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| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese Communist leader and prinicpal force behind the struggle against French colonial rule. President of NOrth Vientam |
| Viet Minh | Nationalist organization in Vietnam that led the struggle against rench Rule, succeeded in 1954 |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | 1st Presdient of South Vietnam, cruel and autocratic ruler supported by U.S. |
| Viet Cong | Guerilla fighters and Vietnamese Communists fighting against U.S. forces |
| Army of the Republic of Vietnam | South Vietnamese army under the control of Diem who took land from peasants and moved villagers into controlled settlements |
| Le Duc Tho | Chief negotiator for North Vietnam from 1968-1973 |
| Nguyen Van Thieu | President of South Vietnam 1967-1975 who led a dicatorial regime |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979 and murdered close to 1.7 million Cambodians |
| Pol Pot | leader of the Khmer Rouge and responsible for the genocide of Cambodians |
| Boat People | Vietnamese refugees who took to the sea in search of a better life |
| President Harry Truman | Sent $15 million in military aid to the French for the war in Vietnam |
| President Dwight Eisenhower | sent aid and protection to Soth Vietnam to keep Vietnam from falling |
| President John Kennedy | Sent Green Berets to work with ARVN troops in the villages to provide security and win over the Vietnamese |
| President Lyndon Johnson | pursued U.s. policy of containing Communism and after the Tet offensive chose not to run again |
| President Richard Nixon | Expanded the war into Cambodia and Laos, ordered bombing of North Vietnam and announced a cease-fire |
| Green Berets | highly trained Special Forces specializing in unconventional or gurilla warfare |
| Robert McNamara | Secretary of Defense, orginally supported the war, but later said the U.S. was terribly wrong in becoming involved |
| Lt. William Calley | led the My Lai Massacre |
| Henry Kissinger | national security affairs advisor to Pres. Nixon who secretly negotiated a peace treaty to end the war |
| Socialist Republic of Vientam | Created in July 1976 as a united Vietnam with the new capital as Hanoi |
