Power Players
Communist leader in North Vietnam. This leader has a trail and a city named after them.
Ho Chi Minh
These 'temporarily' divided North and South Vietnam with a demilitarised zone (DMZ) at the 17th parallel. Democratic elections were to be held in 1956 to reunite Vietnam.
Geneva Accords 1954
Australia introduced this on the 10th of November, 1964 (under PM Robert Menzies). The idea of this lead to mass non-violent protests in Australia and America.
Consciption
This event in the Vietnam War was televised and had a significant impact on American and Australian's attitudes towards the war.
My Lai Massacre
"Democratic" leader of South Vietnam. Monks famously self-immolated to protest his rule.
President Diem
This was ordered after American Destroyer Maddox was allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats and the Viet Cong attacked the US base at Pleiku.
Operation Rolling Thunder
The idea that if one nation fell to communism, the neighbouring nations would follow in a chain reaction.
Domino Theory
This was the slogan used by Lyndon B. Johnson during his election campaign.
"All the way with LBJ"
This was a form of non-violent protests done by Buddhists against South Vietnamese President Diem.
Self- immolating (lighting themselves on fire)
The Australian Prime Minister that committed Australia to the Vietnam War. He served as Prime Minister from 1949-1966).
Robert Menzies
This was the mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers in a town on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
My Lai Massacre
The US began sending these at the beginning of President Diem's rule in 1955. Kennedy increased the presence of these to 16, 500 in 1963.
Military Advisors
This was the first time that this was used in a major conflict to communicate key events. It was a significant factor in exposing the events of the My Lai Massacre.
Television
The US committed troops to support South Vietnam against Communist North Vietnam in this month of 1965.
March
This American President began the practice of sending 'military advisors' to support the South Vietnamese Government.
President Dwight Eisenhower
An offensive launched in 1968 where the North launched concentrated attacks against every major city and regional centre in South Vietnam. It was televised live.
Tet Offensive
A phrase that originated with the nineteenth century when the gold rush in the US led to the immigration of Chinese and Japanese labourers. Australia’s Gold Rush also saw the immigration of Chinese.
Yellow Peril
This is a type of survey conducted to understand Australian attitudes towards the Vietnam War.
Gallup Polls
The Australian government committed troops to support South Vietnam and America in this month of 1965.
April
This American President who initiated Operation Rolling Thunder and committed American troops to the Vietnam War. Their slogan while campaigning "all the way with them".
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The largest, most sustained non-violent protests in Australia's history which aimed at Australia withdrawing Australian troops from Vietnam and ending conscription.
Moratorium Campaign
The process in which America planned to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
Vietnamization
These were leaked to the press in June of 1971. They revealed that four American administrations had misled the public regarding their intentions and fabricated a request from South Vietnam to Australia for help.
Pentagon Papers
During this year the South Vietnamese government resigned to the North Vietnamese Communists.
1975