Vietnam Flashcards
Viet-Mihn, refers to league of independence for Vietnam
An organization who’s goal was to win Vietnams independence from foreign rule
Ho-Chi Mihn
Helped create indochines communist party, helped fight the Japanese
Hanoi
Capital of north Vietnam
Viet Cong
The south Vietnam communist who fought the south Vietnam government in the Vietnam war
Down vein phu
French outpost in northwestern Vietnam
Info china- (French)
Owned Vietnam before the war and want it back
Haiphong bombed
By the French and starts the 8-year war
Viet-cong
National liberation front
Geneva peace conference
- ) divided into 3 countries- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
- ) made into north and south Vietnam
- ) national election, unification decides who controls Vietnam
American ambassador at the conference
Henry Cabot lodge
South Vietnam capital
Saigon- Ngo Dihn Diem- not communist but unpopular and corrupt
August 1964
Maddox attacked by Vietnamese on the gulf of Tonkin
Gulf on Tonkin resolution
Allows the president to use military force
Operation rolling thunder
Bomb Vietnam
Search and destroy
Kill every man of military age and burn all villages
Mi Lai Massacre
54 Vietnamese citizens killed
Hawks
Supported the war
Doves
Opposed the war
- ) it’s a civil war in a different country
- ) south Vietnam is corrupt
- ) many casualties
Richard Nixon
Elected president in 1968
Henry Kissinger
Elected national security advisor
Vietnamization
Use money
Use airport
Don’t use ground troops
Fire free zones
Everybody in that area is an enemy
Operation Phoenix
CIA arrests communists
Pentagon papers
- ) nothing happened at the gulf of Tonkin
2. ) Nixon has no plans to end the war
War powers resolution
President can send troops for 60 days, after that the president needs congress approval
General Ford
President when last troops leave
