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Dien Bien Phu
A confrontation of the first Indochina War. -
Ngo Dinh Diem Elected
He was the first president of South Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The US Navy and US 2nd air division and Republic of Vietnam Air Force arial bombardment campaign conducted against the democratic republic of Vietnam. -
Ngo Dinh Diem Assinated
Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a coup supported by the United States. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It was a joing resolution by Congress in responce to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It was considered a "blank check" or a situation in which an agreement is left open ended. -
US Jets Bomb Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a logistical system that ran from the democratic republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Combodia. -
Antiwar Movements
Teach-ins were the beginning of the movements. They are similar to a general education forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affarits, in this case the Vietnam War. -
United States Uses New Tactics
To counteract the strategies of the Vietcong, the US used napalm (a flamable jelly dropped on the enemy) and agent orange (defoliant used to kill vegetation to be able to see the enemy). -
Credibility Gap
Public skepticism about Lyndon B. Johnson adminstration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
A military campaign by Vietcong (a political organiztion and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia - fought against the US and South Vietnam) and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States adn their allies. -
Doves and Hawks
Doves: against expansion of Vietnam War - wanted time tables and withdrawl of troops.
Hawks: wanted to go to war adn wanted to increase military in Vietnam -
General William Westmoreland Replaced
He commanded th US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak and adopted a startegy of attrition against Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army. He was replaced by General Creighton Abrams. -
Ho Chi Minh Dies
The Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader dies. -
Vietnamization
A policy of the NIxon Adminstration to expand, equip and train South Vietnam forces and assign to a combat role it would reduce the number of US troops. -
Cambodia and Laos
Nixon announces that U.S. troops will attack enmy locations in Cambodia and Laos. -
Detente
Used in reference to the general easing of geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. Henry Kissinger had a major role in this as well. -
Pentagon Papers
The United States adn Vietnam relations - study prepared by the deparment of defense -
Paris Peace Accords
Intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War. It ended direct US military involvement. -
War Powers Act
The United States emerengcy law that increased federal power.
