The War in Vietnam Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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The Geneva Conference
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- 1954
- Vietnam partitioned at the 17th Parallel
- elections were supposed to be held within 2 years, they were not -> opposition from Washington and Saigon
- start of war
2
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The Domino Theory
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-…‘falling domino’ principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly (Eisenhower)
3
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Which U.S. presidents were involved?
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- D.D. Eisenhower, J. F. Kennedy, L. B. Johnson
4
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ARVN
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= Army of the Republic of the Vienam
- US trained and equipped
- mostly fought alongside US troops
- scouts and interpreters
5
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The NVA
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- a regular fighting force
- trained and aided by the Soviet and Chinese asvisors
6
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The Vietcong
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- A guerilla-styled militia-organized fighting force based both in the North and in the South
- A military branch of the NLF (National Liberation Front)
7
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Guerrila warfare
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- operations carried out by small independent forces with the objective of harassing, delying and dusrupting the enemy´s military operations
8
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail
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- logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the Viet Cong
9
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Tet offensive
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- North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam
- The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault
- big shift in the conflict
