Unit 6c-7 Vocabulary

Haight-Ashbury

• Birthplace of the 1960s counterculture movement, Haight-Ashbury draws a lively, diverse crowd looking to soak up the historic hippie vibe.

SEATO

• The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

Napalm

• A highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.

Domino Theory

• The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

Vietcong

• A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

Doves

• A dove is someone who opposes the use of military pressure to resolve a dispute

Agent Orange

• The military sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange and other tactical herbicides on trees and vegetation during the Vietnam War.

Hawks

• A hawk favors entry into war

War Powers Act

• This is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

Tet Offensive

• The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. This was a turning point for the war

Counter Culture

• A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

Kent State Massacre

• The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State

Pentagon Papers

• The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. This is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam

Vietnamization

• The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.