| A | B |
|---|
| Imperialism | Larger nation taking over a smaller nation. |
| Nationalism | Pride and loyalty for ones country |
| Geneva Accords | Divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel, creating |
| Domino Theory | The belief that if one nation in Asia fell to Communists, neighboring countries would follow |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist help found the Indochinese Communist Party and worked to overthrow French rule. |
| 2 events convinced the Truman administration to help France | The fall of China to communism, Outbreak of the Korean War |
| The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | North Vietnamese torpedo boats had fired on 2 American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. |
| Vietcong | South Vietnam communist guerrilla army. |
| Guerrilla Warfare | Hit and Run type of warfare, blended into civilian population. |
| Vietminh Army | United both communists and non-Communists in the struggle to expel Japanese forces from Vietnam during WWII. |
| Napalm | A jellied gasoline that explodes on contact. |
| Agent Orange | A chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs. |
| Ho Chi Mihn Trail | A Network of jungle paths North Vietnamese sent arms and supplies to the South. |
| War of Attrition | Defeating the enemy by slowly wearing them down. |
| Credibility Gap | Not being able to trust what government was saying about the war. |
| Tet Offensive | guerrilla fighters attacked all airbases in South Vietnam and most major cities. |
| 3 Effects of Tet Offensive | Support for war dropped, Presidents approval rating dropped, Media became critical of war. |
| Assasinated Martin Luther King | James Earl Ray |
| Assasinated Robert Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan |
| My Lai | William Calley had massacred possible more than 200 unarmed civilians in a hamlet |
