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Vietnamese President (1955-1963)

Ngo Dinh Diem was the Vietnamese President from 1955-1963. He gained US support for his anti-communist ways and made himself president in 1955. However, by imprisoning and murdering hundreds of Buddhists, he lost his US backing and was assassinated in 1963. The new surge of communist resistance following his death left Vietnam vulnerable and resulted in civil war.

"Before closing my eyes to Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality."

- The last written words of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who burned himself to death to protest the regime in South Vietnam, 1963

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

http://vietnamawbb.weebly.com/domino-theory.html

http://www.dienbienphu.org/english/

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Most furious and longest battle of the War of Indochina

The Final Phase of the Korean War, lasted 170 days.

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National Independence Coalition formed when the non-communist Vietnam Nationalist of other nationalist parties formed other things.

Sought Independence from the French Empire.

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Vietnamese Communist Leader during the Vietnam War.

Prime Minister (1945-1955)

President of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (1945-1969)

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The act of making a conflict more and more serious. Was coined during the Cold War. The end of escalation was nuclear war, which is why people would do everything possible to avoid escalating even one more step.

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Defoliants, most famously Agent Orange, were chemicals that the Air Force dumped onto the forest to reveal North Vietnamese positions. The defoliants were extremely harmful to the soldiers and civilians on all sides, and many people to this day have health issues because of them.

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The basis came from Korean War because the U.S learned that communism was a threat to other countries outside Europe.

Communism spread like the domino effect throughout South East Asia

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A US Senator who sponsored the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Fullbright was a Southern Democrat from Arkansas, who was in the Senate for 30 years. Mostly, however, Fullbright opposed the Vietnam war, as well as McCarthyism and other forms of Communist hunting. Fullbright was opposed to the US involvemnt in Vietnam because he was opposed to US interventionism.

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August 7, 1964

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. President Johnson requested this resoltuion following the attack of multiple US ships including the US detroyer Maddox. Although the attacks were originally reported to have been by the North Vietnamese, the allegations were later found to be mistaken.

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Take a closer look at the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder

http://www.biography.com/#!/people/robert-s-mcnamara-9394201

http://www.biography.com/people/ngo-dinh-diem-39809

http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution

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Search and destroy missions were missions in which ground forces were deployed directly into hostile territory to search for and destroy enemy positions.

They were the reason for the development of new tactics such as helicopter raids.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-1968)

Robert S. McNamara was one of they key leaders of US strategy during the Vetnam War. He, serving unde rboth ennedy and Johnson, was a strong figure for controversy among Vietnam protestors, as he supported rigorous advancement of US offense. In 1967, he ordered a study of US involvemnt in Indochina (which were leaked to the public), revealing that the US had ground forces in Vietnam long before the public was notified. In 1968, he resigned from his position.

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Viet Cong was a political organization in South Vietnam an Cambodia. They fought the US and the South Vietnamese goveernment. It had both guerrilla and a regular army. They also had a network of Cadres who organized peasants in the territory they controlled.

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SDS was a student activist movemonet in the US, which represented the New Left. it was started in the mid 1960 and was disolved in1969

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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ho_chi_minh_trail.htm

http://studentsforademocraticsociety.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong

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Operation Rolling Thunder was a
sustained strategic attack campaign of the US air force and the Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder utilized heavy aerial bombardments on North Vietnam in an attempt to destroy North Vietnam's transportation, resources, and bases, as well as to halt the flow of men into South Vietnam.

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This was a series of trails, ussed by North Vietnemese as a route for their troops to get to the South.The trial was 1,000Km in leneght, it ran along Laos and Vietnam borders.The trail consisted of dummy routes that were used to trick and confuse Americans. The trial was 50 milee wide. it took 40,000 people to keep the route open. The Americans response to this was Agent Orange, to kill off the greener
that gave cover to those using the trial.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_Destroy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWilliamFullbright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_escalation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentOrange