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DSST History Of The Vietnam War
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1. Highly flammable jellied gasoline dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War.
Geneva Accords
Siege at Khe Sahn
Napalm
Ngo Dinh Diem
2. 1946-1954. This war was fought in French Indochina between the French and Viet Minh. The end result was the division of Vietnam at Geneva Conference.
Fall of Saigon
Geneva Accords
First Indochina War
Battle of Ap Bac
3. Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio - killing four people.
Kent State Shootings
Dien Bien Phu
Pham Ngoc Thao
Pham Van Dong
4. The relationship between a nation's investment in defense and civilian goods. President Johnson's attempts at creating his 'Great Society' were hampered by the spending of the Vietnam War - for example.
Siege at Khe Sahn
Guns and Butter
Bao Dai
Ho Chi Minh Trail
5. Students for a Democratic Society-an antiestablishment New Left group - founded in 1960 - this group charged that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America - and protested the Vietnam War. Dissolved in 1969.
Case-Church Amendment
Operation Menu
SDS
Vietnamization
6. Duong led the South Vietnamese army under prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1963 - he became leader of South Vietnam after a coup in which Diem was murdered. Duong's rule lasted after only two months - but he briefly led South Vietnam again in 1975 be
Ngo Dinh Diem
Le Duc Tho
Pham Van Dong
Duong Van Minh
7. August 1968; various youth anti-war groups met in Chicago to coincide with the Democratic National Convention - were met with police - and televised rioting broke out.
Siege at Khe Sahn
Ngo Dinh Diem
Bao Dai
Democratic Convention Protests
8. The largest North Vietnamese campaign since 1968 - carried out during the end of the war in 1972. Despite hampering by inept tactics and high casualties - they gained the city of Quang Tri and a better bargaining position.
Operation Flaming Dart
Guns and Butter
Easter Offensive
Ngo Dinh Diem
9. Controversial CI program executed by the CIA - United States special operations forces - and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. It was designed to identify and 'neutralize' the civilian infrastructure
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
Geneva Accords
Case-Church Amendment
Phoenix Program
10. Late in April 1975 - communist forces marched into Saigon - shortly after officials of the Thieu regime and the staff of the American embassy had fled the country in humiliating disarray. The forces quickly occupied the capital - renamed it Ho Chi Mi
Operation Menu
Guns and Butter
Fall of Saigon
Phoenix Program
11. A Communist infiltrator; he pushed the Strategic Hamlet Program to self-destructive speeds to foster resentment against the Diem regime - and helped unseat both Diem and the military junta of Khanh.
William Westmoreland
Paris Peace Accords
Dien Bien Phu
Pham Ngoc Thao
12. 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) - and are defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism - but Americans reacted shar
Pham Van Dong
Tet Offensive
Siege at Khe Sahn
Ngo Dinh Nhu
13. A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam - used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Killing Fields
Operation Cedar Falls
Le Duan
14. The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency (1970s). Later won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Vietnam.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Henry Kissinger
Battle of Ap Bac
15. Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II - the French until 1954 - and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969).
Operation Rolling Thunder
Ho Chi Minh
Fall of Saigon
Operation Menu
16. North Vietnamese troops surrounded U.S - Marines in 1968 - forcing the first American abandonment of a combat base due to enemy pressure. Nobody can fully agree on who actually won this battle.
Le Duan
Operation Flaming Dart
Siege at Khe Sahn
Democratic Convention Protests
17. American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime brought about the Communist Viet Cong resistance and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. He was killed in a coup in 1963.
Bao Dai
First Indochina War
Operation Rolling Thunder
Ngo Dinh Diem
18. Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - formed on June 8 - 1969 - as an underground government opposed to the South Vietnamese government of President Nguy?n Van Thi?u.
VVAW
Battle of Ap Bac
PRG
Henry Kissinger
19. A 7 -000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War.
Pentagon Papers
Siege at Khe Sahn
Viet Cong
Operation Menu
20. A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956. However - Diem rigged the elections and kept the two divided.
Viet Cong
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
Fall of Saigon
Geneva Accords
21. A herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam War to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding places.
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Agent Orange
William Westmoreland
22. After Ho's death - Le assumed leadership of North Vietnam until 1986. He was known publicly as Ba - or 'Second Son.'
Ngo Dinh Diem
Le Duan
Pathet Lao
Ngo Dinh Nhu
23. Hi Chi Minh's most trusted lieutenant - he led the Viet Minh in a victory over the French that concluded with the battle at Dien Bien Phu.
Operation Flaming Dart
Champa
Vo Nguyen Giap
Pentagon Papers
24. A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Also known as the National Liberation Front.
Robert McNamara
Siege at Khe Sahn
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
25. American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968. Preceded by Paul D. Harkins and replaced by Creighton Abrams - who oversaw the withdrawal from Vietnam.
PRG
Operation Cedar Falls
William Westmoreland
SDS
26. An amendment prohibiting any future military activity in SE Asia. It was passed by a veto proof majority in both houses - and ended US involvement in Vietnam in 1973.
Foreign Assistance Act
Le Duc Tho
Case-Church Amendment
Guns and Butter
27. North Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990).
Case-Church Amendment
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Kent State Shootings
Le Duc Tho
28. Nixon launched an air offensive in March 1969 against Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia - leading to the overthrow of Cambodian Prince Sihanouk and strengthening Cambodia's Communists.
