A | B |
Vietnamization | Nixon |
War Powers Act | Passed in 1973 to limit the powers of the president to declare war. |
Cambodia | Country by Vietnam that was also affected by the war |
Berlin Wall | Build to prevent people from East Berlin migrating to the west. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | The U.S. president that made the largest military commitment in Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam durin the Vietnam War |
Geneva Accords | Agreement beween the Viet Minh and France in 1954. Divided Vietnam into North and South |
domino theory | The idea that states if one nation fall to Communism them all neighboring nations will follow |
Cuban Missile Crisis | Occurred because th Soviet Union installed missiles in Cuba and the U.S. objected |
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave the jpresident the power to use military force in Vietnam |
guerilla warfare | Surprise attacks by small bands of fighters. |
President John F. Kennedy | President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion |
Agent Orange | A chemical that kills plants |
Ho Chi Mihn Trail | North Vietnam sent supplies and soldiers along this network of paths to help the Viet Cong take over South Vietnam and reunite it uner Communist rule with North Vietnam |
Search and destroy missions | Method |
Bay of Pigs Invasion | U.S. supported Cuban exiles planned to overthrow Cuba's Communist leader, Fidel Castro |
Richard Nixon | President |