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