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The Geneva Accords was a peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam. They would be unified at the elections of 1956.
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It supplied the Vietcong with weapons and supplies, It was a trail from North Vietnam through Cambodia to supply arms to rebel South Vietnamese.
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It was a resolution by Congress that gave the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.
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It was the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam. President Johnson used his newly granted powers.
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It was a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese that turned the tide of the war in their favor by draining the US optimism for the war.
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The My Lai Massacre was the mass killing of unarmed civilians by the US military in Vietnam.
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It was a campaign to defeat the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese in the area as well as cut off supply for the Vietcong.