| A | B |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave the President the authority to send combat troops into Vietnam. |
| Ho Chi Minh trail | supply line from North Vietnam used to aid the Vietcong. |
| attrition | General Westmoreland's strategy of killing so many of the enemy that they no longer would have the will to fight. |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | code name for the massive bombing of North Vietnam in 1965 |
| Search and Destroy missions | patrols designed to locate Vietcon and kill them. |
| Body counts | daily reports on TV of how many of the enemy had been killed. Method used to claim that progress was being made. |
| William Westmoreland | American General in charge in Vietnam. |
| Charles de Gaulle | French leader who wanted to end the Vietnam War by establisheing a coalition government in South Vietnam was Vietcong representation. |
| ARVN | The army of South Vietnam supported by the U.S. |
| Maddox | American ship that Johnson claimed was attacked, leading him to call for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| escalation | decison by Johnson to increase U.S. intervention in South Vietnam |
| Who claimed there was "light at the end of the tunnel." | General Westmoreland |
