A | B |
guerrilla warfare | The Viet Cong successfully used this against Americans |
Agent Orange | This killed jungle plants, allowing U.S. forces to observe the enemy's location and movement |
William Westmoreland | commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam |
napalm | jellied gasoline dropped from planes to wipe out Viet Cong bases |
Tet offensive | raised doubts in America about U.S. involvement and turning point of the war |
escalation | main U.S. military policy for Vietnam until replaced |
Cambodia | Nixon expanded the fighting by bombing this nation |
domino theory | if one nation falls to Communism, others will follow |
Vietnamization | gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces while turning over the fight to the South Vietnamese |