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U.S. policy of turning the war over to South Vietnamese, begun in 1969.
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A military unit that consists of 11 men and is led by a squad leader. It fights as two fire teams. Each fire team can fire, maneuver, or overwatch.
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Proclaimed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, it committed the U.S. to aid anti-Communist forces anywhere in the world, it is seen as the foundation of U.S. decision to go to war in Vietnam.
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Supply route from North to South Vietnam. Communist troops used this to send weapons, troops, and supplies to the South.
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A 1954 agreement to temporarily divide Vietnam into North and South. They scheduled elections for 1956 to unite the nations under one government. South Vietnam, fearing that Communist leader Ho Chi Minh would win, refused to hold the elections.
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Basic rifle used by U.S. troops in Vietnam.
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Meetings in Paris, France, where U.S., South Vietnam, Vietcong, and North Vietnam sought ways to end the war.
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Students for a Democratic Society, a leftist U.S. student group that played an important role in protesting against the war.
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Guerrilla group formed by Ho Chi Minh after World War II to force the French colonial rulers out of Vietnam.
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Prison camps set up by victorious Communists for 're-educating' supporters of the South Vietnam government.
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Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam. In fact, much fighting took place here.
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Vietnamese village where, in 1968, U.S. troops murdered 567 civilian men, women, and children.
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Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, U.S. ally during the war.
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Major Vietnamese holiday. In January 1968, Communist troops staged fierce attacks all over South Vietnam on the holiday. Though the Communists were forced back, the attack shattered U.S. assurance that the war was going well.
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Vietnamese Communist guerrillas opposed to the government of South Vietnam; also, VC, Victor Charlie or, simply 'Charlie'.
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Refugees who fled Vietnam after the war.
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A military unit that consists of three rifle squads. It has a nine-man headquarters with a platoon leader, platoon sergeant, radiotelephone operator, and two machinegun crews.
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Sharpened spear hidden in ground, designed to impale unwary U.S. and South Vietnamese troops.
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A pardon, given by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, to most of the 10,000 Vietnam-era draft evaders.
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Refers to killing and wounding of student antiwar protesters at Kent State (Ohio) University by National Guard troops on May 4, 1970.
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