| A | B |
|---|
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader who led forces by the North vietnamese |
| Robert MacNamara | Secretary of Defense |
| Doves & Hawks | Doves are people who appose war or war like policies, a hawk would be people who advocate war or warlike policies |
| Eugene McCarthy | Democratic Senator |
| John Glenn | first, american, man to orbit the Earth |
| counterclture | a social movement who's values go against those of established society |
| Burning draft cards | A type of protest to stop the draft |
| William Westmoreland | Amercan General who requested more troops |
| Robert Kennedy | Attorney General during his brother's presidency and now the senator of New York |
| Kent State University | Where students burned a military base on campus & guards opened fire |
| Green Berets | Special forces trained to fight guerrilla Warfare |
| Executive Order | A rule issued by the Chief Executive |
| Berlin Wall | A wall that cut communication from East & West Berlin |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | French Educated South Vietnamese leader |
| Domino Theory | If Vietnam fell to communism every country around it would to |
| New Left | Activists who shared ideas of protesting on campuses around the country |
| Pentagon Protest | When 50,000 people marched to the pentagon tp protest the war & the draft |
| U.S.S. Pueblo | A navy spy ship cruising in international waters off the coast of Korea, was siezed |
| Vietnam Veteran Memorial | A polished black granite wall in the shape of a privates stripes |
| Guerrilla Warfare | Fighting in small bands using tactics such as sudden ambushes |
| Peace Corps | An organization created by Executive Order |
| Coup | To overthrow a government |
| Agent Orange | A herbicide, believed to have contaminated Americans & Vietnamese |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | Where Kennedy refuse American air support |
| Tet | Vietnamese New year |
| Vietnamization | South vietnam to take a more active role in fighting the war |
