| A | B |
|---|
| 38th Parallel | Korea divided along this line after WWII. Soviets in North and Western Powers in South. Still split at this line today. |
| 2 million | Number of peopled killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia |
| Ho Chi Minh | Nationalist leader who fought to drive French out of Vietnam |
| domino theory | Theory that one nation after another in SE asia would fall to communism |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Anti-communist leader in South Vietnam |
| Vietcong | Communist guerrillas who hated Diem. Attacked S. Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| Ho Chi Minh City | New name for Saigon after communist takeover. |
| Khmer Rouge | Brutal communist government in Cambodia under Pol Pot |
| reeducation camps | place where Vietnamese were trained in Communist thought |
| Kim Jong Il | Present dictator of N. Korea - son of former dictator |
| Vietminh (Independence) League | Ho founded this league to try to gain control of Vietnam after WWII |
| 17 parallel | Demarcation line between N and S Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | Gradual withdrawl of U.S. troops from Vietnam and replacement with S. Vietnamese forces |
| Inchon | US amphibious landing to split North Korean troops |
| Pusan | Only region not taken by the North before U.N. fights back |
| June 25, 1950 | North Koreans attack South Korea |
| Kim Il Sung | North Korean Communit dictator during the Korean war. |
| MacArthur | Proposed to used the A bomb on North Korea and was removed from command |
| China | Sent 300,000 troops to help N.Korea |
| 4 million | Number of dead due to the Korean conflict. |
| French Indochina | Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
| Dien Bien Phu | Place where Vietnamese defeat the French under Ho Chi Minh |
| Boat people | Name given to the 200,000 Vietnamese who left country via boat after Communist takeover |
| 1973 | U.S. withdraws troops from Vietnam |
| Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia | Countries bombed by U.S. during the Vietnam war. |
| 1.5 Million vietnamese, 58,000 U.S. | Number dead due to the Vietnam war |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. general in charge of U.N. troops during the Korean war |
