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1962 BCE
The Secret War
a term used in some sources to describe American clandestine involvement in the Laotian Civil War -
Pentagon Papers
the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, -
Dien Bien Phu
was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps -
Geneva Conference
a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ("Blank Check")
were being attacked by North Vietnamese military units in the Gulf of Tonkin, the body of water off the coast of central and North Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division, -
Tet Offensive
was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam. -
My Lai Massacre
a unit of the Americal Division's 11th Infantry Brigade arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam -
Kent State University Massacre
in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, -
War Powers Act
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.
