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| guerrilla warfare | a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes |
| flexible response | a plan that used special military units to fight guerrilla wars |
| executive order | a rule issued by a chief executive that has the force of law |
| blockade | cut off an area by means of troops or warships to stop supplies or people from coming in or going out; to close off a country's ports |
| escalate | to increase or expand |
| search-and-destroy mission | a strategy used in Vietnam in which American forces sought Vietcong and North Vietnamese units to destroy them |
| napalm | an explosive material dropped from airplanes during the Vietnam War |
| Agent Orange | a chemical herbicide used to clear jungle growth in the Vietnam War |
| counterculture | a social movement whose values go against those of established society |
| deferment | an excuse, issued by the draft board, that lets a person be excused from military service for various reasons |
| conscientious objector | person who refuses military service on the basis of moral or religious beliefs |
| credibility gap | lack of belief; a term used to describe the lack of trust in the Johnson administration's statement about the Vietnam War |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's policy that called for South Vietnam to take a more active role in fighting the war and for Americans to become less involved |
| martial law | the law applied by military forces in occupied territory or in an emergency |
| MIA | soldiers classified as missing in action |
| Fidel Castro | set up a Communist dictatorship in Cuba and became its leader |
| Bay of Pigs | on the south coast of Cuba |
| Berlin Wall | a wall of concrete blocks with barbed wire along it separating East and West Berlin |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | the navy blockaded Cuba until the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader in Vietnam who fought the French in a long, bloody war |
| Vietcong | National Liberation Front (NLF) |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave President Johnson broad authority to use American forces |
| Tet Offensive | a series of attacks which began on Tet, January 31, 1968, which turned many Americans against the war |
| Robert F. Kennedy | sought the Democratic nomination in 1968 |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | was shot and killed April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Vice President for Johnson, sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1968 |
| George C. Wallace | governor of Alabama and third-party candidate in 1968 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican nominee who offered peace with honor in Vietnam |
| Henry Kissinger | Nixon's national security advisor |
| Pentagon Papers | backed up what many Americans had long believed; the government had not been honest with them |
| respond | to reply |
| occur | to take place |
| trace | follow back to |
| regime | governing authority |
| conduct | to direct the course of |
| exclude | shut out |
| authority | power to decide; power to give orders and make decisions |
| demonstration | a protest march |
