GoBuffs: Dazaef Cabral

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  1. 4. a 1973 diplomatic agreement signed by the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong to officially end direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam Wa
  2. 7. a top-secret U.S. Department of Defense study that documented the political and military involvement of the United States in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967
  3. 8. a potent chemical herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War
  4. 9. a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état
  5. 15. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
  6. 18. the federal law that authorizes the U.S. government to maintain a database of individuals eligible for a military draft
  7. 20. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961
  8. 21. an American who opposed the war and advocated for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and a peaceful resolution
  9. 23. a progressive, multi-issue student organization. Originally famous as the leading force of the 1960s "New Left" anti-war and civil rights movement, the group was refounded in 2006 to advocate for economic justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and opposition to U.S. military intervention
  10. 26. it combined protracted guerrilla tactics with political mobilization and conventional set-piece battles, ultimately designed to exhaust better-equipped foreign adversaries—like France and the United States—until they abandoned their imperial and interventionist goals
  11. 27. a disparity or disconnect between what an authority (such as a politician, institution, or corporation) publicly claims and the evident reality of a situation. It describes a loss of public trust that occurs when people are repeatedly told one thing but perceive or discover another
  12. 29. a massive and initially secret aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States between 1965 and 1973
  13. 30. Chicago hosted the most recent Democratic National Convention (DNC) from August 19 through August 22, 2024. The primary events took place at the United Center (the evening program) and McCormick Place (daytime party business and delegate meetings)
  14. 32. a strategy enacted by the Nixon administration in 1969 to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
  15. 33. a 1964 joint resolution passed by the U.S. Congress that authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use conventional military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war
  16. 34. a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnam from March 2, 1965, to November 2, 1968, during the Vietnam War
  17. 35. lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18 years old in all federal, state, and local elections
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  1. 1. a form of unconventional combat in which small, mobile groups of irregular fighters—such as rebels or armed civilians—use hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, and sabotage to harass and weaken a larger, traditional military force
  2. 2. the hardline political and military figures during the Cold War who championed aggressive
  3. 3. refers to an unspecified, large group of people in a country or population who do not publicly express their opinions, often contrasting with a more vocal, active, or radical minority
  4. 5. served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968
  5. 6. synonymous with the tragic May 4, 1970 shootings, a watershed moment that intensified national divisions over the Vietnam War and catalyzed the largest student strike in American history
  6. 10. The U.S. military used approximately 352,000 to 388,000 tons of napalm bombs in the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1973
  7. 11. was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War
  8. 12. The Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Maryland governor Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Edmund Muskie and the American Independent Party ticket of former Alabama governor George Wallace and general Curtis LeMay.
  9. 13. the mass murder of over 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Army soldiers on March 16, 1968. Occurring during the Vietnam War, the atrocities included rape, torture, and executions in the hamlet of My Lai 4
  10. 14. a United States Army general, most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968
  11. 16. a massive, coordinated surprise attack launched by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in late January 1968
  12. 17. the capture of South Vietnam's capital by the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975
  13. 19. a Cold War-era political theory stating that if one country in a region falls to communism, its neighboring countries will inevitably follow, collapsing like a row of falling dominoes
  14. 22. someone who strongly supported the U.S. war effort
  15. 24. the largest country in Western Europe
  16. 25. a communist-led political organization and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought against the South Vietnamese government and the United States during the Vietnam War
  17. 28. a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945
  18. 31. served as President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary of Defense from March 1968 to January 1969