Vietnam Vocab
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- paris peace agreement
- signed on January 27, 1973 by the governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that represented indigenous South Vietnamese revolutionaries. The intent was to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam Conflict. The accords ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily ended the fighting between north and south
- pows
- prisoner of war
- domino theory
- a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
- dienbienphu
- mactic battle of the First Indochina War between French Union forces of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, and Vietnamese Viet Minh communist revolutionary forces.
- henry kissinger
- Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration
- reunification
- when the viet cong capture saigon marking the defeat of south vietnam and both parts being together under one banner
- doves
- someone against the war
- nixon doctrine
- nixon's words: First, the United States will keep all of its treaty commitments.
- anti-war protesters
- Those who took advantage of their freedom of speech to show their disapproval of the war
- gulf of tonkin resolution
- The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- viet cong
- guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s-1975) and the United States (early 1960s-1973)
- cambodian and laotian incursions
- Campaign to defeat troops of the PAVN along the eastern border
- draft evaders
- Americans who would find various methods to avoid going to fight in the vietnam war
- geneva agreements
- declaration which supported the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Indochina thereby granting it independence from France. In addition, the Conference declaration agreed upon the cessation of hostilities and foreign involvement (or troops) in internal Indochina affairs. Northern and southern zones were drawn into which opposing troops were to withdraw, to facilitate the cessation of hostilities between the Vietnamese forces and those that had supported the French
- vietnamization
- the plan to allow South Vietnam to stand on its own, and ended in leaving a country totally on its own, unable to stand and fight. Vietnam was a French territory until the Viet Minh insurgency of the late 1940's and through 1954.
- bombing of hanoi and haiphong
- aerial bombardment campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of the American commitment to the Vietnam War
- escalation
- military presence and nuclear armament getting more intense during cold war
- hanoi
- During the Vietnam War Hanoi's transportation facilities were disrupted by the bombing of bridges and railways, which were, however, promptly repaire
- pentagon papers
- 7,000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War.
- tet offensive
- military campaign which planned to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow
- saigon
- capital of south vietnam
- hawks
- supporter of the vietnam war
- nguyen van theiu
- erved as South Vietnam's ceremonial head of state in Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ's government from 1965-67
- my lai massacre
- mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), almost entirely civilians and majority of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968.
- ho chi minh
- a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister (1946-1955) and president (1946-1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).