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DSST History Of The Vietnam War
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1. 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.
Fall of Saigon
Guns and Butter
Geneva Accords
William Westmoreland
2. 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.
Geneva Accords
Pathet Lao
Battle of Ap Bac
Pentagon Papers
3. After Ho's death - Le assumed leadership of North Vietnam until 1986. He was known publicly as Ba - or 'Second Son.'
Democratic Convention Protests
Operation Rolling Thunder
Le Duan
Pham Van Dong
4. 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.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vo Nguyen Giap
Champa
First Indochina War
5. A herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam War to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding places.
Siege at Khe Sahn
Operation Menu
Agent Orange
Pham Ngoc Thao
6. 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.
Geneva Accords
Pham Ngoc Thao
Pentagon Papers
Henry Kissinger
7. 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.
Viet Cong
Foreign Assistance Act
PRG
Pham Ngoc Thao
8. 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.
Foreign Assistance Act
Strategic Hamlet Program
Fall of Saigon
Siege at Khe Sahn
9. 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
Strategic Hamlet Program
Guns and Butter
Le Duc Tho
Ngo Dinh Diem
10. Name for the places/fields where enemies of Pol Pot were tortured and eventually killed during the Cambodian Genocide.
Pentagon Papers
The Killing Fields
Viet Cong
Foreign Assistance Act
11. 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
Pol Pot
Le Duc Tho
William Westmoreland
Tet Offensive
12. 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.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Battle of Ap Bac
Viet Cong
Champa
13. Highly flammable jellied gasoline dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War.
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
Napalm
14. 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.
Guns and Butter
Foreign Assistance Act
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
Democratic Convention Protests
15. 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.
Operation Cedar Falls
Phoenix Program
Pentagon Papers
Ngo Dinh Diem
16. 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.
Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Van Thieu
Vo Nguyen Giap
William Westmoreland
17. 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.
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
First Indochina War
Le Duan
Napalm
18. 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
Strategic Hamlet Program
Nguyen Cao Ky
Vietnamization
Operation Cedar Falls
19. 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.
Democratic Convention Protests
Easter Offensive
Bao Dai
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
20. 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
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Van Thieu
The Killing Fields
21. 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 -
Ho Chi Minh
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Duong Van Minh
22. 1973 peace agreement between the United States - South Vietnam - North Vietnam - and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.
Pathet Lao
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Paris Peace Accords
23. 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
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
Phoenix Program
Operation Cedar Falls
24. Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II - the French until 1954 - and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969).
Ho Chi Minh
SDS
Agent Orange
Easter Offensive
25. 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.
Guns and Butter
Dien Bien Phu
PRG
Le Duc Tho
26. Viet Cong vs. South Vietnam and U.S. January 2 - 1963 Ap Bac Hamlet - South Vietnam.
Robert McNamara
Paris Peace Accords
Agent Orange
Battle of Ap Bac
27. President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1967 until the republic fell to the forces of North Vietnam in 1975. Authoritarian.
Tet Offensive
Nguyen Van Thieu
Le Duan
Democratic Convention Protests
28. 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.
Champa
Nguyen Cao Ky
Easter Offensive
Vietnamization
29. 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.
PRG
Tet Offensive
Henry Kissinger
Case-Church Amendment
30. 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.
Champa
Fall of Saigon
Napalm
Pham Ngoc Thao
31. 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
VVAW
Pathet Lao
Dien Bien Phu
32. 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.
Pol Pot
Operation Flaming Dart
Fall of Saigon
Pham Van Dong
33. 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
Bao Dai
Pham Van Dong
Fall of Saigon
Phoenix Program
34. 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
Operation Menu
Geneva Accords
Phoenix Program
Pham Ngoc Thao
35. 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.
Viet Cong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Operation Rolling Thunder
Hue Phat Dan Shootings
36. 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.
Nguyen Cao Ky
Robert McNamara
Fall of Saigon
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
37. The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control - then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Guns and Butter
Domino Theory
Vo Nguyen Giap
William Westmoreland
38. 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
SDS
Le Duc Tho
Duong Van Minh
Strategic Hamlet Program
39. 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
Fall of Saigon
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Siege at Khe Sahn
First Indochina War
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.
Dien Bien Phu
Pathet Lao
Foreign Assistance Act
Pham Van Dong
41. French puppet and leader of Republic of Vietnam from 1946-54.
Battle of Ap Bac
Nguyen Van Thieu
Bao Dai
VVAW
42. Vietnam Veterans Against the War; one of the most influential anti-war organizations of its era.
Viet Cong
Domino Theory
VVAW
Pham Van Dong
43. 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.
Nguyen Cao Ky
Henry Kissinger
Operation Rolling Thunder
Guns and Butter
44. 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
Ngo Dinh Diem
SDS
Fall of Saigon
45. 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.
Battle of Ap Bac
SDS
Operation Flaming Dart
Vo Nguyen Giap
46. 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
Napalm
Phoenix Program
Pathet Lao
Operation Cedar Falls
47. 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.
Robert McNamara
Champa
Le Duc Tho
Pathet Lao
48. North Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990).
Battle of Ap Bac
Le Duc Tho
Viet Cong
Robert McNamara
49. 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.
Viet Cong
Lon Nol
Domino Theory
Ho Chi Minh
50. (1925-1998) Leader of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. He is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to starvation - execution - and beatings.
Pol Pot
William Westmoreland
SDS
Strategic Hamlet Program