| A | B |
|---|
| escalation | Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson's policy of increasing US involvement in the Vietnam War |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | a Vietcong supply network that led from North Vietnam, through Laos and Cambodia, to South Vietnam |
| Dien Bien Phu | a village where the Vietminh trapped 13,000 french troops |
| Geneva Accords | agreement that temporarily divided Vietnam into North and South Vietnam and called for free elections in 1956 to reunite the country |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave President Johnson power to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States |
| Vietcong | Communist guerrilla force that fought against the government of S. Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | policy followed by the Nixon administration of gradually turning over all the fighting in the Vietnam War to the south Vietnamese Army |
| Tet Offensive | attack by North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops against S. Vietnam during the Vietnam War; took place during Tet (new year in Vietnamese) and demonstrated that the N. Vietnamese were still militarily strong |
| draft evaders | escaped from US to Canada...did not want to go to war |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of N. Vietnam---fought French rule---believed in communist revolution |
| hawks | Americans who pushed for increased military spending and involvement in the Vietnam War |
| doves | Americans who wanted the US to withdraw from the Vietnam War |
| anti-war protesters | people against US in Vietnam |
| Pentagon Papers | lies published in paper |
| Nixon Doctrine | xxxx |
| War Powers Act | legislation that required the president to get Congressional approval before committing US troops to an armed struggle |
| 26th Amendment | lowered the fedral age of voting from 21 to age 18 |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | a series of air strikes launched by the US during the Vietnam War to destroy North Vietnam's war industries |
| Henry Kissinger | Secretary of State/secret negotiation/created a policy to bring peace with honor (vietnamization) |
| POWS/MIAS | prisoners of war/missing in action |
| My Lai Massacre | When american soldiers killed more than 400 vietnamese civilians |
| Saigon | capitol south vietnam |
| Paris Peace Accords/agreement | agreement made by leaders of the National Liberation Front, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the US to end the Vietnam War |
| reunification | xxxxx |
| Hanoi | capitol of N. Vietnam |
| Ngo Dien Djem | Led South Vietnam |
| domino theory | If Vietnam went all communist then all of SEast Asia would follow |
| search and destroy missions | US patrols searched for enemy camps and supplies hidden in the jungle |
| Khmer ROuge | Camgodian communist army |
| War Powers Act | prevent undeclared wars |
| Bao Dai | led South Vietnam until assasinated |
