Domino Theory & U.S. Involvement in & Escalation of the Vietnam War by Jessica Rhoads

Domino Theory

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-24 16:43:43 UTC

Governed much of U.S. foreign policy beginning in the early 1950s, held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states.

Ngo Dinh Diem

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-24 16:46:22 UTC

He was the first president of South Vietnam who was assassinated on the eve of the Vietnam War. Diem was terribly unpopular leader known for his paranoia and ruthlessness.

Ho Chi Minh

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-24 16:51:44 UTC

is a symbol of Vietnam’s struggle for unification during a long and costly conflict with the strongly anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and its powerful ally, the United States.

Operation Rolling Thunder

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-02-24 16:55:18 UTC

It was a US air division bombardent campaign against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from March 2,1965 to November 2, 1968.

Vietminh

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-24 17:00:45 UTC

"League for the Independence of Vietnam" national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941. initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire.

Viet Cong

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-02-24 17:05:04 UTC

They were a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the US and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War and emerged on the winning side

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS

troberts115 — 2015-02-24 17:06:37 UTC

Was a large radical student organization from 1960. First inspired by the civil rights movement, and supporting people's civil rights, it grew rapidly during the Vietnam War to become very anti U.S. government and military

Dien Bien Phu

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-24 17:09:33 UTC

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War (1946–54).

Search-and-Destroy Missions

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-02-24 17:10:16 UTC

It refers to a military strategy that became a large component of the Vietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediatley afterward.

Escalation

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-24 17:11:30 UTC

Escalation of the war in Vietnam bean with the Passage of the GULF of Tonkin Resolution. Lyndon B. Johnson committed the United States most fully to the war. In August 1964: The Tonkin Resolution. Then in February and March 1965, Johnson organised the sustained bombing, by U.S. aircraft and on 8th of march dispatched 3,500 marines to South Vietnam.

Doves and Hawks

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-02-24 17:17:14 UTC

The war divided the United States into two different sections. Those who wanted war and those who opposed.

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

troberts115 — 2015-02-24 17:18:37 UTC

In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to do whatever he felt necessary to retaliate and maintain international peace and security in southeast Asia.

James William Fulbright

troberts115 — 2015-02-24 17:23:43 UTC

Being the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright was a key opposer to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He held several televised hearings where he openly criticized the war and its justifications.

Defoliants (Agent Orange)

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-24 17:24:47 UTC

Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them.

Robert McNamara

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-24 17:33:03 UTC

McNamara is most famous (or infamous) today as the prime architect of the disastrous American intervention in the Vietnam War.

Tet Offensive

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-26 16:23:28 UTC

The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.

The Draft

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-26 16:25:59 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. When someone’s name was called, he had to report to his local draft broad, which was made up of various community members, so that they could begin to evaluate. By this manner, local draft broads had an enormous power to decide who had to go and who would stay.

The Media & The War

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-26 16:28:44 UTC

The Vietnam War was one of the most publicized wars in all of American history. Thousands watched on their television as Walter Cronkite and other news anchors showed film and photographs of American and South Vietnamese soldiers fighting the Vietcong. For many Americans, these images remained with them long after the conclusion of the war.

The Antiwar Movement

jocelynvelasco1 — 2015-02-26 16:33:19 UTC

The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted.

Richard Nixon

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-27 16:50:53 UTC

In the 1968 election, Republican Richard Nixon claimed to have a plan to end the war in Vietnam, but, in fact, it took him five years to disengage the United States from Vietnam.

Henry Kissinger

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-27 16:51:09 UTC

In October 1970 the idea of having a Peace Agreement was established in Paris, France. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had been secretly meeting with the North Vietnamese Communist negotiator, Le Duc Tho, outside of Paris to discuss the outcomes of the potential end of war. They knew that if an agreement were made, it would mean withdrawal of American troops, removing the military giant. It entailed sending all the American troops home and freeing all of the Prisoners of War.

Vietnamization

ebenedet07 — 2015-02-27 17:00:06 UTC

Vietnamization was a policy of the Nixon administration during the Vietnam War soon after President Nixon took office in January 1969. The plan was to train, equip and expand South Vietnamese forces so that they could take over more military responsibilities for their own defense against the North communists, and at the same time, allowed the U.S. to gradually withdraw its combat troops from South Vietnam

Kent State Shooting

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-03-04 16:33:35 UTC

Also known as the Kent State massacre occurred May 4, 1970. It involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard

Pentagon Papers

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-03-04 16:33:52 UTC

Its a paper of the Unites States Department of Defense for all the military involvement in the Vietnam war from 1945-1967.

26th Amendment

jrhoadsmullin — 2015-03-04 16:34:47 UTC

This act prohibits the state and federal government from denying someone the right to vote if they are over 18 years of age

The Credibility Gap

troberts115 — 2015-03-04 16:36:22 UTC

A term used during the Johnson administration basically used to point out when politicians lied to the public. It was used to describe any "gap" between what was said

and what happened