Vocab
The South Vietnamese special fortified villages
strategic hamlets
President Johnson's sustained bombing against North Vietnam was code-named
Rolling Thunder
The use of booby traps and ambushes are know as these tactics
Guerilla tactics
The path that North Vietnam sent arms and supplies to the Viet Cong
Ho Chi Minh trial
President Eisenhower sent hundreds of military advisors to train this group
South Vietnam's army
Ngo Dinh Diem banned this religion, making him widely unpopular
Budhsim
A jellied gasoline that explodes on impact
Napalm
President Kennedy wanted to appear tough on communism because they had already lost the major country of ___
China
Some Vietnamese generals launched a coup and Overthrew Diem on November 1st of
1963
Agent Orange
In March of 1965, President _____ began a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
Johnson
The Vietcong attack a base at Pleiku in February of
1965
This resolution authroized the Presenidnet to be abtl to take any nescafcry measeur to repel any armed attack on the United states and prevent further agression
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 2, 1964, President Johnson announced that North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired upon two American destroyers in the Gulf of ____
Gulf of Tonkin
The New South Vietnamese communists were known as
The Vietcong