Definitions
Grant & Brooke W
Containment
Draft
Cold war
Demilitarized zone
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
General Westmoreland
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Timeline
National Liberation Front (December 20, 1960)- designed to replicate the success of the Viet Minh, the umbrella nationalist organization that successfully liberated Vietnam from French colonial rule
Pentagon Papers (1967)- the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967
Mylai Massacre (1968)- the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam