| A | B |
|---|
| Black separatism | cause of white backlash |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | nonviolent black leader who saw poverty as a major roadblock to freedom |
| France | The U.S. backed this country's takeover of Vietnam after World World II |
| Geneva Conference | Divided Vietnam into two countries and called for free elections in 1956 |
| Domino Theory | belief that if one country fell to communism others would follow |
| Gulf of Tonkin | brought the U.S. into a combat role in Vietnam |
| Escalation | U.S. bombing of North Vietnam in 1965 |
| Cambodia | country secretly bombed by Nixon in 1969 |
| China | country that controlled Vietnam 2000 years ago |
| Ambush | tactic used by the Vietcong |
| Vietcong | South Vietnamese communists |
| Tet Offensive | convinced many Americans that we were not winning the Vietnam war |
| draft dodgers | people who avoided service in the Vietnam War |
| Richard Nixon | claimed that he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam War in 1968 |
| stagflation | combination of high prices and unemployment |
| Harry Truman | blamed for not ending the Korean War by 1952 |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Won the presidency in 1952 because of his popularity as a war hero |
| Korean War | ened as a stalemate |
| Joseph McCarthy | key player in the fear of communsim in the early 1950s |
| Egypt | the U.S. sided with this country in the Suez crisis against its traditional allies |
| Ngo Dinnh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam assassinated in 1963 |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of Communist North Vietnam |
| Joseph Stalin | his death in 1953 improved U.S.-Soviet relations |
| Sputnik | marks the beginning of the space race |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's plan to make the South Vietnamese do more of the fighting and gradually withdraw American forces from Vietnam |
