USH - Vietnam Years
USH Vietnam Vocabulary
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- William Westmoreland
- General that continued to request more troops
- Dove
- The American population that believed the US should WITHDRAW from Vietnam
- Dien Bien Phu
- The place that the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam
- Vietcong
- Southen Guerilla fights that the South Vietnamese government
- Vietminh
- Vietnamese Communist groups that banded together to form a slarger and stronger party
- Agent Orange
- Series of chemicals that kill plants so that it is easier to find enemy tunnels and locate them easier
- Dean Rusk
- The American Secretary of State during the Vietnam War
- Napalm
- Gasoline-based bombs that stick to what they land and burn fiercely. This makes napalm a more frightening adversary then using normal gas
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnamese president that was catholic and strongly opposed communism. His poor leadership and corrupt government spelled doom
- Hawk
- American population that believed the US should SEND more units into the war to end it faster
- Credibility Gap
- The gap between the Johnson Administration and the American public support
- Robert McNamara
- The US Secretary of Defense during the battles in Vietnam. He was the architech for the Vietnam war and promptly resigned after the US lost badly
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnamese Communist fanatic that sports a goatee and led the Vietminh against the French and after
- Domino Theory
- If one country falls to Communism, the others are sure to follow one by one