Korean War
This was the operational name given to MacArthur's risky landing at Inchon that proved to be largely successful.
What was Operation CHROMITE?
This battle was the testing ground of Huey used in the Search and Destroy campaign.
What was the Battle of Ia Drang Valley?
Just to the east of Inchon, this city is the capital of South Korea.
What is Seoul?
This man commanded the 8th Army shortly before taking over for MacArthur as Supreme Commander of UN forces.
Who was General Matthew Ridgway?
Kennedy authorized the CIA to recruit and train Cuban immigrants to participate this botched invasion.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
At the battle of Osan, this has become the name synonymous with "preparedness" in the US military.
What is Task Force Smith?
This marine strategy focused on the community level and working outward, included the combined action program.
What is Inkspot?
Premier Khrushev and Fidel Castro collaborated to get ballistic nuclear missiles to this country in October of 1962.
What is Cuba?
Who was Robert McNamara?
The name American soldiers call communist fighters that lived and operated within South Vietnam.
What are the Viet Cong (aka VC, Charlie)
In August of 1950, this line was as far south as the North Korean advanced during the war.
What is the Pusan Perimeter?
The was biggest and most widespread mobilization of NVA and VC through South Vietnam that included the Siege of Khe Sanh and the Battle of Hue City.
What was the Tet Offensive?
The armistice signed on July 27, 1953, established a cease-fire as well as this line effectively serving as the political boundary between North and South Korea.
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)?
This man was the first to be put in command of MACV.
Who was General William Westmoreland?
This newspaper published The Pentagon Papers, exposing many concerns about the handling of the Vietnam War including the My Lai massacre.
What is The New York Times?
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir (The Battle of Lake Chianjin)
This was Nixon's plan to be carried out by General Abrams to shift from American to South Vietnamese ownership in the war.
What was Vietnamization?
This gulf, just to the east of North Vietnam, was the site of supposed attacks used by Johnson and McNamara as justification to fully engage militarily.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
This man commanded the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Ia Drang Valley.
Who was LTC Harold "Hal" Moore?
In order to access South Vietnam, the NVA used the Ho Chi Minh trail which ran through Cambodia and this country.
What is Laos?
What is the Gauntlet?
This was the major bombing campaign under Johnson that killed many civilians and started turning the South Vietnamese inhabitants against the Americans.
What was Operation ROLLING THUNDER?
What is the Yalu?
He was the controversial American-backed leader of South Korea during the war.
Who was Syngman Rhee?
This is an American foreign policy delivered at the beginning of the Cold War that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."
What is the Truman Doctrine?