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World History Study Guide from 1648 (view source)
Revision as of 21:09, December 4, 2011
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|[[Korematsu v. United States]]
|[[Korematsu v. United States]]
|1944 Case involving the forcing of Japanese Americans to move into interment camps during WWII; the Court sided with the government, ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional
|1944 Case involving the forcing of Japanese Americans to move into interment camps during WWII; the Court sided with the government, ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional
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|domino effect
|the effect when one nation fell to communism, then its neighboring nations became more likely to fall to communism too
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|Ho Chi Minh
|a communist, nationalist leader of North Vietnam who defeated the weakened Japanese there in 1945, obtained freedom from the French, and then sought to make South Vietnam communist too
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|Ngo Dinh Diem
|An unpopular leader of the free South Vietnam until 1963, when he was overthrown by generals who had been supported by the U.S.
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|Vietcong
|communist insurgents in South Vietnam in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War
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|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
|August 1964: in response to mysterious gunshots fired at an American ship in the Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam, Congress authorized sending troops; Congress never formally declared war on North Vietnam, and this Resolution became the substitute
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|Vietnamization
|U.S. President Nixon’s policy for slowly withdrawing American troops from South Vietnam, hoping that the South Vietnamese would do more themselves in fighting communism.
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|Henry Kissinger
|an adviser who ran the foreign policies of U.S. Presidents Nixon and Ford, and who mishandled the Vietnam War to a humiliating conclusion for the U.S.
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|Vietnam War
|1964-1975: an unsuccessful attempt by the United States to prevent the fall of Vietnam to communism
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|Pol Pot
|ruled Cambodia in 1975-1979 as the leader of the Khmer Rouge government; he abolished private property, money and religion, and caused many deaths; the U.S. was blamed for once supporting him as a counterweight to nearby communist Vietnam
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