| A | B |
|---|
| Berlin Wall | physical symbol of communist repression |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | CIA trained Cuban exiles to fight Castro's army |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave Johnson power to do what he wanted in Vietnam with no financial or time limits |
| Tet Offensive | Prior to this most Americans supported the Vietnam War |
| Green Berets | JFK's special forces unit designed to fight guerrilla warfare |
| National Liberation Front | Official name of the Viet Cong |
| silent majority | Nixon's word for the non-protesters who still believed in their government |
| napalm | incendiary chemical used by the U.S. to burn villages in Vietnam |
| agent orange | chemical defoliant used the the U.S. to drop leaves from jungle trees in Vietnam |
| escalation | increasing the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam |
| Domino Theory | Belief that if one nation in East Asia falls to communism, they will all fall |
| conscientious objector | one who believes that killing is always wrong, even in self defense and times of war |
| U.S.S. Pueblo | U.S. ship captured by North Korea |
| Peace with Honor | 3-part plan promised by Nixon to get us out of Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | removing U.S. troops from Vietnam while replacing them with South Vietnamese troops |
| flexibile response | JFK's plan to develop special forces units to deal with guerrilla warfare |
| Robert McNamara | President Johnson's secretary of state |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Leader of South Vietnam until 1963 |
| 58,000 | number of Americans killed in Vietnam |
