People/Groups Flashcards
Ho Chi Minh
Established the Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi (League for the Independence of Vietnam) (Viet Minh)
Blamed famine on ruthless Japanese exploitation and extreme weather
Vietminh
Umbrella organisation for all nationalist resistance movements
Wanted to wage a people’s war against French imperialism and become the legitimate representative of the Vietnamese people.
Given the nickname red bandits
President Truman
Made Trumans doctrine
General Giap
Politician and general in the Vietnam People’s Army
Nickname “Red Napoleon”
Military commander of the Viet Minh, the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) commander, and a defence minister.
John Foster Dulles, Anthony Eden, Georges Bidault, Vyacheslav Molotov
US, British, French and soviet foreign ministers
President Eisenhower
US president who helped create the domino theory
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnam President
Viet Cong
Communist group, wore indigo pyjamas, worked at night
NLF
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
To instigate insurgency in the south
PRG
Provisional Revolutionary Government
President Johnson
US president, authorised gulf of Tonkin
Thich Quang Duc
Buddhist monk who burned himself by protest
ARVN
army of republican of Vietnam (south Vietnam)
William Childs Westmoreland
US Army General and a commander of US forces during the Vietnam War
Robert Strange McNamara
US Secretary of Defence from 1961-68
President Nixon
US president, introduced Vietnamisation, campaign was to leave Vietnam
Nguyen Van Thieu
South Vietnam president after diem
Henry Kissinger
Negotiator in Paris Peace talks
Le Duc Tho
North Vietnam negotiator in Paris peace talks
Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate
Held the Fullbright hearings
J. William Fulbright
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairperson
Dean Rusk
US Secretary of State
MAVC
United States Military Assistance Command
Lieutenant William Calley Jr.
The only person who was convicted in the My Lai Massacre trial
