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HIS 102: FINAL EXAM
Baby boom |
Biggest generation ever |
Limited War |
War that can't be fought hard enough to win
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North Vietnam |
Communist part of Vietnam
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Cambodia, Laos |
Where the Viet Cong can hide |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
President during the Vietnam War
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West Moreland |
American Commander in Vietnam (military advisor to Johnson)
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It would be easy and fast |
What West Moreland told Johnson about Vietnam |
Draft |
Recruiting men to fill army positions |
Go to college |
Easiest way out of the draft |
15 million |
number of people that deferred from the draft |
One year tour of duty |
Amount of time that a soldier spent in Vietnam |
PTSD |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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1968 |
Year that America stopped supporting the war |
Ho Chi Minh |
Leader of Vietnam |
Washington |
Author of the book that Ho Chi Minh read
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Ho Chi Minh |
"You will kill 10 of us, we will kill one of you, and you will tire first." |
Guerilla |
Elusive, runs away |
Helicopter |
New weapon used in Vietnam by US |
The US |
Lost the Vietnam War |
The Battle of the IA Drang Valley |
First big battle in Vietnam |
Body Count |
What mattered in battles in Vietnam
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1% |
Percentage of Search and Destroy Operations that were successful
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January 31, 1968 |
The TET offensive |
McNamara |
Secretary of Defense that said we were going to lose
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Clifford |
Next secretary of defense |
Cronkite |
Flew to Vietnam to look around
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Weinberger Doctrine |
Ronald Raegan; America will only fight wars to win
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Arab-Israeli Wars |
Series of Wars between Arabs and Israelis
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Blitzkrieg |
German way of fighting that America tries to adopt
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Computers and microchips |
Revolution in how America fights
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Afghanistan |
Country that didn't want Russia to be in charge |
Russia |
Tried to establish government in Afghanistan
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Mujahedeen |
Afghan fighters that rose up against the Soviets |
Islam |
Unites the Mujahedeen |
Jihad |
Holy War |
Russia |
The US enemy in the Cold War |
The US |
Joins the Mujahedeen |
Bin Laden |
Leader of Al Qaeda |
Al Qaeda |
Arabic for "The Base" |
Wahhabism |
Type of radical Islam that wants a return to the year 631
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1989 |
Russia is out of Afghanistan |
The US loses interest. Afghanistan becomes the poorest country on Earth |
What happens to Afghanistan after the Mujahedeen is gone?
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Taliban |
Take over Afghanistan after the US leaves them alone |
Saddam Hussein |
Dictator of Iraq (Secular Leader)
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Kuwait |
Has a lot of oil |
Operation Desert Shield |
US troops go to Saudi Arabia |
Operation Desert Storm |
The US invasion of Kuwait |
Carbon Filaments |
The first US bombs dropped on Iraq
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Saddam Hussein |
Bin Laden's enemy |
The US |
Who Saudi Arabia turns to |
Carlos Marighella |
Brazilian Military Theorist (Terror) |
Operation Enduring Freedom |
The Attack in Afghanistan after 9/11 |
Cheney |
VP during 9/11 |
Donald Rumsfeld |
Secretary of Defense during 9/11 |
October 7, 2001 |
The US invades Afghanistan |
Northern Alliance |
Afghan Fighters against the Taliban
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Operation Iraqi Freedom |
US did something or another idk
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Powell |
Secretary of State |
The Invasion of Iraq |
March 21, 2003
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General Buford Blunt |
General the invaded and conquered Baghdad |
Paul Bremmer |
Civilian who thinks he knows better than the military? (Baghdad) |
Israel |
Since WWI, Jews have been moving back to this area |
Palestinians |
Occupied Israel before the Jews started moving back
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Palestinian Refugees |
Palestinians who move somewhere or something idk
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Arafet |
Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization
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Launches terrorist strikes into Israel |
What Arafet does |
Jordanians |
Declared War on the PLO |
Marines |
The US sends the ___ to stand between Israel and the PLO |
Jim Crowe |
The practices and policies that enforced white supremacy |
Mississippi |
First state to guarantee separation |
Poll Tax |
Tax to prevent African Americans from voting |
Homer Plessy |
Challenged the separation in train cars
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One drop rule |
1 ancestor out of 32 black
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Plessy vs Fergusson |
Led to legalization of separation
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The Red Summer |
Race Riots |
Executive Order 8802 |
prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. |
Eastland |
Accused African American soldiers |
Wagner |
Disproved Eastland
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Medgar Evers |
Field Secretary for the NAACP |
Kennard |
USM guy |
James Farmer |
Cofounded CORE |