| A | B |
|---|
| The codename for the bombing of Vietnam | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| The North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| The American tactic of trying to capture Vietcong fighters | Search and Destroy |
| The American campaign to be popular with Vietnamese peasants | The 'hearts and minds' policy |
| The horrible chemical dropped on Vietnam by American airmen in an attempt to destroy the jungle hideouts of the Vietcong | Agent Orange |
| The American policy of judging the sucess of the war by the number of dead Vietnamese | Body Count |
| The type of war fought by the Vietcong and involving avoiding battles | Guerilla War |
| Communist countries who supplied the Vietcong | China and Russia |
| The American commander in Vietnam | General Westmoreland |
| The number of new troops that the American commander in Vietnam requested in 1968 | 200,000 |
| The President who was so exhausted by the Vietnam war that in 1968 he announced he would give up his job | Johnson |
| The person elected President in 1968 | Nixon |
| The communist attack on over 100 American controlled towns and military bases in South Vietnam in January 1968 | Tet Offensive |
| The year the bombing of North Vietnam began in | 1965 |
| The year the peace talks which eventually marked the end of American involvement in the Vietnam war began in | 1968 |
| The new policy Nixon introduced in 1968, in which the South Vietnamese were encouraged to defend themselves | Vietnamisation |
| The policy of increasing the war effort when Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia | Escalation |
