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miltiary strategy that became a large component of the malayan emergency and the vietnam war

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the war divided the country into twosections the people that wanted the war and the people that did not want it.
the ones that wanted it were the hawks and the ones that didnt were the doves.

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joint resolution that the united states congress
, passed on auguest 7 in response of the gulf of tonkin incident. it was a historical signfigance because it gave president johnson authorization, without a formal authorization from the united states congress

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american business executive and eigth secretary of defense. he served from 1961-1968 under president kennedy and johnson. he played a major role in escalating the united states involvement in the vietnam war. he also served as the presdient of the world bank

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J. William FulbrightA Senator from Arkansas that was the chariman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He turned against the war and in January 1966 he began to stage highly publicized and occasionally televised congresssional hearings to air criticisms of it.

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J. William FulbrightA Senator from Arkansas that was the chariman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He turned against the war and in January 1966 he began to stage highly publicized and occasionally televised congresssional hearings to air criticisms of it.

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Challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy."
Looked to the Socialists and Communists of the Depression era for inspiration.
Was the youth wing of the Democratic party.

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Ho Chi Minh Trail                                                                             A network of jungle paths used to transport supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam without crossing the border directly.

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Ho Chi Minh Trail                                                                             A network of jungle paths used to transport supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam without crossing the border directly.

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Operation Rolling Thunder                                         The title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

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Operation Rolling Thunder                                         The title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 1 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

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Resources state that at least 65 toxic chemicals were used during the Vietnam War. The three main ones were Agent Orange, Agent White, and Agent Blue. Each of these chemicals contains harmful toxins such as dioxin, arsenic, and hexachlorobenzen.  Agent Orange was the most used defoliant during the Vietnam War.

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The VietCong insurgency had grown rapidly in the final months of 1964, estimates of its numbers ranging from 80,000 to 100,000. The South Vietnamese military was under siege, unable to cope with the increase in Viet Cong raids and bombings. South Vietnam’s government was also at risk of collapse.Since early 1964 the South had been governed by a military junta, headed by General Nguyen Khanh. The junta promised a new constitution and transition to civilian government, but its members bickered over religion, political reform and their own interests.

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1. a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.

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a staunchly anticommunist Vietnamese statesman who refused to ally with Ho Chi Minh after the Franco-Vietnamese War. With the support of the United States government, Diem led South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, when he was assassinated alongside his brother in a military coup.

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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War (1946–54). After French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley in late 1953, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed heavy artillery in caves of the mountains overlooking the French camp. Boosted by Chinese aid, Giap mounted assaults on the opposition’s strong points beginning in March 1954, eliminating use of the French airfield. Viet Minh forces overran the base in early May, prompting the French government to seek an end to the fighting with the signing of the Geneva Accords of 1954.

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national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941. The Việt Nam Độc Lập Đồng Minh Hội had previously formed in Nanjing, China, at some point between August 1935 and early 1936 when the non-communist Vietnamese Nationalist of other Vietnamese nationalist parties formed an anti-imperialist united front. This organisation soon lapsed into inactivity, only to be revived by the ICP and Ho Chi Minh in 1941.[1] The Việt Minh initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire. When the Japanese occupation began, the Việt Minh opposed Japan with support from the United States and the Republic of China. After World War II, the Việt Minh opposed the re-occupation of Vietnam by France and later opposed South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War.

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The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world

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a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–55) and president (1945–69) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War.