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| 6519981466 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of the Vietnam who formed the Vietminh and led the rebellion against the French. (1890-1969) Vietnamese leader who is responsible for ousting first the French, then the United States from his country. | 0 | |
| 6519981467 | Vietminh | Vietnamese communist supporters of Ho Chi Minh who fight the French and then the South Vietnamese & U.S. for control of all Vietnam. | 1 | |
| 6519981468 | Dien Bien Phu | The major deciding battle for control of Vietnam between the Vietminh and the French- with the French defeat Vietnam is declared independent by the Geneva Accords | 2 | |
| 6519981469 | 1954 Geneva Accords | Meeting to decide what will happen to Vietnam - result of French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam is temporarily divided at the 17th parallel - North Vietnam controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh with the support of Communist Soviet Union and China-- The South controlled by Pro-American President Ngo Dihn Diem. | 3 | |
| 6519981470 | 17th Parallel | The line decided on in the Geneva Conference between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. | 4 | |
| 6519981471 | Domino Theory | President Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell communist, other countries would also soon fall communist; like dominoes. Therefore, it was important to keep Vietnam from falling to the communist | 5 | |
| 6519981472 | Prime Minister Diem | Prime Minister of South Vietnam supported by the U.S.. Blocked National elections in Vietnam because he thought Ho Chi Minh would win and the South would become communist. | 6 | |
| 6519981473 | Advisors | U.S. ent people who helped train South Vietnamese soldiers and make plans or stratgies on how to fight the Vietminh and the Vietcong. | 7 | |
| 6519981474 | Vietcong | A communist political organization of guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam who are pro-communist and worked with the Vietminh to remove Diem, the U.S. and make South Vietnam communist like the North. | 8 | |
| 6519981475 | Agent Orange | A chemical that removes the leaves off of trees to expose the roads and troops to intelligence missions, rather than being under the cover of the jungle. | 9 | |
| 6519981476 | Maddox and Turner Joy | US ships that North Vietnamese supposedly torpedoed in the Gulf of Tonkin. | 10 | |
| 6519981477 | Gulf of Tonkin | The location of the supposed attack on the Maddox and Turner Joy. There was no apparent damage to either ships, and the destroyers were helping South Koreans attack North Korean targets. | 11 | |
| 6519981478 | Gulf of Tonkin Resoultion | Allowed the President to take all necessary measures to repel armed attacks on US forces. Gave al war powers to the president. | 12 | |
| 6519981479 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | The ability to do anything in defense of US troops. Granted to the President with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The president could send troops without officially declaring war. | 13 | |
| 6519981480 | Operation Rolling Thunder | A massive bombing of North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Supposed to only last 8 weeks. It goes for 3 years. | 14 | |
| 6519981481 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War. | 15 | |
| 6519981482 | Pacification program | U.S. program that uprooted entire villages in South Vietnam and forced people to move to cities/refugee camps in order to deprive the Vietcong of their peasant support; this failed | 16 | |
| 6519981483 | Napalm | Jellied gasoline that explodes and causes them to ignite and burn. | 17 | |
| 6519981484 | Tet Offensive | On the Vietnamese Lunar New Year the Vietminh attack the South Vietnamese and the U.S. catching them totally by surprise. he North Vietnamese attacked ever major city plus it captured the South Vietnamese and American embassies. Americans were shocked and now believe this war will never be won. | 18 | |
| 6519981485 | Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago | At the Convention in Chicago to announce the candidates running for president a major protest of the war took place. Some Americans want the candidates to promise an end to the war. Inside the convention Democrats picking a candidate, outside police are beating up protesters, | 19 | |
| 6519981486 | Vietnamization | Nixon has promised to end the war and remove American troops from South Vietnam and replace them with trained South Vietnamese troops- this was called | 20 | |
| 6519981487 | Peace With honor | Withdraw of US troops from Vietnam but with honor was a phrase Nixon used during him campaign. Nixon's intention was to maintain U.S dignity in the face of its withdrawal from war. A further goal as to preserve U.S control at the negotiation table. Nixon secretly ordered a massive bombing campaign against supply routes and bases North of Vietnam. | 21 | |
| 6519981488 | My Lai Incident | American troops are on patrol & were searching for Vietcong. They enter this village where they think the people have been hiding and supporting the Vietcong. The US soldiers kill between 400 and 500 people mainly women and children. The American public is shocked and demand an end to the war. | 22 | |
| 6519981489 | War Powers Act | A law passed in 1973 to limit the powers given the president by the Gulf of Tonkin resolution requiring (1) president to notify Congress within 48 hours of sending troops into combat and (2) begin to remove troops after 60 days unless Congress approves of the action. Limited effort to reverse erosion of Congress' war powers since World War II (last formal declaration of war). | 23 | |
| 6519981490 | Soviet Union and China | What 2 countries supported Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh | 24 | |
| 6519981491 | What was the plan for Vietnam according to the Geneva Accords | The Accords called for elections within 2 years to unify the nation. Diem refused to hold elections for fear Vietnam would become communist if Ho Chi Minh won the elections. The U.S. support Diem | 25 | |
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