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President Nixon’s plan to slowly take U.S. troops out of the Vietnam war.
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president at the end of the Vietnam war and was strongly anti-Communist
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where National guardsmen killed 4 students and injured 9 students that were protesting the Vietnam war
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a 7,000 page document leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg, a Defense Department worker, in 1971. It described how the government was not fully about its intentions for the Vietnam war.
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president at the beginning of the vietnam war
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served as the consultant advisory to both JFK and LBJ; helped Nixon with the détente policy
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A name President Nixon called those who supported the Vietnam war.
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commander of the U.S. Military Assistance
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divided Vietnam on the 17th parallel
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Leader of the Indochinese Communist Party
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South Vietnamese towns and cities were attacked by the Viet Cong, surprisingly, in early 1968.
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Created in 1973, it limited the amount of troops the president could send into battle without consulting Congress first.
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LBJ’s Secretary of Defense after Robert McNamara; agreed with Vietnam policy but believed that the war was “unwinnable.”
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the American destroyer that a North Vietnamese patrol boat fired at
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Congress gave Lyndon B. Johnson the powers to take “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.”
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a village in northern south Vietnam where U.S. troops killed over 200 unarmed civilians in May 1968.
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South Vietnamese Army
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a Communist opposition group in the South
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South Vietnam’s president
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