Vietnam War Vocab Test Questions – Flashcards

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

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

A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam.

Political organization of the Viet Cong

1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam

an explosive device planted in the ground

The dropping of a large concentration of bombs over a certain area

a type of bomb that, upon explosion, causes pieces of thick metal casings to be thrown in all directions

a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

A jellied gasoline used for bombs

policy of increasing military involvement in Vietnam

A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam

Americans who supported the Vietnam War.

Americans who opposed the Vietnam War.

This attack on U.S. forces by Vietnamese communists in 1968 made Americans realize that the U.S. was not close to winning the war in Vietnam.

Negotiations between the US and the North Vietnam, beginning in 1968. Failed to produce an agreement

A war policy in Vietnam initiated by Nixon in June of 1969. This strategy called for dramatic reduction of U.S. troops followed by an increased injection of S. Vietnamese troops in their place. A considerable success, this plan allowed for a drop in troops to 24,000 by 1972. . This policy became the cornerstone of the so-called "Nixon Doctrine". As applied to Vietnam, it was labeled "Vietnamization".

A phrase used to describe people, whatever their economic status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s

Prisoners of War

Missing in Action

An organization of Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups that between 1946 and 1954 fought for Vietnamese independence from the French