HST195 - Winter 2010

Midterm Study List

 

advisors

Archimedes Patti

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

assassination

atrocities

August Revolution

Bao Dai

Barry Goldwater

Battle of Ia Drang Valley

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

blank check

Brinks Hotel

Britain

Buddhist monks

Catholic

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  

China

civil wars

colonialism

communism

counterinsurgency

coup d'etat

Deer Team

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)

Domino Theory

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

Edward Lansdale

Everett Alvarez Jr.

famine

First Vietnam War

France

Frederick Nolting

Geneva Accords

George Ball

Great Society

Green Berets (special forces)

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Harry S. Truman (Democrat)

Henry Cabot Lodge

Ho Chi Minh

Hubert Humphrey

immolation

Indian Country

interdiction

J. Lawton Collins

Japan

John F. Kennedy (Democrat)   

Korean War

land reform

Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)   

Madame Nhu

mandarin

Mao Zedong

Mekong Delta Valley Project

national liberation

National Liberation Front (NLF)

nationalist

Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngo Dinh Nhu

Nguyen Ai Quoc

Nguyen That Than

Nikita Khrushchev

North Vietnamese Army (NVA)

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Operation Cedar Falls

Operation Rolling Thunder

peasant farmer

POW

propaganda

public relations campaign

reunification

rice bowl of Vietnam

Richard Nixon

Robert McNamara

Russia

Soviet Union

strategic hamlets

Th’ch Quảng Đức

Trung Sisters

USS C. Turner Joy

USS Maddux

Vietcong

Vietminh

Vo Nguyen Giap

War on Poverty

Wayne Morse

William Westmoreland

World War II

 

 

Map Locations/Questions

-See maps in Herring book

pp 7, 19, 185

 

Cambodia

Laos

French Indochina

Hanoi

Dienbienphu

Pleiku   

Saigon

17th Parallel   

Annam

China

Cochinchina

Da Nang

Gulf of Tonkin

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Mekong Delta

Tonkin