Brittany Blain's Group - Vietnam War by Brittany Blain

Domino theory

brittanynblain — 2015-02-24 16:54:05 UTC

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.

HO CHI MINH

brittanynblain — 2015-02-24 16:54:38 UTC

Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Côn, or Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

VIETMINH

brittanynblain — 2015-02-24 16:58:20 UTC

Việt Minh ( listen; abbreviated from Việt Nam Độc Lập Đồng Minh Hội, English "League for the Independence of Vietnam") was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó on May 19, 1941.

J. William Fulbright

2015-02-24 17:05:20 UTC

James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974.

Students for a Democratic Society

2015-02-24 17:08:45 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.

Ho Chi Minh Trail

2015-02-24 17:12:58 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

Operation Rolling Thunder

2015-02-24 17:14:44 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 the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam war.

Tonkin Gulf Resolution/The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

2015-02-26 16:51:17 UTC

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional" military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". This included involving armed forces.

Robert Strange McNamara

2015-02-26 17:02:25 UTC

Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysing Nama consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.

Dien Bien Phu

2015-03-04 16:39:17 UTC

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu 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.

Ngo Dinh Diem

2015-03-04 16:42:37 UTC

Ngô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam. In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.

Vietcong

2015-03-04 16:44:16 UTC

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.

Escalation

2015-03-04 16:48:55 UTC

a rapid increase; a rise.

defoliants

2015-03-04 16:52:00 UTC

a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants and is often used in warfare

search-and-destroy missions doves and hawks

2015-03-04 16:55:47 UTC

Various missions taken to help win the war.