People
Places
Countries Important to Vietnam
Terms to Know
Weapons and More
100
President of South Vietnam, assassinated in 1963 during a coup d'etat. BONUS: WHAT IS A COUP D'ETAT?
Ngo Dinh Diem is the president of South Vietnam. ****** BONUS: A coup d'etat is a military overthrow of a government. (the army takes control of the government)***
100
Capital of North Vietnam
Hanoi
100
Vietcong jungle trail that was used to send troops and supplies from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
100
Herbicide (a chemical) used to kill plants in the thick jungle.
Agent Orange
100
U. S. soldiers who fought to clear out Vietcong tunnels.
Tunnel rats
200
Communist revolutionary leader of North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
200
Capital of South Vietnam
Saigon
200
The country that ruled Vietnam for 100 years, sharing their language and culture, until WWII when the Japanese invaded.
France
200
Jelly-like substance that bursts into flames.
Napalm
200
Sharpened bamboo sticks with poison tips used by the VietCong to kill enemy soldiers (they were often placed in streams and tunnels). *****BONUS:WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WEAPONS OF WAR THE THE VIETCONG USED?
Punji Sticks are sharpened sticks used as weapons by the VietCong. *******BONUS: booby traps, poison snakes, rabid bats, water traps, punji sticks.
300
U.S. President 1963-1968 who sent more than 500,000 troops to South Vietnam.
Lyndon Johnson
300
The place that the French lost to the Vietnamese in 1954 and had to leave the country.
Dienbienphu
300
What countries made up Indochina, and who ruled there?
Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (before if was the two countries of North and South Vietnam). France ruled the area, so it was known as French Indochina.
300
The theory that if one country becomes Communist other countries might "fall" also (Communism would spread to new countries).
Domino Theory
300
New Year attack by North Vietnam and VietCong against the South. It was a turning point of the war because US opinion changed.
Tet Offensive
400
U.S. President 1968-1973 promised "Peace with Honor". He increased the amount of bombing while he was involved in peace talks.
Richard Nixon
400
Peace talks took place here.
Paris
400
The country that 100,000 men fled to to avoid the draft in the U.S.
Canada
400
The term used to describe the millions of people who fled by sea from South Vietnam to escape when the new Communist regime took over after the Vietnam War.
Boat People
400
Fighting carried out as hit and run attacks.
Guerrilla war
500
U.S. President 1960-1963 who sent aid and advisors to South Vietnam.
John Kennedy
500
National guard shoot 4 students at this Ohio university during an anti war protest.
Kent State University
500
The country that invaded, and ruled Vietnam during WWII so that the French were no longer in charge.
Japan
500
The name of the war resolution that Congress passed after the North Vietnam attacked the U.S. (Hint: The name of the resolution is also the name of the body of water off the coast of Vietnam where the U.S. destroyer was fired upon.)
Gulf of Tonkin
500
Year US troops leave Vietnam. Year the North Vietnamese takes over and the South loses the war. (Hint: 2 years later)
In March, 1973 the last US troops leave Vietnam. In April 1975 Saigon is invaded by the North, and the South surrenders ending the Vietnam War.
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