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Secret U.S. government study of the war which, in part, was critical of it. President Nixon tried to stop their release, but in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected their publication.
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Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam. In fact, much fighting took place here.
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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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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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U.S. policy of turning the war over to South Vietnamese, begun in 1969.
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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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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 pardon, given by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, to most of the 10,000 Vietnam-era draft evaders.
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Vietnamese village where, in 1968, U.S. troops murdered 567 civilian men, women, and children.
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Prison camps set up by victorious Communists for 're-educating' supporters of the South Vietnam government.
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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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Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, U.S. ally during 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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Antiwar lectures in many U.S. colleges and high schools.
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U.S. slang for a particularly odious prison for captured U.S. servicemen
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Sharpened spear hidden in ground, designed to impale unwary U.S. and South Vietnamese troops.
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A defoliant the U.S. sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places. Many U.S. troops claim it gave them cancer and produced birth defects in their children.
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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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