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Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Viet Minh. The Viet Minh was a communist Vietnamese group. -
This was a conflict between France and the Viet Minh that lasted from 1946-1954. -
An American idea that thought that if one country went communist then more countries would begin to be communist around that country. -
In the Vietnam War, the U.S. would spray agent orange to get rid some of the forset to give them an advantage over the Viet Cong. -
America gave France economic and military help after WWII. -
The Geneva Accords ended the First Indochina War but split North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel -
Diem was assassinated by Vietnamese soldiers who did not like the fact that he was ruling the country, so they assassinated him. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was when a Vietnamese boat fired at a U.S. patrol ship that was spying on the Vietnamese. -
The Tet Offensive was a war strategy used by the Viet Cong in a surprise attack on many large cities, leading to lots of damage and deaths. -
The Mai Lai Massacre was when U.S. troops killed men, women, and children in the city of Mai Lai. They did this so that any Viet Cong living in the city would also be killed. -
Vietnamization was a plan implemented by Nixon to get troops out of Vietnam. The plan was to train South Vietnam soldiers so that the U.S. would not need to keep fighting in the war. -
This was a law passed that gave the president less power to do whatever he wanted in war times and congress would take a bigger action in what would happen. -
The Fall of Saigon was when North Vietnam troops invaded the capital of South Vietnam and essentially ended the war.