Vietnam Assessement Flashcards
Who was Ho Chi Minh
The Indochinese Communist Party founded in 1930 staged a number of verbal under Ho Chi Minh. Although the French condemned to death for his rebellious activity, he fled to Vietnam and orchestrated Vietnam’s growing independence movement from exile in the Soviet Union and later from China
What was Vietminh
An organization whose goal was to when you get numbs independence from foreign rule
What was the domino theory
In a news conference in 1954 Eisenhower explain the domino theory he likened the countries in the brink communism to a level of government was waiting to fall on another.
What was the Dien Bien Phu
French were forced to surrender in May 1954,when the Vietminh over in the French outpost in this place at northwestern Vietnam
The Geneva accords
The Geneva accords temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel. The communist and their leader Ho Chi Minh controlled North Vietnam from the capital Hinoi. The anti-Communist nationalists controlled south Vietnam from the capital and southern port city of Saigon.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem
recognizing Ho Chi Minh widespread popularity South Vietnam’s president, a strong anticommunist refused to take part in the country white election of 1956.
What was the Vietcong
By 1957 communist opposition group in the south known as Vietcong had begun attacks on the DM government, assassinating thousands of South Vietnamese government officials.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Ho Chi Minh sent supplying arms to be at Kong via a network of paths along the border of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail
What was the Tonkin golf resolution
Granted Johnson brought military powers in Vietnam
Operation rolling thunder
The first sustained bombing of North Vietnam
Who was William westMoreland
The American commander in South Vietnam who continue to request more troops in Vietnam
What was napalm
A gasoline based bomb that set fire to the jungle
What was agent orange
A leaf can talk the chemical. The saturation use of these weapons often wounded civilians and left villages in there surroundings and ruins
What or search and destroy mission
US soldiers conduct a search and destroy mission, uprooting so that means with suspected ties to the Vietcong, killing their livestock and burning villages. Many villagers fled into the cities of refuge camp creating by 1967 more than 3 million refugees in the south
What was the new left
Regrowing youth movement of the 1960s became known as the new left
