by aantekeier

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:08:20 UTC

Domino Effect

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:10:05 UTC

Motivation for the war. An attempt to contain communism.

Ho Chi Minh trail

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:10:38 UTC

The Hồ Chí Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:12:59 UTC

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:13:34 UTC

Viet Cong

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:14:16 UTC

The Việt Cộng was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War, and emerged on the winning side.

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:22:13 UTC

Students for a Democratic Society

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:23:25 UTC

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.

Dien Bien Phu

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:24:01 UTC

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.

越南战争

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:25:09 UTC

越战是二战以后美国参战人数最多、影响最重大的战争，最后美国在越南战争中失败。越南战争是冷战下的一次实战，希望统一越南的越南反政府武装·越南南方民族解放阵线在越南民主共和国主席胡志明的支持下，推翻越南共和国总统吴庭艳的政府。美国则出兵帮助越南共和国。最后美国因为国内的反战浪潮，逐渐将美国国防军撤出越南。越南人民军和越南南方民族解放阵线最终推翻了越南共和国，统一了越南全国。

Escalation

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:28:37 UTC

Phase 1. Commitment of U.S. (and other free world) forces necessary to halt the losing trend by the end of 1965.

Phase 2. U.S. and allied forces mount major offensive actions to seize the initiative to destroy guerrilla and organized enemy forces. This phase would end when the enemy had been worn down, thrown on the defensive, and driven back from major populated areas.

Phase 3. If the enemy persisted, a period of twelve to eighteen months following Phase 2 would be required for the final destruction of enemy forces remaining in remote base areas.[206]

chiến tranh Việt Nam

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:29:02 UTC

Chiến tranh Việt Nam (1955-1975) là giai đoạn thứ hai và là giai đoạn khốc liệt nhất của.

J. William Fulbright

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:31:04 UTC

In 1966, Fulbright published The Arrogance of Power, in which he attacked the justification of the Vietnam War, Congress's failure to set limits on it, and the impulses which gave rise to it. Fulbright's scathing critique undermined the elite consensus that U.S. military intervention in Indochina was necessitated by Cold War geopolitics.

La colonisation vietnamienne

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:36:12 UTC

Entre 1859 et 1885, Le français conquit Vietnam. En 1887, le Vietnam était sous le régime français. L'administration française a changé beaucoup de choses au Vietnam.

Operation Rolling Thunder

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:39:11 UTC

Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force),US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against theDemocratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.

Ngo Dinh Diem

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:42:48 UTC

Ngô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam. Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.

Robert S. McNamara

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:43:10 UTC

Robert Strange McNamara, one of the most recognizable and controversial figures of the Vietnam War, served as the Secretary of Defense under both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Defoliant

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:46:50 UTC

مادة كيميائية التي تزيل الأوراق من الأشجار والنباتات وغالبا ما تستخدم في الحروب.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-24 15:47:46 UTC

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 7, 1964) gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North, but at that time President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. By summer, however, rebel forces had established control over nearly half of South Vietnam, and Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, was criticizing the Johnson administration for not pursuing the war more aggressively.

Search and Destroy Warfare

gpauloski — 2015-02-24 15:47:58 UTC

Search and Destroy warfare was a new tactic that involved deploying in an area, searching for the enemy, destroying the enemy, and then immediately withdrawing. This tactic is prevalent in guerrilla warfare and was aided by the widespread use of helicopters in the Vietnam War.

Doves and Hawks

aantekeier — 2015-02-24 15:48:31 UTC

Terms applied to people based upon their views about a military conflict. A dove is someone who opposes the use of military pressure to resolve a dispute; a hawk favors entry into war.

The Draft

gpauloski — 2015-02-26 14:50:28 UTC

During the Vietnam War, about two-third of American troops were volunteered, the rest were selected for military service through the drafts. In the beginning of the war, the names of all American men in draft-age were collected by the Selective Service. If there name was called, they were likely to go into the military.

The Media and the War

gpauloski — 2015-02-26 14:53:14 UTC

Vietnam was the first war that issued full freedom to the press, allowing media to cover the war as they saw it. Without censorship, appalling images enabled the public to see war, as they never had before. Many people believe that it was the media that sparked the lack of support for the war.

Anti War Movement

gpauloski — 2015-02-26 14:58:18 UTC

When the war in Vietnam began, many Americans believed that defending South Vietnam from communist aggression was in the national interest. As the war dragged on, more and more Americans grew weary of mounting casualties and escalating costs. The small antiwar movement grew into an unstoppable force, pressuring American leaders to reconsider its commitment.

Vietnem veteran memorial

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-26 15:03:31 UTC

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 3 acres national memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors U.S. service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service

Tet Offensive

gpauloski — 2015-02-26 15:03:52 UTC

On January 30, 1968, North Vietnamese troops attacked around 100 major cities and towns in South Vietnam. It took weeks for U.S. troops and South Vietnamese forces to regain control of the cities. The United States was the victor of the Tet Offensive for the Communists, however, the Tet Offensive showed another side of the war to Americans, one which they did not like. The coordination, strength, and surprise instigated by the Communists led the U.S. to realize that their foe was much stronger than they had expected.

Fall of Saigon

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-26 15:05:21 UTC

The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a socialist republic, governed by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Henry Kissinger

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:10:13 UTC

Richard Nixon &Henry Kissinger

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:10:13 UTC

Nixon was the president during the Vietnam war and Kissinger was his National Security Advisor. They distrusted each other and did not communicate well during the war.

Each man questioned the other's sanity. Nixon told a top aide to keep a file on Mr Kissinger's mental health. For his part, Mr Kissinger, obsequious in the presence of Nixon, in conversations with journalists would refer to Nixon as a “madman”, “maniac” or “meatball mind”. The insults went further. Nixon called Mr Kissinger his “Jew boy” behind his back and, occasionally, to his face. Mr Kissinger would remain silent or even support Nixon's anti-Semitic outbursts. For both men, secrecy and deceit were the modus operandi.

War Powers of Act

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-26 15:12:16 UTC

The War Powers Act of 1941, also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II. The act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put into law on December 18, 1941, less than two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Vietnamization

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:14:05 UTC

Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war and "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

Vietnamization

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:14:05 UTC

Vietnamization

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:14:05 UTC

Credibility gap

jingweima_1998 — 2015-02-26 15:14:35 UTC

Credibility gap is a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War. It was used in journalism as a euphemism for recognized lies told to the public by politicians.

Kent State Shootings

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:15:26 UTC

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

Pentagon Papers

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:18:12 UTC

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were discovered and released by Daniel Ellsberg, and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."

26th Amendment

aantekeier — 2015-02-26 15:20:09 UTC

The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old the right to vote. The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960s, driven in large part by the broader student activism movement protesting the Vietnam War.