| A | B |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | congressional act giving the President nearly complete control over United States military actions in Vietnam |
| Tet Offensive | major Viet Cong attack on towns, cities, and American bases throughout South Vietnam |
| My Lai massacre | incident in which American troops killed from 175 to 400 Vietnamese villagers |
| domino theory | the fear that if one nation falls to communism, its neighbors will soon follow |
| Vietnamization | policy of replacing American forces with South Vietnamese soldiers |
| escalation | In 1964, President Johnson began a military ___________, or expansion of American involvement, in the Vietnam War. |
| teach-ins | College professors held _________ in which they expressed opinions about the Vietnam War. |
| conscientious objectors | Young men who opposed fighting in a war on moral or religious grounds were |
| deferment | College students could postpone being drafted into miliatary service by getting a(n) ___________ |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | Troops and supplies poured into South Vietnam from the North via the ______________, a supply route that passed through Laos and Cambodia. |
| Richard Nixon | winner of the 1968 election |
| Mario Savio | led the Free Speech Movement |
| Robert McNamara | left the Johnson administration to head the World Bank |
| African Americans | served in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam |
| draft | system that calls up citizens for military service |
| Tom Hayden | founded Students for a Democratic Society |
| hawk | favored a stronger military force in Vietnam |
| dove | advocated U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam |
| Clark Clifford | chosen to replace Robert McNamara as secretary of defense |
| Hubert Humphrey | nominated for president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention |
| Eugene McCarthy | gained popularity in the weeks following the Tet Offensive and received 42 percent of the vote in the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | slim margin of victory in the 1968 New Hampshire primary was viewed as a defeat |
| George Wallace | ran in the 1968 presidential election as a third-party candidate |
| credibility gap | the worsening state of the U.S. economy, and the Fulbright hearing helped increase thi |
| Agent Orange | The U.S. military used planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic chemical |
| Dean Rusk | As secretary of state in the Johnson administration, he argued for U.S. escalation in Vietnam, claiming that abandoning the South Vietnamese would cause "disaster for peace" |
| napalm | To expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, U.S. panes dropped this gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles |
| search-and-destroy missions | these resulted in the uprooting of Vietnamese villagers |
| William Westmoreland | U.S commander in South Vietnam |
