PEOPLE I
VIETNAMESE NATIONAL HERO, FOUGHT FOR FRENCH INDEPENDENCE
HO CHI MINH
RAN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT IN 1968, ASSASSINATED BY SIRHAN SIRHAN
RFK
IDEA THAT IF ONE NATION IN AN AREA FELL TO COMMUNISM, NATIONS NEXT DOOR WOULD FALL ALSO
DOMINO THEORY
TV ANCHOR WHO BEGAN TO QUESTION U.S. POLICIES IN VIETNAM. HE STATED “more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”
Lt. William Calley ordered this war atrocity wiping out most of the population of a village in Vietnam
MY LAI MASSACRE
SOUTH VIETNAM'S LEADER EARLY IN THE VIETNAM WAR PERIOD, ANTI-COMMUNIST, CORRUPT, CATHOLIC
NGO DINH DIEM
PRESIDENT AFTER NIXON RESIGNS
FORD
BATTLE WHERE THE FRENCH WERE DEFEATED BY THE VIETNAMESE
DIEN BIEN PHU
TOM HAYDEN STARTED THIS GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO OPPOSED THE WAR
SDS "STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY"
STUDENT PROTEST THE INVASION OF CAMBODIA THAT ENDED IN THE DEATHS OF 4 STUDENTS, SHOT BY THE NATIONAL GUARD
KENT STATE MASSACRE
PRESIDENT DURING MOST OF THE VIETNAM WAR ERA, ESCALATED THE WAR
LBJ
ANTI-WAR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN 1968.
McCarthy
FOUGHT FOR COMMUNISM IN SOUTH VIETNAM, BLENDED INTO THE GENERAL POPULATION, USED THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL FOR SUPPLIES
VIET CONG
ATTACKS LAUNCHED BY THE VC ON THEIR NEW YEAR THAT REALLY CHANGED PUBLIC OPINION IN AMERICA ABOUT THE WAR AND THAT THE WAR WAS UNWINNABLE
TET OFFENSIVE
DIEM MOVED SOUTH VIETNAMESE FROM THE COUNTRY SIDE INTO PROTECTIVE AREAS FROM THE VIETCONG. THIS WAS KNOWN AS...
STRATEGIC HAMLET PROGRAM
NIXON'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
KISSINGER
WON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY, LOST TO NIXON
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
THIS GRANTED BROAD MILITARY POWERS IN VIETNAM TO LBJ
GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION
PLAN TO HAVE THE ARMY OF SOUTH VIETNAM GRADUALLY TAKE OVER THE WAR AS THE US WITHDREW. NIXON SAYS IT WILL BRING "PEACE WITH HONOR."
VIETNAMIZATION
FULBRIGHT HEARINGS CONTRIBUTED TO
CREDIBILITY GAP
COMMANDER OF US TROOPS IN SOUTH VIETNAM
WESTMORELAND
THE PENTAGON PAPERS EXPOSED WHICH ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS HAD NOT BEEN HONEST WITH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
JOHNSON'S
CHEMICAL DEFOLIANT USED IN VIETNAM THAT LATER CAUSED MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS
AGENT ORANGE
WHO LEAKED THE PENTAGON PAPERS
ELLSBERG
NICKNAME PRESIDENT NIXON GAVE THE AMERICANS WHO QUIETLY SUPPORTED U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM AND WANTED TO SEE LAW AND ORDER RESTORED.