Vietnam War Test

Agreement temporarily dividing Vietnam at 17th parallel.

Geneva Accords

Granted U.S. president broad military powers in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gasoline-based bomb used to burn jungle.

Napalm

Idea that countries fall to communism one after another.

Domino Theory

Allowed North Vietnam to supply arms to Vietcong.

Ho Chi Minh Trail

South Vietnamese opposition group assassinating gov officials.

Vietcong

Massive surprise attack in early 1968.

Tet Offensive

Group formed in 1941 to win independence.

Vietminh

Term used for distrust of Johnson’s reports on war.

Credibility Gap

U.S. operations uprooting villagers and burning villages.

Search and Destroy

Youth activist movement of the 1960s.

New Left

Americans who strongly opposed the Vietnam War.

Doves

Americans who felt Johnson wasn’t doing enough in Vietnam.

Hawks

Communist group that seized Cambodia.

Khmer Rouge

Murder of 200+ villagers by U.S. troops.

My Lai Massacre

Law requiring president to notify Congress within 48 hours.

War Powers Act

Publication revealing Johnson lied about Vietnam plans.

Pentagon Papers

Plan calling for gradual U.S. troop withdrawal.

Vietnamization

University where 4 students were killed.

Kent State

He led the Indochinese Communist Party.

Ho Chi Minh

Anti-Communist South Vietnam president who canceled elections.

Nguyen Van Thieu (or Ngo Dinh Diem if referring to 1956 elections)

Johnson’s Secretary of State advocating escalation.

Dean Rusk

Johnson’s Secretary of Defense admitting misjudgment.

Robert McNamara

General who introduced the body count strategy.

William Westmoreland

1968 Democratic candidate assassinated in Los Angeles.

Robert Kennedy

Johnson’s second Secretary of Defense in 1968.

Clark Clifford

Democratic nominee for president in 1968.

Hubert Humphrey

Third-party segregationist candidate in 1968.

George Wallace

Top U.S. negotiator in Vietnam.

Henry Kissinger

Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Maya Lin