Vietnam Vocabulary

3. US slang fir a particularly odious prison or captured US servicemen
4. area where enemy is presumed to be and where anything is a legitimate target
5. large US helicopter gunship
6. American pickup from Vietnamese, meaning “Let’s get out of here!”
11. extreme leftist antiwar youth group in the US. Many domestic bombing were attributed to them.
12. Vietnamese village where, in 1968, US troops murdered 567 civilian men, women, and children
14. congressional authorization given to President Johnson in 1964 allowing increased US military role in Vietnam. It followed alleged attack on two US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin
17. secret US government study of the war which, in part, was critical of it.
19. basic rifle used by US troops in Vietnam
20. nickname for female Red Cross workers who served in Vietnam

1. anti-war lectures in many US colleges and high schools
2. Female North Vietnamese radio announcer whose broadcasts were designed to erode morale of US troops
7. section of Laos that juts into Vietnam, used as a sanctuary by Communist troops to elude US military
8. a sharpened spear hidden in the ground designed to impale unwary US and South Vietnamese troops.
9. white phosphorus artillery shell, designed to burn the skin
10. natives in a remote hill country of Vietnam and Laos, allies of the US
13. Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam
15. Guerrilla group formed by Ho Chi Minh after World War II to force the French colonial rulers out of Vietnam
16. US troops’ use of hand grenades to kill their own sergeants of officer for the alleged unnecessary risking of soldiers’ lives. Army records show 600 “fragging” between 1969 and 1971.
18. the front line of US troops, who had the toughest, most dangerous jobs