Vietnam War Study Guide – Flashcards
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The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; Secretary of State during Nixon's presidency (1970s).
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Henry Kissinger
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President Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell to the Communists other countries would also soon fall to the Communists: like dominoes. Therefore, it was important to keep Vietnam from falling to the Communists
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Domino Theory
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Surprise attack by NVA and Viet Cong on major cities in the South during a Vietnamese holiday; military victory for US, but political victory for V.C; was the turning point in the war. 1968
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Tet Offensive
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Supply route from North Vietnam to Viet Cong in South Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 because it was unfair that those eligible for draft were not eligible to vote
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26th Amendment
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A country bordering Vietnam; part of the Ho Chi Minh trail ran through this country
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Laos
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Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon,
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Presidents during the War
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President of North Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh died in 1969
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Ton Duc Thang
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Head of NVA (North Vietnam)
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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When the French occupied Vietnam, he was appointed as the leader of a new government because he was a member of the Vietnamese royal family; really was a French puppet leader
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Bao Dai
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Intensity of war increasing
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Escalation
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South Vietnamese Army
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ARVN
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North Vietnamese Army
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NVA
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North Vietnamese sympathizers who fought against the US using guerilla tactics
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Viet Cong
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A soldier who is selected to go down a very narrow tunnel which leads to the underground tunnel system of the Viet Cong; No soldier wanted this job
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Tunnel rat
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Nickname for most well-known POW camp in North Vietnam; prisoners were treated brutally and tortured
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Hanoi Hilton
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Treaty that ended American involvement in Vietnam
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Paris Accords (1973 Peace Agreement)
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-North Vietnam must recognize the South Vietnamese government and acknowledge South Vietnam as a country -POW must be released
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Results of Vietnam War
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US President who took a major role in escalating the Vietnam War and was the first president to send troops
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President Johnson
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US President during the Fall of Saigon
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President Ford
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US President who pardoned the draft dodgers and let them back into America without being arrested
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President Carter
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A series of programs created by President Johnson to make America a better place at home
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The Great Society
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The city that replaced Saigon after it fell communist
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Ho Chi Minh City
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Became President of South Vietnam after Diem was executed
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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35th president (Democrat, 1961-63). Sent the Green Berets to South Vietnam
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JFK
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1974-1977, Republican, first non elected president and VP, he pardoned Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak "I see the light at the end of the tunnel"
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William Westmoreland
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1969-1964; Republican; Ended Vietnam War; Watergate scandal; First president to visit the Soviet Union in 1972; First president to resign
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Richard Nixon
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"bringer of Light" leader of communism in North Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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This Republican senator was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War
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John McCain
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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A chemical herbicide that U.S. forces sprayed extensively in order to kill vegetation in the Vietnamese jungle and expose Viet Cong hideouts. Agent Orange inflicted immense damage on Vietnam's natural environment and led to decades of unforeseen health problems among Vietnamese civilians and U.S. military forces.
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Agent Orange
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Captial of South Vietnam, capture of this city marks the conclusion of the civil war in 1975 - it is later re-named Ho Chi Minh City
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Saigon
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on June 4 just after midnight was shot in a Los Angeles Hotel
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RFK's assassination
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In Chicago in 1968; where Democratic delegates gathered to nominate Vice-president Hubert Humphrey. The hall was protected with barbed wire and police officers to keep the protesters away.
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Democratic Convention riots
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A town of northwest Vietnam near the Laos border. The French military base here fell to Vietminh troops on May 7, 1954, after a 56-day siege, leading to the end of France's involvement in Indochina.
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Dien Bien Phu
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A broad based Vietnamese nationalist coalition led by the communist Ho Chi Minh. Fought and defeated the French.
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Vietminh
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A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War
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Vietcong
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a US bombing campaign began in 1965 and authorized by President Johnson. This tactical movement relentlessly bombed Vietcong-occupied land, destroying the landscape of hundreds of miles of land. However, the intricate and enormously large network of tunnels the guerrilla soldiers had built were largely unharmed, and it failed to stop the Vietcong from continuing to press on.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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1971; Nixon and McNamara's secret government documents published; revealed that the govt. had misinformed Americans about Vietnam; released by Washington Post by Dan Ellsberg
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Pentagon Papers
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A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 which gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson the power to send troops to Vietnam WITHOUT a formal declaration of war by Congress.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Highly flammable chemical (jellied gasoline) dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War.
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Napalm
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Village in South Vietnam where more than 300 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were massacred by US troops in May 1968.
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My Lai Incident
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President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam War; involved a gradual withdrawal of American troops and allowing the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves.
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Vietnamization
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Nixon's "secret war" in Vietnam as he continued to bomb communist targets in the neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos after major American troop withdrawals in 1973.
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Cambodia/Laos
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Ohio University where National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4,1970, wounding nine and killing four.
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Kent State
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1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong to withdraw US troops.
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Paris Peace Accords
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Law that repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Any president was now required to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops and had to gain congressional approval to keep troops deployed for more than 90 days.
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War Powers Act
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Marked the end of the Vietnam War in April, 1975. North Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam and captured the capital of Saigon, renaming it Ho Chi Minh City.
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Fall of Saigon
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US Prez who increased US involvement in Vietnam using the Domino Theory as justification; lost popularity at home because of his inability to bring about an end to the war. Did not run again in 1968.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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1968 Democratic candidate for President who ran to succeed incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson on an anti-war platform.
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Eugene McCarthy
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American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956 17th parallel
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Geneva Accords
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Area of southeast Asia controlled by France during Imperialism. Includes Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
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French Indochina
