| A | B |
|---|
| League for Vietnamese Independence begun by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 | Vietminh |
| belief that the fall of one nation to ommunism would lead to the fall of its neighbors | Domino theory |
| rapid increase | escalation |
| group of young people who rejected the standards of dress and behavior during the 1960s | hippies |
| people who hold positions of influence or authority in a society | Establishment |
| 1968 Vietcong attack that struck over 100 places across South Vietnam | Tet Offensive |
| treaty ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam | Paris Accords |
| French base surrendered to the Vietminh in 1954 | Dien Bien Phu |
| North Vietnamese general whose strategy against the Americans was hit-and-run raids and ambushes | Vo Nguyen Giap |
| American base in Vietnam against which the Vietcong launched a surprise attack in 1965 | Pleiku |
| leader of south Vietnam | Nguyen Van Thieu |
| 1968 presidential candidate who was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel | Robert Kennedy |
| assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| Democratic presidential candidate in the 1968 election | Hubert Humphrey |
| country bordering Vietnam from which the North Vietnamese attacked South Vietnam | Cambodia |
| assassin of Robert Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan |
| antiwar senator from Minnesota who challenged Humphry for the Democratic nomination for president in 1968 | Eugene McCarthy |
| communist leader of Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| senator who oipposed the Gulf o fTonkin resolution | Ernest Gruening |
| American commander in Vietnam | William Westmoreland |
| Alabama governor who was an independent candidate for president in 1968 | George Wallace |
| National Security advisore to Richard Nixon | Henry Kissinger |
| place where four students were killed by National guard troops during demonstrations against the bombing of Cambodia | Kent State |
| South Vietnamese communists | Vietcong |
| Vietnam was temporariky divided under the terms of this treaty | Geneva Accords |
| a war in which each side tries to wear down the other | war of attrition |
| Americans who supported the war in Vietnam | hawks |
| way of life different from the generally accepted culture | counterculture |
| policy of training South Vietnamese to take over the fighting | Vietnamization |
| secret documents showing that both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations misled the public about the Vietnam War | the Pentagon Papers |
