Unit 6c/7 Vocab
Published on Jul 17, 2019
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Haight-Ashbury:
Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, and is known for being the origin of the hippie counterculture.
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SEATO:
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization intended to be a Southeast Asian version of NATO. SEATO was an anti-communist defensive organization that aims to stop the spread of communism.
Napalm:
A highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers. It was used during the Vietnam War to clear the Vietnamese jungles.
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Domino Theory:
The belief during the Vietnam War that if Vietnam falls to communism, other Southeast Asian countries will also be taken over by communism.
Vietcong:
Also known as the National Liberation Front, they were guerrilla fighters that fought for Communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
Authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam
Doves:
People that opposed the Vietnam War.
Agent Orange:
Agent Orange is a herbicide designed to kill trees and was sprayed all over the Vietnamese rainforests to clear the trees.
Hawks:
People that supported the war in Vietnam.
War Powers Act:
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to war without the consent of the Congress.
Tet Offensive:
A surprise attack by the North Vietnam soldiers on cities in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Counter Culture Movement:
The hippie movement that promoted free love, communal living, music, and drug use.
Kent State Massacre:
The shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia.
Pentagon Papers:
Documents that verified the government had lied about the Vietnam War.
Vietnamization:
The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh:
The communist leader of North Vietnam.
Diem:
Ngo Dinh Diem, the corrupt Vietnamese President of South Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson:
The President that ended up involving the United States in the Vietnam War.
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