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Vietnam
Word
Definition
Sentence or picture
Domino Theory
Geneva Accords
Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
Ho Chi Minh
Trail
napalm
agent orange
My Lai massacre
Conscientious
objector
Deferment
Tet Offensive
Doves
Paris Peace
Accords
Pentagon Papers
Vietnamization
26th Amendment
(pg. 573)
Credibility gap
lottery system
Hawks
War Powers Act
MIA
Kent State University
(pg. 566)
a system introduced by the Nixon Administration in 1969, for military draft; cards with all the days of the year were randomly
selected; men whose birthdays were drawn first were drafted first; those who received numbers above a certain cutoff were not
called for the draft were considered eligible for a year; system eliminated college deferments and economics as factors in draft.