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| France | controlled Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos for many years |
| Giap | North Vietnamese genius at guerrilla warfare |
| guerrilla warfare | a type of fighting in which you have small pockets of soldiers who blend in with the peasants. They use tactics such as snipers, booby traps, ambushes, night attacks etc. |
| Dien Bien Phu | the place where French gathered their troops to tempt the North Vietnamese into an open battle |
| Ho Chi Minh trail | the human supply train which brought supplies through the jungle to the North Vietnamese soldiers |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of the North Vietnamese communist |
| Diem | elected leader of South Vietnam |
| Green Berets | U.S. special forces soldiers trained in guerrilla warfare |
| James T. Davis | first U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam |
| President Johnson | first to send large numbers of troops to Vietnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | had the same effect as a declaration of war. It authorized President Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States |
| grunts | what the U.S. soldiers were called |
| viet Cong, Victor Charlie, VC, Charlie | names used for our enemy in Vietnam |
| Agent Orange | a chemical used to spray huge areas of the jungle to kill the leaves on trees so we could see our enemy |
| William Westmoreland | military commander in Vietnam for the U.S. General Westmoreland took command in Vietnam beginning in June 1964. He advised the South Vietnemese military for over four years. |
| Creighton Abrams | Succeeded William Westmoreland as overall military commander in Vietnam, he implemented a program known as Vietnamization. |
| Tet Offensive | when the Viet Cong struck at over 100 cities and major towns throughout South Vietnam in the middle of the Vietnamese new year holiday. |
| President Nixon | ordered the bombing of Cambodia - also brought our troops home |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | the saturation bombing of North Vietnam |
| Domino theory | the theory that if communist toppled one country others would fall like a row of dominoes |
| Tunnel rats | usually the smallest soldiers in their unit; they went into the tunnel systems to flush out the Viet Cong that might be hiding there |
| 17th degree parallel | boundary between North and South Vietnam |
| Hanoi | capital city of North Vietnam |
| Saigon | capital city of South Vietnam |
| 19 | average age of the U.S. troops in Vietnam |
| President Truman | was the first American President to commit the United States to aiding Vietnam by sending military advisors there in 1950, to aid the French in their fight to gain control of their former French colony. |
| President Eisenhower | By 1960, Eisenhower increased the number of non-combat U.S. advisors in South Vietnam to 685. |
| President Kennedy | was the third President to affirm our basic policy in Vietnam, but the first to expand it to a new, heightened level of commitment. He increased the number of U.S. military combat advisors in South Vietnam to 16,000. |
| booby traps used in Vietnam | describe three bobby traps you found in your research |
| Discuss how the Vietnam War was different from any other war America has been involved in. | Include at least four differences in your discussion answer. 1. type of warfare 2. American support for the war 3. how the veterans were treated when they returned home 4. hard to identify the enemy 5. Media coverage -You may use anything you have found in your reading and research to answer this question. |
| Compare the war in Iraq with the Vietnam War. Use three ways they are similiar and three ways they are different. | Refer to your Newsweek article to locate the answer to this question. |
