| A | B |
|---|
| Indochina | French colony that included Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh | Led Vietnamese independence movement, wanted a communist government |
| Japan | Helped Vietnam chase out France, controlled Vietnam during WWII |
| Domino Theory | Ike's beflief that if one nation in S.East Asia fell to communism, nearby nations would also fall |
| Geneva Accords | 1954 - Agreement that temporarily divided Vietnam and called for free elections in 1956 to reunite the nation |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Western style leader of South Vietnam supported by USA (Anti-Vietnam) |
| Vietcong | North Vietnamese Guerilla army |
| NVA | North Vietnamese Army |
| Vietminh | North Vietnamese Army |
| Containment | Reason for US fighting in Vietnam |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | Congress surrenders right to declare war. LBJ uses this to send more troops. |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | Supply line used by NVA/VC to get supplies to South Vietnam - ran through Laos and Cambodia |
| LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson - President that esclated US involvement in Vietnam |
| Search and Destroy | US strategy to find enemy camps and supplies and bomb to bits |
| Guerrilla Warfare | Strategy used by NVA/VC - land mines, hit & run attacks, traps & hiding in the jungle |
| Hawks vs. Doves | Hawks support the war, Doves oppose the war |
| Tet Offensive | NVA/VC goes on the attack against the US and South Vietnam showed that the US was not winning |
| Richard Nixon | Elected president in 1968 - says he has plan to end the war - later bombs/invades Laos and Cambodia - Ends US involvement in 1973 |
| Vietnamization | US troops gradually leave South Vietnam but will continue to supply them |
| Kent State | Four students killed by US National Guard in Anti-War protest |
| Paris Peace Accords | 1973 - US will remove all troops from Vietnam and all US POW's will be returned |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| War Powers Act | Congress says President needs Congressional approval before sending US troops into a conflict |
| Agent Orange/Napalm | Used to kill plants in jungle - so we could see the NVA/VC, this agent caused cancer |
| My Lai Massacre | US soldiers kill entire village of women and children "suspected" of being VC - many sent to jail for this |
| Pacification | US policy of trying to protect South Vietnamese civilians in guarded areas |
| Hubert Humphrey | 1968 Democratic candidate for President, Hawk - lost to Nixon |
| RFK | Robert F. Kennedy - Democratic candidate for President in 1968, Dove assassinated (JFK's little brother) |
| Laos and Cambodia | Bombed by Nixon, eventually fell to communism like Vietnam |
