Vocab
The organization that aims to rid Vietnam of foreign rule.
What was Vietnminh?
Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam an independent nation.
What was in September of 1945?
Vietnamese political leader; he became president of South Vietnam in 1955
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
The southern Vietnamese soldiers with whom U.S. troops fought against communism and forces in the North during the Vietnam War.
What was the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)?
In 1954, the French lost the battle and control of Vietnam.
What happened at Dien Bien Phu?
Countries that can fall to communism like dominoes
What was the domino theory?
U.S. begins to aid economic aid France to stop communism
What was in 1950?
Vietnamese revolutionary leader and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
A public distrust of statements made by the government.
What was credibility gap?
A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968.
What was the Tet Offensive?
Called men 18-26 to military service.
What was a draft?
France surrenders
What was in 1954?
American businessman and public official; he was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968.
Who was Robert McNamara?
A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should withdraw from it.
What was a dove?
A 7000-page document - leaked to the press in 1971 by the former Defense Department worker Daniel Ellsberg - revealing that the U.S. government had not been about its intentions in the Vietnam War.`
What were the Pentagon Papers?
Communist group in the South.
What was the Vietcong?
Election to unify Vietnam.
What was in 1956?
Secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; he advised Johnson on U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Who was Dean Rusk?
A person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should use increased military force to win it.
What was a hawk?
More than 200 unarmed citizens, including women and children, were massacred by U.S. troops in 1968.
What happened at My Lai?
A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964.
What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave Lyndon B. Johnson more military powers.
What was in 1964?
American general in the U.S. Army
Who was William Westmoreland?
A name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate, mainstream Americans who quietly supported his Vietnam War policies.
What was silent majority?
An Ohio university where the National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970, wounding nine and killing four.
What was Kent Univeristy?