied arms to Vietcong group on this trail

Napalm: a gasoline-based bomb

Agent Orange: a leaf-killing toxic chemical

Credibility Gap: difference between what the Johnson administration was reporting and what really happened

Vietnamization: Nixon's idea to end US involvement in Vietnam War

Silent Majority: Americans who supported US efforts in Vietnam

My Lai Massacre: 200 innocent Vietnamese citizens who lived in My Lai were killed by US platoon on March 16, 1968

Kent State University: massive student protest that led to four people being killed

Pentagon Papers: proved that LBJ was lying about his intentions with the Vietnam War

War Powers Act: President must inform Congress within 48 hours of sending forces into hostile area without declaration of war

Why did the US get involved? To prevent the spread of communism

Who was Robert McNamara? 8th secretary of defense, served during the war

What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution give Johnson the power to do? Allowed President Johnson to take any steps that he knew needed to be done to promote security of worldwide peace and safety in southeast Asia.

What was fighting like in Vietnam compared to other wars? It was a civil war before the US intruded

Why did the Tet Offensive change the public perception of the war? America's people gave up belief that there was a way to win the war.

MLK Assassination

*April 4th, 1968

*James Earl Ray shot him while he was standing on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis

Bobby Kennedy's Assassination

*June 5th, 1968

*Shot after winning California presidential campaign

*Died next day in hospital, conspiracy theory

Tet Offensive

*January 30th, 1968 - September 23rd, 1968

*Largest military campaigns of Vietnam War

*VietCong vs. South Vietnamese Army

What was Nixon’s strategy on Vietnam? Vietnamization

What happened at Kent State? Students killed by National Guard due to violent protests

What was the trial surrounding the My Lai Massacre so significant? Trial was hidden from public

When did the U.S. leave Vietnam?  March 29th, 1973

How were soldiers treated when they arrived home? Treated as lesser of a human

How many people died and were wounded in Vietnam?  Approximately 58,000

How much money did the U.S. spend? More than $173 billion

What is a hippie? Someone who refuses to conform to society and customs of American ways.

Drug Use- LSD, marijuana, and shrooms were popular during the time period

Politics- assassination of MLK and Bobby Kennedy, Cold War, Missile Crisis

Civil Rights Movement- fighting for equal rights and no segregation between whites and blacks

July 1954- Geneva Accords signed

August 2, 1964- Gulf of Tonkin Incident

August 10,1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed

Jan 30, 1968- Tet Offensive

March 16, 1968- My Lai Massace