| A | B |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | Allowed communist soldiers and supplies to move secretly from North into South undetected. |
| Search and Destroy | American military strategy attempting to seek out and eliminate the enemy using body count statistics to measure success |
| Tet Offensive | Surprise attacks by communist forces during the lunar New Year holiday |
| My Lai Massacre | Women, children, and elderly are murdered at a South Vietnamese village |
| Counterculture | Defiance toward social norms and values |
| Hippie | A change in lifestyle defined clothing, music, sex, and drugs |
| Draft | War time policy of involuntary military service |
| Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr | Key American figures assassinated in 1968 |