Personalities
Critical Incidents
Strategies and Tactics
The Aftermath
Key Groups
100

Champion of North Vietnam whose aim was for a united independent nation of Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

100

In 1954, this nautical 'event' gave rise to America sending troops on the ground in Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin incident

100

The chemical used as a defoliant by the US forces on Vietnamese forests and jungles.

Agent Orange

100

On 27th January 1973, this document was signed and a ceasefire came into effect with the US agreeing to withdraw all remaining ground forces.

The Paris Peace Accords

100

People seeking the right to govern themselves

Nationalists

200

Military leader whose strategies defeated the might of the United States in Vietnam.

General Giap

200

Photographs published showing the mass deaths of civilians in reprisal for US deaths in 1969.

My Lai Massacre

200

The US strategy of withdrawing troops whilst preparing the South Vietnamese military to take control

Vietnamisation

200

The Khmer Rouge came to power in this country and, in one of the most brutal political experiments, killed 1.7 million people.

Cambodia

200

The South Vietnamese military 

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

300

US President who ran with the idea of the Domino Theory in its opposition to Communism in the 1950's.

Dwight  D Eisenhower

300

After the French forces surrendered this Conference created the demilitarised zone at the 17th parallel.

The Geneva Conference

300

When the South Vietnamese and US troops rounded up civilians to live in specific areas to avoid infiltration by the Viet Cong.

Strategic hamlets

300

The US event which saw about 500,000 people demonstrating against involvement in the Vietnam War. 

The Moratorium Marches

300

The unofficial name of the Communist Party of Kampuchea

Khmer Rouge

400

Leader of South Vietnam who refused to conduct an election in 1956 for fear he would lose.

Ngo Dinh Diem

400

A traditional-style attack initiated by the North Vietnamese Army in 1968.

The Tet Offensive

400

Hit and run attacks, use of tunnels, small groups with minimal equipment are all aspects of this type of warfare.

Guerrilla warfare

400

80,000 of these arrived in Australia at the end of the Vietnam War between 1975-85

Refugees

400

The Communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam

Viet Cong

500

US Secretary of Defence during the Tonkin Incident despite later saying, "It hadn't occured but that's irrelevant.."

Robert McNamara

500

The year an ARVN force invaded Laos in a operation known as Lam Son 719.

1971

500

A gradual and sustained aerial bombing campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division between 1965 and 1968.

Operation Rolling Thumder

500

In 1973 this legislation stripped the President  of his powers to use the US military without congressional approval.

War Powers Resolution Act

500

Laos' communist movement allied to North Vietnam

Pathet Lao

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