Test 2 Flashcards
New look
Land and naval forces moved cut out and Air Force increased
Flexible response
Gave the president the chance to make military and non military actions
Laos, bay of pigs, Vienna summit, Berlin
The prevention of communism
National liberation front
Political government whose goal was to overthrow the south for a United Vietnam
John Kennedy’s policy
Wouldn’t send people to Laos, but increase military presence in Vietnam
Agroville and strategic hamlets program
Fortified settlement in Vietnam, defensible rural populations from veit cong
Battle of APBac
Battle fought in Vietnam 1963 in the south
John Paul van
Lieutenant colonel in the US
Deputy for civil operations and rural development
Le Duan
Revolutionary war leader who started in south Vietnam
Reunification through war
Buddhist crisis
Political religious tension.
Civil resistance led by the Buddhist monks
1963 RVN coup detat
The coup in south Vietnam against Diem, includes his execution
Senator Richard Russel
Big supporter of a strong national defense
Gulf of Tonkin
It was a confrontation that caused the US to engage more directly to the war
Lyndon Johnson
President durning the war, he made a major escalation of the war
Barry Goldwater
Suggest the US should use nuclear weapons on Vietnam
Robert macnamara
Promoted US involvement in the war.
Policy analysis
Pleiku attack
An attack on a U.S. helicopter facility in 1965
Rolling thunder
A systemic bombing campaign against northern Vietnam
George ball
Opposed the escalation of the war, believed US was loosing
Hi chi Minh trail
Military supply route from the north to the south,
People’s war
Battle for people’s peace with shared sacrifice for equal entitlement
Vo Nguyen Giap
He was a self taught military leader for north Vietnam
Military draft 1967
Over 2.2 million people in the US
U.S. military reserves
Are deployed when needed
