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Military opposition to the Japanese occupation of Vietnam organized by Ho Chi Minh in 1941.
Who are the Viet Minh?
Location of the attack on US Naval forces that led to increased military involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
Conflict between the French Colonial forces and the Viet Minh from 1946-1954.
What is the First Indochina War?
1954 Treaty that ended the fighting in Vietnam between the French and Viet Minh and divided the country along the 17th Parallel.
What are the Geneva Accords of 1954?
The official military organization of South Vietnam.
What is the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)?
Vietnamese Communists who acted as guerilla soldiers in South Vietnam to unite Vietnam into a single nation.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Location of a deadly conflict between the Ohio national guard and college students protesting the Vietnam War Draft.
What is Kent State University?
The January 31, 1968 attack on South Vietnam by the NVA and Viet Cong forces.
What is the Tet Offensive?
A military campaign designed to wear down the enemy's strength over time.
What is a war of attrition?
The official military organization of North Vietnam.
What is the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)?
Promised to end the war in Vietnam with honor for American soldiers.
Who is President Richard Nixon?
A Viet Cong supply line that ran through Cambodia.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Richard Nixon's plan for turning over conduct of the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese military while withdrawing United States troops over time.
What is Vietnamization?
The difference between the reality of the war and the Johnson Administration's portrayal of the war in Vietnam.
What is the credibility gap?
A herbicide named for the color of the barrels in which it was stored.
What is Agent Orange?
North Vietnamese radio personality that was used to spread demoralizing propaganda to US troops.
Who is Hanoi Hannah?
The capital city of South Vietnam and location of the US Embassy.
What is Saigon?
This village was destroyed in March 1968 when the US military acted on intelligence that it what a Viet Cong stronghold.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
The purpose of the War Powers Resolution.
What is "to place strict limits on a president's power to engage the U.S. armed forces in hostilities without the authorization of Congress?"
Jellied gasoline used in incendiary bombs in Vietnam.
What is napalm?
Commander of United States forces in Vietnam.
Who is General William Westmoreland?
The capital city of North Vietnam.
What is Hanoi?
This leaked information revealed the deception of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations on the conduct and success of the war in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The belief that if one nation is allowed to fall to communism, the surrounding nations will also become communist.
What is Domino Theory?
Year that the final American troops were withdrawn from Vietnam.
What is 1975?