Vietnam War Key Terms
Identify the following terms and state the significance:
Viet Cong (VC)
"The other war"
PAVN
"Search and Destroy"
NLF
Tet Offensive
ARVN
Ngo Dinh Diem
MAAG
MACV
ROK Army
Harry S. Truman
Westmoreland
Eisenhower
helicopter
Maxwell Taylor
My Lai
John F. Kennedy
Ia Drang
"The Hearts and Minds"
Robert S. McNamara
U.C. Berkeley
Walt Rostow
Kent State
Cold War
Communism
Nation Building
Nationalism
Insurgency
Counter-insurgency
Special Forces
Guerrilla War
Americanization
Vietnamization
Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Nguyen Van Thieu
AK-47, M 16
Revolutionary war
Civil war
Conventional war
Dean Rusk
Creighton W. Abrams
B 52
Enclave strategy
Vo Nguyen Giap
"Flexible Response"
Strategic doctrine
Strategic Hamlet Program
Jane Fonda
Operation Phoenix
Watergate 1973-1975
Democratic convention, 1968
Henry Kissinger
"The Best and the Brightest"
Harold K. Johnson
Earle G. Wheeler
Frederick Weyand
"Rolling Thunder" Operation
People's War
Pacification
Napalm
Henry Cabot Lodge
Khe Sanh
JCS
Hue
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Geneva Conference, 1954
Careerism vs. Professionalism
Gen. Wallace Greene
Nguyen Cao Ky
Attrition
Admiral David Lamar McDonald
Curtis LeMay
McGeorge Bundy
John P McConnell
Ulysses S. Sharp
Andrew Goodpaster
Harold D. Moore
Paris Peace Talks
War Powers Act
"Graduated Response"
CAP
George Ball