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| Vietnamese revolutionary leader and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969; he wanted to bring communism to South Vietnam. |
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| a group that resisted the Japanese occupation in Vietnam |
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| a belief that if Vietnam fell to Communists, other countries of Southeast Asia would follow |
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| site of a battle between the French and the Vietminh in 1954; the French lost the battle and control of Vietnam |
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| (1954) international meeting in Geneva, Switzerland to restore peace in Indochina |
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| Vietnamese political leader; he became president of South Vietnam in 1955. He was assassinated in 1963. |
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| the military forces of the National Liberation Front, a group that wanted to overthrow the government in Vietnam |
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| (1964) congressional resolution that authorized military action in Southeast Asia |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder |
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| a U.S. bombing campaign in North Vietnam in March 1965 |
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| a network of paths from North Vietnam to South Vietnam |
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| American general in the U.S. Army; he was the commander of U.S. ground troops in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. |
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| a program in the Vietnam War in which U.S. troops would move South Vietnamese from their villages and burn the villages down |
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| people who are supportive of a war's goals |
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| American politician, he was a U.S. senator from Arkansas who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974 and strongly advocated peace talks in the Vietnam War. |
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| a series of major attacks launched by Communist forces in South Vietnam in 1968 |
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| American businessman and public official; he was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1961–1968 |
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| American politician, he was a U.S. senator who vied for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination against President Johnson. |
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| American politician, he was vice president under President Johnson, and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 1968 after Johnson decided not to seek re-election. |
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| American politician; he was a four-time governor of Alabama who fought against segregation in the South in the 1960s. |
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| German-born political scientist; he was an important foreign policy advisor during the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace for negotiating the cease-fire agreement that ended the Vietnam War. |
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| a plan to end the Vietnam war that involved turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese while U.S. troops gradually pulled out |
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| phrase used by President Nixon to describe people who supported the government's Vietnam policies but did not express their opinions publicly |
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| 1968) a massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers during the Vietnam War |
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| papers that revealed that government officials had been misleading the American people about the progress of the Vietnam War for many years |
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| American politician; he was the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1972 losing to Richard Nixon. |
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| (1971) lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18 |
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| Communists who took over Cambodia in 1975 |
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| (1973) law that set a 60-day limit on the presidential commitment of U.S. troops to foreign conflicts |
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