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Ho Chi Minh

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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

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Vietminh

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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

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President Truman

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Made Trumans doctrine

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General Giap

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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.

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John Foster Dulles, Anthony Eden, Georges Bidault, Vyacheslav Molotov

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US, British, French and soviet foreign ministers

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President Eisenhower

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US president who helped create the domino theory

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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South Vietnam President

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Viet Cong

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Communist group, wore indigo pyjamas, worked at night

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NLF

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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam

To instigate insurgency in the south

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PRG

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Provisional Revolutionary Government

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President Johnson

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US president, authorised gulf of Tonkin

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Thich Quang Duc

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Buddhist monk who burned himself by protest

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ARVN

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army of republican of Vietnam (south Vietnam)

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William Childs Westmoreland

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US Army General and a commander of US forces during the Vietnam War

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Robert Strange McNamara

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US Secretary of Defence from 1961-68

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President Nixon

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US president, introduced Vietnamisation, campaign was to leave Vietnam

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Nguyen Van Thieu

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South Vietnam president after diem

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Henry Kissinger

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Negotiator in Paris Peace talks

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Le Duc Tho

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North Vietnam negotiator in Paris peace talks

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Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate

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Held the Fullbright hearings

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J. William Fulbright

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US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairperson

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Dean Rusk

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US Secretary of State

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MAVC

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United States Military Assistance Command

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Lieutenant William Calley Jr.

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The only person who was convicted in the My Lai Massacre trial

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