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Truman Doctrine
Promising U.S. support for armed opposition to communists across the globe. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Accords divide Vietnam in half at the 17th parallel -
Geneva Agreements
International Control Commission declares that both North and South Vietnam had failed to comply with the Geneva Agreements. -
Tonkin Resolution
The United States Congress overwhelming approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose communist aggression in Southeast Asia -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The bombing campaign was designed to interdict North Vietnamese transportation routes in the southern part of North Vietnam and slow infiltration of personnel and supplies into South Vietnam -
TetOffensive
when no attacks were suppose to take place a campaign of surprise attacks that were launched against military, civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam -
Us withdrawal of troops
A battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division leaves Saigon in the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. disengagement from the war. There would be 14 more increments in the withdrawal, but the last U.S. troops did not leave until after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war which was defined as the systematic build up of ARVN forces to the point that they could prosecute the war without American support. -
Kent State
President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort. protesters launched a demonstration that included setting fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsmen to the campus -
26th Amendment
United States Constitution bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War -
War Power Act
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress -
South Vietnam surrender
South Vietnamese General Minh told the NVA commander, "I wish to surrender my forces to you." The NVA commander, who's tank had just crashed thru the palace's gate, said back, "you have no forces left to surrender"
