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| A defoliant in the US sprayed on jungle areas to remove enemy hiding places. Many US troops claim it gave them cancer and produced birth defects in their children. |
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| A Vietnamese child fathered by a US serviceman in Vietnam. Such children are racial outcasts in Vietnam. |
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| Army of the Republic of south Vietnam. US ally during the war. |
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| US program of counting enemy bodies to measure success or failure of missions. |
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| Hidden explosive device designed to injure the enemy. |
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| Term for young Americans who evaded military service during the war. |
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| Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam. In fact much fighting took place there. |
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| Increasing the scope and intensity of fighting. |
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| US troops' use of hand grenades to kill their own sergeants or officers for the alleged unnecessary risking of soldiers' lives. |
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| Derisive US slang term for Vietnamese |
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| Front line US troops, who had the toughest, most dangerous jobs. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| Congressional authorization given to President Johnson in 1964 allowing increased US military role in Vietnam. |
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| US slang for a particularly odious prison for captured US servicemen. |
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| Supply route from North to South vietnam. Communist6 troops used this to send weapons, troops, and supplies to the South. |
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| Vietnamese peasant home, usually very simple, with a thatched roof. |
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| Vietnamese village where, in 1968, US troops murdered 567 civlian men, women and children. |
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| Post Traumatic Stree Syndrome (PTTS) |
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| Emotional stress suffered by many Vietnam veterans after their return home. |
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| Sharpened stick hidden in ground, designed to impale unwary US and South Vietnamese troops. |
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| Rest and relaxation for US troops |
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| Racially abusive term for Vietnamese used by many US troops. |
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| Major Vietamese holiday In January 1968, Communist troops shocked US and South Viietnamese by staging fierce attacks all over South Vietnam on the Tet holiday. The Communists were forced back, but US confidence is shattered. |
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| Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam |
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| Vietnamese Communist guerrillas opposed to the government of South Vietnam; also VC, Victor Charlie or simple "Charlie." |
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| Vietnamese guerrillas formed by Ho Chi Minh after World War II to force the French colonial rulers out of Vietnam. |
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| US policy of turning the war over to South Vietnamesse, begun in 1969 |
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| Term used by American troops to refer to the US. |
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