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a conference that was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations -
Eisenhower's speech invoked what would come to be known as the “domino theory” — the notion that a communist takeover in Indochina would lead other Asian nations to follow suit -
Diem's heavy-handed tactics against the Viet Cong insurgency deepened his government's unpopularity, and his brutal treatment of the opposition to his regime alienated the South Vietnamese populace, notably Buddhists -
It stated that "Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent any further aggression." -
Those 3,500 soldiers were the first combat troops the United States had dispatched to South Vietnam to support the Saigon government in its effort to defeat an increasingly lethal Communist insurgency -
a catastrophic military failure for the communists. Historians estimate as many as 50,000 communist troops died in the effort to gain control of the southern part of the country -
an incident that occurred when American soldiers killed more than 500 unarmed South Vietnamese citizens in the village of My Lai. It occurred when Charlie Company was ordered to enter the village for a search and destroy mission. -
a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops" -
enhanced the destruction with President Nixon's order to occupy parts of Cambodia. Nixon claimed that the soldiers were protecting the United States' withdrawal from South Vietnam -
as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard in response to anti-war protest. -
started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970 -
historians have argued that the bombings forced the North Vietnamese back to the negotiating table but others have suggested that the attacks had little impact, beyond the additional death and destruction they caused -
officially the Agreement on ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam was a peace treaty -
a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress -
the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army, effectively ending the Vietnam War