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conscientious objector
What is people who refuse to participate in war because of a strong belief war is wrong
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Gurrilla
What is a fighter who carries out hit-and-run attacks
100
Lyndon B. Johnson
What is John F. Kennedy's vice president ; in 1963, he became President after Kennedy's assassination
100
Henry Kissinger
What is Nixon's national security adviser
100
Escalate
What is set up
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Gerald Ford
What is Nixon's Vice President; later, l he became President after Nixon's resigned over the Watergate scandal
200
Hawks
What is people who support the war in Vietnam
200
Doves
What is people who believed the Vietnam War could not be won and morally wrong
200
Inflation
What is a steady rise in prices
300
Boat People
What is Vietnamese people who, at the end of the Vietnam war, attempted to escape their country in small boats
300
Napalm
What is a jellylike substance that bursts into flames and sticks into people's bodies
400
Domino Theory
What is the idea that if one country fell to the communists, neighboring countries would follow
400
Jimmy Carter
What is a former governor of Georgia who became President in 1976
400
Ho Chi Minh
What is a communists leader who freed Vietnam from French colonial rule in 1954 and then became ruler of the communists North Vietnam
500
Nago Dinh Diem
What is ruler of South Vietnam; in 1963, he was assassinated by South Vietnam military leaders
500
Richard Nixon
What is a former U.S vice President who was elected to the presidency in 1968 and who finally got the U.S out of the Vietnam War
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