Vietnam

We will spending the last few days of class looking at the reasons for US involvement in Vietnam, the fighting and what "winning" meant for both sides, and finally the consequences here at home.

You are responsible the following vocabulary as well as anything discussed in class and the material in the book.

Ho Chi Minh
Vietminh
Vietcong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dien Bien Phu
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Domino Theory
Guerrillas
Operation Rolling Thunder
Napalm
Agent Orange
Ho Chi Minh Trail
General Westmoreland
Credibility Gap
Teach-in
Draft
Hawks and Doves
Tet Offensive
Assassinations, Johnson's announcement, and Democratic Convention
(Why 1968 was a bad year)
Vietnamization
Henry Kissinger
My Lai Massacre
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act

Chapter 16 review

Terms:
court cases
Jim Crow
SCLC
Map locations and events
Rosa Parks
CORE
Southern Manifesto
MLK's background
Crisis in Little Rock
SNCC
Kennedy's position on Civil Rights
March on Washington
Selma - why was it selected
Kerner Commission