Vietnam
During the 60’s and 70’s, we were at war with...
Vietnam
This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel.
the Geneva Accords
Nixon’s special assistant for national security affairs.
Henry Kissenger
Forces made up of N. and S. Vietnamese, but supplied by N. Vietnam.
Vietcong
Policy of improving relations between Russia and China to encourage them to stop supplying N. Vietnam
linkage
The country we bailed out in Vietnam (other than S.Vietnam)
France
This resolution gave Congress’s war powers to the President.
the Gulf of Tonkin
Feared that Vietnam would draw attention away from the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King
Chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs.
Agent Orange
Secretary of State in the late 60’s called in to the Vietnam educational hearings.
Dean Rusk
Where S. Vietnamese civilians were killed by US troops
My Lai
Pres. Johnson refused to order a full scale war b/c he didn’t want them to enter.
China
Democratic candidate assassinated in a California hotel.
Robert Kennedy
Soldiers whose fate was undetermined.
MIA (missing in action)
When professors and students skipped class to discus the war and their opposition to it.
teach-in
Initially, they formed to fight the Japanese
Vietminh
Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution b/c Nixon invaded
Cambodia
American commander in S. Vietnam
William Westmoreland
The monk that set himself on fire did so to protest …
discrimination against Buddhists
Term for America’s non-belief in what the Johnson administration said about the war.
credibility gap
The French withdrew from Indochina due this battle.
Dien Bien Phu
Where the Ohio National Guard fire on college students killing 4 of them.
Kent State
Ngo Dinh Diem was a Catholic and discriminated against.
Buddhists
This gel was a form of gas that would explode and burn on impact.
napalm
Johnson’s secretary of defense
Robert McNamera
A sustained bombing campaign against N. Vietnam.
Operation Rolling Thunder
Located in D.C. it is the memorial to POW’s and MIA’s
the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Where protesters and police clashed in 1968
the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam and giving the S. Vietnamese army a bigger role.
Vietnamization
Irregular troops that blend into the civilian population
guerrillas
This was a victory for the North, but not militarily.
the Tet Offensive
A network of jungle paths by which N. Vietnam sent arms and supplies south.
the Ho Chi Minh Trail
S. Vietnam’s Pres. at the end of the war.
Nguyen Van Thieu
This showed Americans that the government had not been honest with them about Vietnam.
the Pentagon Papers
The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the other countries of SE Asia.
Domino Theory
What ship was "fired on" that caused Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
USS Maddox