History Test - Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh

• the communist leader in North Vietnam

• built Vietnam’s growing independence movement from exile in the Soviet Union and later from China

Viet Minh

group led by Ho Chi Minh who retook North Vietnam from France

Domino Theory

the belief that if one nation went communist, others would too

Eisenhower

coined the term Domino Theory

Geneva Accords

the event/organization that divided Vietnam between communist north and anti-communist south

Ngo Din Diem

ruled south Vietnam ruthlessly and cancelled Vietnam elections when it looked like he was going to lose

Viet Kong

communist opposition group in the south who had began attacks on the Diem government, assassinating thousands of south vietnamese government officials

Containment

President Kennedy’s Vietnam policy

Buddhists protests

protest the destruction of Buddhist temples and treatment of Buddhists throughout Vietnam

President Johnson

the president that succeeded President Kennedy after his assassination

Gulf of Tonkin

the alleged attack on the U.S. destroyers by Vietnam that President Johnson used to ask Congress for more war powers

Operation Rolling Thunder

bombing of North Vietnam

Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk

2 of President Johnson’s advisors who pushed for the escalation of the war - dispatching thousands of soldiers to fight in Vietnam

General William Westmoreland

U.S. Commander who pushed for the escalation of the war by demanding more troops

Army of the Republic of Vietnam(ARVN)