HST195 - Fall 2008

Midterm Study List

 

38th Parallel   

500,000   

Aerial bombardment

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Americanization

Agrovilles

August Revolution

Armistice

Bao Dai   

Barry Goldwater   

Body count

Buddhists

Catholic

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  

Chiang Kai-shek   

China

Communist Party

Containment

Counterinsurgency

Coup

Dean Rusk   

diplomatic recognition

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Domino Theory

Doves

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

French/France   

Geneva Conference

Great Society

Guerilla

Green Berets (special forces)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  

Harry S. Truman (Democrat)

Hawks

Ho Chi Minh   

Ho Chi Minh Trail   

Indochina

Immolation

jaunissment

J. William Fulbright

Japanese/Japan   

John Foster Dulles   

John F. Kennedy (Democrat)   

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

Joseph Stalin

Korean War

la mission civilisatrice

Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)   

Madame Nhu

Mandarin

Mao Zedong   

Maxwell Taylor   

Mekong Delta River Project   

National Liberation Front (NLF)

Ngo Dinh Diem   

Ngo Dinh Nhu

North Vietnamese Army (NVA)

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Operation Rolling Thunder

POW

Personalism

Reunification

Propaganda  

rice bowl of Vietnam

Robert McNamara   

Southeast Asia   

Soviet Union

Strategic Hamlets

Taxes

Trung Sisters

Uncle Ho  

USS Maddux

USS Turner Joy

Viet Cong

Vietminh

Vo Nguyen Giap

Wayne Morse   

William Westmoreland   

World War II

 

See maps in Herring book

pp 7, 19, 185

17th Parallel   

Annam

Ap Bac

Cambodia

China

Cochinchina

Da Nang

Dienbienphu

Gulf of Tonkin

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Hue

Khe Sanh

Laos

Mekong Delta

Pleiku   

Saigon

Tonkin