A standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions.

Not conforming to accepted standards of morality.

Resolution that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort.

President Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam.

37th president, he advocated "Vietnamization" known for Watergate scandal and became first and only president to resign.

A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam.

1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam.

A herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas.

A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War.

A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam.

The 1962 confrontation between U.S. and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.

A member of a class of persons who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.

A zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited.

To end the rule of; to defeat, often by using force.

A small, fast, lightly armored but heavily armed warship.

A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile.

Wet land on which rice is grown.

Americans who opposed the Vietnam War.

Americans who supported the Vietnam War.

Changed the legal voting age from 21 to 18.