Vietnam War Era: 1955–1975

herbicide containing dioxin, a powerful toxic chemical used in the Vietnam War

movement in the late-1960s during which Americans used protests to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War

system in which there is no privately owned property because all property and goods are owned by the government

theory that the fall of a noncommunist country to communism would cause neighboring noncommunist countries to also fall to communism

group of French-controlled colonies, includingpresent-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

U.S. soldiers in the Special Forces who fought guerrillas

resolution passed by the Senate and House of Representatives in 1964 in response to the Tonkin incident

Vietnamese Communist leader who led Vietnamese forces against foreign nations controlling Vietnam

major military supply route of jungle paths used by North Vietnam to supply troops in the South. It ran through Cambodia and Laos.

college campus where the tragic shootings of students protesting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War occurred in 1970

herbicide program designed to defoliate South Vietnam's jungles, which provided cover and food for the Viet Cong

top-secret study done by the U.S. Defense Department of the country's role in Indochina during World War II

stage actions showing disapproval, such as marches and sit-ins

Richard Nixon's term for the Americans who supported his Vietnam policy and helped elect him president but who weren't politically outspoken

surprise attack by Viet Cong and the North's forces on 13 cities in South Vietnam

group of Vietnamese Communist guerrilla fighters

communist group that led the struggle against foreign control of Vietnam

policy of slowly withdrawing 540,000 U.S. ground troops from Vietnam and transferring control of the war to the South Vietnamese government

law passed by Congress in 1973 to prevent a U.S. president from committing the military in foreign wars