Operation Menu
Agent Orange
Robert McNamara
Ho Chi Minh Trail
29. The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control - then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Lon Nol
Nguyen Cao Ky
Domino Theory
Ho Chi Minh
30. The leading communist party in Laos - similar to the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. It was eventually used to describe any communist in Laos - and it worked closely with the Vietnamese Viet Minh.
Kent State Shootings
Viet Cong
Strategic Hamlet Program
Pathet Lao
31. In 1965 - the United States brought in B52 bombers to attack North Vietnam - beginning the escalation of the war and leading to Operation Rolling Thunder.
Vietnamization
Operation Flaming Dart
Pentagon Papers
Paris Peace Accords
32. Name for the places/fields where enemies of Pol Pot were tortured and eventually killed during the Cambodian Genocide.
The Killing Fields
Le Duc Tho
First Indochina War
Battle of Ap Bac
33. The 8th US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. He was the architect for the Vietnam War and promptly resigned after the US lost badly.
Operation Menu
First Indochina War
Robert McNamara
Pham Ngoc Thao
34. Viet Cong vs. South Vietnam and U.S. January 2 - 1963 Ap Bac Hamlet - South Vietnam.
Lon Nol
Operation Flaming Dart
Pol Pot
Battle of Ap Bac
35. Vietnam Veterans Against the War; one of the most influential anti-war organizations of its era.
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
VVAW
Champa
Operation Cedar Falls
36. 1973 peace agreement between the United States - South Vietnam - North Vietnam - and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.
First Indochina War
Paris Peace Accords
Nguyen Van Thieu
SDS
37. He was the head political leader of the Viet Minh - in which he oversaw recruitment and was responsible for other political negotiations for the Viet Minh. Represented the Viet Minh at the Geneva Conference in 1954 - and acted as prime minister betwe
Nguyen Van Thieu
VVAW
Case-Church Amendment
Pham Van Dong
38. A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7 - 1964 in direct response to a minor and bizarre naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization - without a formal declaration o
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Pham Van Dong
First Indochina War
SDS
39. Air Vice Marshall of South Vietnam's military; He became Prime Minister in June - 1965 after a coup d'etat (ousting Khanh - then Dr. Quat). Thieu was his chief of state until Ky lost an election in 1967 to him and Ky became vice-president. He ran a v
Operation Menu
Tet Offensive
Case-Church Amendment
Nguyen Cao Ky
40. In 1954 - Vietminh rebels besieged a French garrison at Dien Bien Phu - deep in the interior of northern Vietnam. In May - after the United States refused to intervene - Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dien Bien Phu
Kent State Shootings
Bao Dai
41. A state formerly located in what is now southern Vietnam. It was hostile to Annam and was annexed by Annam and destroyed as an independent entity in 1500.
Nguyen Cao Ky
Paris Peace Accords
Battle of Ap Bac
Champa
42. The aim of this massive search and destroy operation was to eradicate the so-called 'Iron Triangle' - an area located in close proximity to Saigon which had become a major stronghold of the Viet Cong. While it did locate and destroy a great deal - it
Operation Cedar Falls
Geneva Accords
Henry Kissinger
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
43. Overthrew Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 - clearing the way for US bombing raids to be delivered in Cambodia - dropping four times the tonnage of bombs then were ever dropped on Japan.
Henry Kissinger
Phoenix Program
Lon Nol
Pham Van Dong
44. A strategy of gradually intensified bombing of North Vietnam - begun in February 1965. Less than a month later - Johnson ordered the first US combat troops to South Vietnam - and in July he shifted US troops from defensive to offensive operations - d
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Operation Rolling Thunder
Foreign Assistance Act
Operation Flaming Dart
45. The brother of Ngo Dinh Diem - he played a vital but informal role in Ngo Dinh Diem's government - being largely responsible for taking over drug - alcohol - and gambling syndicates in Saigon. Killed in the coup that overthrew his brother. His wife -
Ngo Dinh Nhu
PRG
Domino Theory
The Killing Fields
46. A US-South Vietnamese plan to set up well-placed towns full of trained villagers to combat the NLF by resettling and training existing towns. Preceded by the equally ineffective Agroville Program - it failed due to poor execution - corruption - lack
Dien Bien Phu
Strategic Hamlet Program
Napalm
Case-Church Amendment
47. President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1967 until the republic fell to the forces of North Vietnam in 1975. Authoritarian.
Operation Rolling Thunder
Nguyen Van Thieu
First Indochina War
Pham Ngoc Thao
48. Ngo Dinh Diem's military opened fire on a group of Buddhists protesting the ban of the Buddhist flag - killing nine and spurring widespread protests (including self-immolation by monks) against discrimination against Buddhism.
William Westmoreland
Pathet Lao
Bao Dai
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
49. 1961. Countries that did not respect human rights were denied military assistance by the United States - and military and non-military assistance were separated and organized.
Pentagon Papers
Case-Church Amendment
Operation Rolling Thunder
Foreign Assistance Act
50. President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war - involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
Vietnamization
Le Duc Tho
Pol Pot
Henry Kissinger