Vietnam Flashcards
Sent volunteers to developing countries to help with projects such as digging wells and building schools.
Peace corps
A barrier of concrete and barbed wire between East and West Berlin
Berlin Wall
The U.S. Navy formed a blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in more weapons
Cuban missile crisis
A Cuban rebel that had led a revolution against an unpopular dictator
Fidel Castro
The first man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
The second man on the moon
Edwin buzz aldrin
One of the leading Vietnamese nationalists
Ho Chi Minh
American leaders feared that if one country became communist, near by countries would also fall to communism
Domino theory
Communist guerrilla forces
Vietcong
Congress passed this law giving the president the authority “ to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States .
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
A supply route used by the North Vietnamese . The trail was a network of loathe and tunnels that led from North Vietnam, through Laos and Cambodia, and into South Vietnam .
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Increased involvement
Escalation
Commander the U.S. Ground forces involved in Vietnam .
William Westmoreland
Where U.S. Patrols searched for hidden enemy camps, then destroyed them with massive firepower and air raids .
Search-and-destroy missions
Surprise attacks all over South Vietnam, including an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnams capitol .
Test offensive
