history vietnam war (yr9.)

• what is communism? 


  The government owns everything. Everyone works for the government. In return, they provide everyone in the country with everything they need.
• what is containment? 


  keeping something under control or within limits.
• what is accord? 


  a formal agreement.
• what is doctrine?


  a set of beliefs.
• what is the domino theory?

  a theory that if Vietnam fell to communism, other countries would fall to.
• what is guerrilla warfare?


  tactics used by the Vietcong against the us: get the support of the people and weaken the enemy.
• what is negotiation? 


  discussion aimed at reaching an agreement.
• what is pacification? 


  winning over the hearts and minds of the local population, so they do not support guerrillas.
• what is draft?


  compulsory recruitment for service in military forces.
• what is arvn?


  army of the republic of vietnam. (south vietnam.)
• what is vietminh?


  communist party of north vietnam.
• what is nva?


  north vietnam army
• what is vietcong?


  communist fighters in south vietnam.
• 1954?


  battle of dien bien phu.
• 1963?


  ngo din diem is assassinated.
• 1964? 


  the gulf of tonkin incident.
• 1965?


  us combat troops enter vietnam. operation rolling thunder begins.
• 1968?


  the tet offensive

  the my lai massacre
• 1969?


  the us begins to pull out troops and start vietnamisation.
• 1970?


  invasion of cambodia.
• 1971?


  invasion of laos.
• 1973?


  paris peace conference.
• 1975?


  the north invades and captures the south, they unit vietnam.
• why were the vietcong such a threat?

  . foreign aid

  . local support

  . time
• reasons for further involvement in vietnam?

  . financial aid (unsuccessful.)

  . domino theory

  . containment

  . gulf of tonkin incident

  . weakness of diems government
• Why the vietnamh won at dien bien phu?

  . local support

  . chinas help

  . local conditions
• vietcongs tactics?


  . booby traps

  . no uniform

  . bombed roads
• gulf of tonkin incident?

  . 1964

  . north vietnam ships fired at us ships

  . north vietnamese supposedly sunk a us ship

  . gulf of tonkin resolution passed

  . johnson consulted congress
• us tactics in vietnam?

  . operation rolling thunder

  . search and destroy

  . chemical warfare
• strategic hamlet program?


  . villages were built to keep locals away from the vietcong

  . arvn forcibly removed villagers

  . villagers starved to death
• The Nixon Doctrine

  . outlined the future of the us in vietnam

  . vietnamisation

  • us troops withdrawal
  • arvn to provide its own officers
  • us would provide training and equipment

  . failure

  • us troops immediately gave up
  • avrn did not have enough soliders
  • limited funding for equipment
• attacks?


  . cambodia (1970)

  • us troops sent to stop communism
  • congress was outraged and cancelled the gulf of tonkin resolution

  . laos (1971)

  • the us gave help for an invasion to stop communism
  • the south vietnamese did not fight well

  . bombing of north vietnam (1972)

  • the us bombed north vietnam. the north vietnam was severely damaged
  • the bombing led to peace deal
• the tet offensive?

  . surprise attack by the north vietnamese in high profile places in south 


  Significance of the tet offensive?

  . us

  • rise in opposition to the war

  . north vietnam

  • suffered heavy losses

  . south vietnam

  • worried that the us might leave too soon