Important Terms and Figures in the Vietnam War

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  1. 3. U.S. Secretary of State during the Vietnam War
  2. 6. public distrust of statements made by the government
  3. 7. a communist leader who was born to a poor Vietnamese family; his name means “He Who Enlightens”
  4. 9. peace agreement that temporarily divided Vietnam into the Communist-controlled North and the non-Communist South Vietnam; along the 17th parallel
  5. 11. the French outpost located in northwestern Vietnam in which the Vietminh overran in May of 1954
  6. 12. movement that grew due to a clash between students and administrators over free speech on a campus
  7. 13. Congress granted Lyndon B. Johnson broad military powers to wage war in Vietnam
  8. 15. a gasoline-based bomb used by the U.S. that set jungles on fire in attempt to expose the Vietcong tunnels and hideouts
  9. 17. South Vietnam’s president; strong anti-communist
  10. 19. American commander in South Vietnam who requested for additional U.S. troops after being “less than impressed” with the South Vietnamese Army; fought in World War II and the Korean War
  11. 20. an organization created with the intent to win Vietnam’s freedom from foreign rule
  12. 21. the idea by Eisenhower that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall to communism
Down
  1. 1. South Vietnamese communists who fought against the South Vietnamese government with the support of North Vietnamese
  2. 2. type of mission; U.S. soldiers uprooted civilians with suspected tides to the Vietcong; resulted in the destruction of villages and displacement of inhabitants
  3. 4. toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by the U.S. in attempt to expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts
  4. 5. U.S. Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War
  5. 8. required enrollment in the armed services
  6. 10. abbreviation for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; the South Vietnamese Army
  7. 14. youth growing political movement in the 1960s; followers demanded changes in the American Society
  8. 16. paths along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia where Ho Chi Minh supplied arms for Vietcong
  9. 18. abbreviation for Students for a Democratic Society; a New Leaf organization