HISTORY GR4 SPRING2024

Key Terms:

Zones of Occupation​

The Long Telegram​

Containment​

The Truman Doctrine​

The Marshall Plan​

Iron Curtain​

The Berlin Airlift​

Strategic Air Command​

Grand Strategy​

Chiang Kai-Shek

Mao Zedong

“Hearts and Minds”

Guerrilla Warfare

Guerilla Tactics

United Nations

Massive Retaliation Policy

Pusan Perimeter

Inchon Landings

Yalu River

Forward Area Controllers

Interdiction

Close Air Support (CAS)

Strategic/Tactical Bombing

ISR

Aeromedical Evacuation

Airlift/Mobility

Ho Chi Minh

Dien Bien Phu

Geneva Accords of 1954

The Viet Minh

The National Liberation Front

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Search and Destroy

“Body Counts”

Khe Sanh

The Tet Offensive

General William Westmoreland

Vietnamization

Operation Rolling Thunder

Operation Linebacker I

Operation Linebacker II

Discussion Questions:

Can an ideology be contained?

Can you wage war without firing a weapon?

Are humanitarian missions political?

Why does the US care about other nations’ civil wars?

Why is it important to win hearts and minds?

How are the fundamental roles of airpower used in the Vietnam War, and which levels/forms of strategy best apply?

Why were the Viet Minh so successful during the First Indochina War?

What is guerrilla warfare, and why is it significant?

Study Suggestions:

Be able to define the levels of war and forms of strategy.

How do battles and campaigns that we have discussed so far connect to the levels of war and forms of strategy?

Make sure to be able to connect the themes of the battles and campaigns we have discussed. What are their consequences and how do they fit within the larger context of WWII?