Vietnam War
The alleged attack on two American destroyers near the Vietnamese coast that led to America joining the war
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The religion Ngo Dinh Diem followed
Catholicism
This major battle between the French and Viet Minh led to the Vietnamese being allowed entrance into the conference.
The American organisation involved in Vietnam initially supporting the Viet Minh against the Japanese.
The OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
Richard Nixon's policy to gradually replace American troops in Vietnam with local Vietnamese ones
Vietnamization
These policies of the Diem regime increased communist support in the State of Vietnam and made America's government concerned about the southern regime. (name at least 3)
Raiding villages, torturing innocents, 'land reforms' (returning land from peasants to landlords) government corruption/nepotism, arrest of political prisoners, and abolition of the traditional democratic model of local village leadership.
The 17th parallel.
The fall of this city to Viet Cong forces marked the end of the Vietnam War
Saigon
Ngo Dinh Diem ousted this political figure, the head of state of south Vietnam, to become president
Emperor Bảo Đại
The two countries involved in the conference which were the greatest obstacles to an agreement being reached
USA and south Vietnam
These documents, leaked by an American military analyst, revealed to the public that the military had known since before the Vietnam War that involvement was a bad idea.
The Pentagon Papers.
This chemical weapon, produced by New Zealand and given to the USA, was used extensively in Vietnam during the 1960s
Agent Orange
Once during a press conference at his ranch, when Lyndon B. Johnson was asked why America was getting involved in Nam, he showed this body part of his as an answer.
His Johnson: He unzipped, pulled out “Jumbo” and said, “THIS is why!”
These noises were played by American forces in the Vietnamese jungle as attempted psychological warfare
Ghost noises. See Operation Wandering Soul