Vietnamese Names
The South Vietnamese President in the early part of the Vietnam Conflict.
Who is Ngo Dien Diem?
The Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Who is Robert McNamara?
The name given to many organizations throughout the 1960's that protested the war.
What is The New Left?
Group responsible for the killing of Ngo Dien Diem?
What is the CIA?
The idea that if one country falls into the hands of the communists then other countries around it will follow?
This president came up with this idea?
What is The Domino Theory?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
The Leader of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party and will rule Vietnam until his death in 1969.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The US Commanding General throughout the Vietnam Conflict.
Who is Gen. William Westmoreland?
The acronym SDS.
Founders of the SDS.
What is The Students for a Democratic Society?
Who are Tom Hayden and Al Habor?
Lyndon Johnson defeats this man in the presidential election of 1964.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
The name given to the North Vietnamese supporters of Ho Chi Minh?
Who are the Vietminh?
The North Vietnamese General that defeats the French at Dien Bien Phu.
Who is Vo Nguyen Giap?
The CBS News anchor that reported on the Vietnam Conflict throughout the 1960's.
Who is Walter Cronkite?
The acronym FSM.
This group referred to the financial institutions throughout the country that they believe are making big money from the war as __________.
Who is The Free Speech Movement?
What is The American Machine?
This democrat was willing to run against Johnson in 1968 and risk angering his party. He will win the support of many young people who wanted an end to the Vietnam Conflict.
Who is Eugene McCarthy?
This religious group was mistreated by the South Vietnamese Government?
Who are the Buddhist?
The Chief North Vietnamese negotiator who worked to try and end the Vietnam Conflict.
Who is Le Duc Thou?
Proposed that the US should give the French some Nuclear Bombs to handle their problem in Vietnam.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
President Nixon calls the people who support his policies on the Vietnam Conflict as ____.
What is The Silent Majority?
After this event the number of people supporting the US presence in Vietnam begins to shift dramatically. It can be considered the turning point of the war and the political pressure to find a solution begins to dramatically increase.
What is The Tet Offensive?
The name of the plan designed to win over the South Vietnamese people.
What is The Hearts and Minds campaign?
The Communist General who oversaw the "Re-education Camps in South Vietnam after Americans left Vietnam.
Who is Col. Bui Tin?
He released the Pentagon Papers in the early 1970's.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Referred to as an "American Tragedy" in Time magazine. Story of US soldiers killing women and children in their village in the northern part of South Vietnam.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
Mayor of Chicago in 1968. He was determined to protect the Democratic National Convention from war protesters.
Who is Mayor Richard Daley?
The acronym ARVN.
This group is the official name of this ogranization.
Who is The Army of the Republic of Vietnam?
Who is the South Vietnamese Army?