Vietnam part 1
Rich delta of North Vietnam.
What is the Red River Delta?
The league for independence of Vietnam made up of communist and non-communist.
Who are the Vietminh?
Anti-communist president of South Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
The first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
U.S. military raids on South Vietnamese villages to root out the Vietcong.
What is Search & Destroy?
Rich Delta of South Vietnam.
What is the Me Kong Delta?
Battle where the Vietnamese defeated the French (May 7,1954)
What is Dien Bien Phu?
South Vietnamese Communists who opposed Diem’s government.
Who are the Vietcong?
Commander of U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.
Who is William Westmoreland?
Public distrust about statements made by the government.
What is the credibility gap?
Peninsula consisting of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
What is Indochina?
Divided Vietnam at the 17th Parallel
NORTH=Communist
SOUTH=Anti-communist
What is the Geneva Accords?
Network of paths used by North Vietnam to aid the Vietcong.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Killing so many of the enemy that they no longer have the will to fight.
What is attrition?
Youth movement of the 1960’s that demanded changes in American Society.
What is the New Left?
Leader of the movement for independence in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Idea that if a nation in Southeast Asia falls to communism, its neighboring nations will also fall.
What is the domino theory?
A military takeover.
What is a coup?
A gasoline based bomb that sets fire to the jungle.
What is Napalm?
Supporters of the Vietnam War.
Who are hawks?
The Vietnam War was a declared war. All American youths were hippies. The counterculture of the hippies was all about drugs. All of these things are labeled as this.
What are misconceptions of Vietnam?
Divided public opinion, loss of respect for leaders, and tarnished image abroad are all legacies of this.
What were 3 painful legacies of the Vietnam War?
Congress grants Johnson broad military power in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A leaf killing toxic chemical that devastates the landscape.
What is Agent Orange?
Vietnam was a civil war, U.S. could not police the world, and the war was morally unjust were all reasons for this.
What 3 reasons did American’s protest the Vietnam War?