VIETNAM PEOPLE AND THINGS Flashcards
Dwight
Eisenhower
President 1953-1961. Author of Domino
Theory. Gave $3 billion to French.
Dinh Diem
President of South Vietnam, heavily
supported by U.S government.
Madame Nhu
Wife of Diem’s brother. Unsympathetic to
Buddhists.
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of the Vietminh independence
fighters and later communist North
Vietnam.
John. F.
Kennedy
President 1961-1963, sent 16,000
military advisors to support ARVN.
General
Westmoreland
Led U.S forces in Vietnam after 1964.
Replaced after Tet Offensive.
Lyndon Baines
Johnson
President 1963-1969. Sent US troops to
Vietnam. Escalated the war.
Indochina
French controlled region that included
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.
ARVN
South Vietnamese army trained and
supported by U.S.
Vietminh
Communist group that fought to kick out
Japan then France to win independence.
Vietcong
Communist group rebelling against
Diem’s South Vietnamese government
Search and
Destroy
US tactic to seek out and destroy
Vietcong or supplies they may use.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Enabled North Vietnam to smuggle
equipment to the Vietcong in South.
Strategic Hamlets
Diem forced 2/3 of the peasant
population to relocate away from
Vietcong controlled areas.
Walter
Cronkite
Best known newsreader in the USA. He
began to question the Vietnam War in his
news broadcasts.
Nixon
President of the USA (1968-74). He
introduced Vietnamisation.
John
Lennon
A musician who used music to protest
against the Vietnam war.
Martin Luther King
Civil Rights activitist who protested the
Vietnam War as the money spent on it
could be used to improve America.
Muhammad Ali
A Nation of Islam activist who protested
the war by burning the draft.
Le Duc
Tho
North Vietnam’s Chief Negotiator in the
Paris Peace talks.
My Lai
Massacre
1968 massacre of 347-504 unarmed citizens
by the Americans which changed the tide of
support for the war.
Khmer
Rouge
Communist organisation in Cambodia.
Operation
Barrel Roll
Secret bombing campaign in Cambodia
and Laos to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail
and Vietcong bases.
Vietnamisation
Nixon’s Secret Plan to end America’s
involvement in Vietnam.
