Chapter 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
The Things They Carried
Charlie
Viet Cong; the enemy
DMZ
Demilitarized zone. The dividing line between North and South Vietnam established in 1954 at the Geneva Convention
Firefight
a battle, or exchange of small arms fire with the enemy.
Fragging
the assassination of an officer by his own troops, usually by a grenade
Freedom bird
The plane that took soldiers from Vietnam back to the world.
Hootch
A hut or simple dwelling, either military or civilian.
LZ
A landing zone under enemy fire.
R&R
Rest and recreation. A 3-7 day vacation from the war for a soldier.
Search and destroy
an operation in which Americans searched an area and destroyed anything in which the enemy might find useful.
Vietcong
the communist led forces fighting the south Vietnamese government. The political Wing was known as the National Liberation Front in the military was called the people’s Liberation Armed Forces period both the nlf and the plaf for directed by the People’s Revolutionary party in the southern branch of the Vietnamese communist Party which received Direction from Hanoi throughC o s v nWhich was all located in III corpse on the Cambodian borderAfter 1968 as negotiations began in Paris the NLF established the provisional revolutionary government.
My lai massacre
A United States war crime committed on the March 16th 1968 involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Son My village, Ngai Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietman war.
