Unit 9 Vocabulary

• Vietnam War
• by christopher munoz

Domino Theory

• It was the main incentive to go to war with Vietnam.It was basically said that if one country came under communist influence or control, its neighboring countries would soon follow in a domino effect. U.S. President Eisenhower coined the term during a news conference on April 7, 1954.

Geneva Accords

• It was the conference the officially divided north and south Vietnam. It divided Vietnam amongst the 17th parallel, with Ho Chi Minh and the vietminh controlling north Vietnam and pro-Western regime in South Vietnam.

Napalm

• Napalm is a flammable liquid used in the Vietnam war by the united states against the vietcong. It is a mixture of a gelling agent, and either petroleum or a similar fuel. It was initially used as an incendiary device against buildings and later primarily as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on fire.

Agent Orange

• Agent Orange was a powerful mixture of chemical defoliants used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, as well as crops that might be used to feed them. The U.S. sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam from 1961 to 1972. It causes cancers.

Vietcong

• A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin

• On august 2, 1964, president Johnson announced that north Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on two american destroyers in the gulf of Tonkin, giving the u.s incentive to immense in war with Vietnam.

Hawks

• It was a metaphor used for Americans who thought the united states should stay in Vietnam and fight.

Tet offensive

• The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.

Vietnamization

• Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.

Pentagon Papers

• A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress." Lied about gulf of Tonkin.

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