Vietnam War
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maroconnor on May 2, 2008
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terms used during the Vietnam War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 escalation | something getting more intense step by step (ie. military presence and armament) |
| Ho Chi Minh | 1st president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; led the Viet Minh independence movement in North Vietnam |
| Deinbienphu | climactic battle of the First Indochina War; March-May 1954; ended in a massive French defeat, ending the war |
| Geneva Agreements (1954) | brought about an end to the French Indochina War, reached at the end of the Geneva conference; ceasefire signed and France agreed to withdraw; Vietnam divided along 17th parallel |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | August 7, 1964; gave LBJ authorization for the use of military force in SE Asia w/o declaration of war by Congress |
| Viet Cong | (National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam) insurgent organization fighting against the gov't of the Republic of Vietnam; part of the North Vietnam communist party |
| Vietnamization | policy of building up the S. Vietnamese armed forces and re-equipping them with modern weapons so that they could defend their nation on their own |
| Tet Offensive | January 31, 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces attacked South Vietnam; did not prompt an uprising, although government supporters were methodically massacred; South Vietnamese forces defeated the attack, but it was a brillilant politcal success for Hanoi |
| Domino theory | theory that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow |
| draft evaders | someone who avoided the United States draft by fleeing the country, going into the ministry, enlisting the guard/reserves and/or causing physical/physchological defects |
| Cambodian incursion | series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during the late spring-early summer of 1970 by the armed forces of the US and South Vietnam; "the most successful military operation of the entire war" |
| Laotian incursion | the South Vietnamese army backed by the US launched an incursion into Laos with the intent of cutting of the Ho Chi Minh trail; initially it was successful, but the North Vietnamese did eventually capture the territory initially occupied by South Vietnamese forces |
| hawks | people in favor of the war |
| doves | people against the war |
| anti-war protesters | initiated by college students, protesters engaged in "civil disobedience" and non-violent protest |
| Pentagon Papers | top secret Department of Defense history of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945-1967; commissioned by Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara; report was leaked to the New York Times |
| Nixon Doctrine | stated that the United States expected our allies to take care of their own military defense |
| Hanoi-Haiphong bombing | "Christmas bombing"; massive bombing attack in response to stalled peace negotiations; denounced in the US as an immoral terrorist attack |
| Henry Kissinger | National Security Advisor under Nixon, and Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford; extended detente policy; awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish ceasefire in Vietnam |
| POWs | prisoners of war; there were 13 POW camps in North Vietnam |
| My Lai Massacre | mass murder of 347-504 unarmed citizens of South Vietnam conducted by US Army forces on March 16, 1968; prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced support at home |
| Saigon | captial of South Vietnam; now known as Ho Chi Minh city |
| Paris Peace Agreement | signed Jan. 27, 1973 by the governments of North and South Vietnam, the United States, and the PRG that represented S. Vietnamese revolutionaries; ended direct US involvement in Vietnam and temporarily ended the fighting between north and south |
| Reunification | signalled the end of the Vietnam War; plans to reconstruct and unify the country under the Communist regime; led to hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country |
| Hanoi | capital of Vietnam after reunification; capital of independent North Vietnam during the war |
| Nguyen Van Thieu | former President and General of South Vietnam; asked Pres. Ford for help when North Vietnam invaded South in 1975; resigned just prior to the communist victory |
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