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{{r|Nguyen Cao Ky}} | |||
{{r|Pham Van Dong}} | |||
{{r|Henry Cabot Lodge}} | |||
{{r|Edward Lansdale}} | |||
{{r|Henry Kissinger}} | |||
{{r|Ellsworth Bunker}} | |||
{{r|Henry Cabot Lodge}} | |||
{{r|Robert McNamara}} | |||
{{r|Creighton Abrams}} | |||
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{{r|Duong Van Minh}} | |||
===Organizations=== | |||
{{r|Army of the Republic of Viet Nam}} | |||
{{r|People's Army of Viet Nam}} | |||
{{r|National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam}} | |||
{{r|Viet Cong}} | |||
{{r|Viet Minh}} | |||
{{r|Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang}} | |||
==Other related topics== | ==Other related topics== | ||
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Revision as of 00:54, 15 September 2008
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Parent topics
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. [e]
- North Vietnam [r]: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976. [e]
- South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
People
- Bao Dai [r]: Emperor of Annam (1932-1945), and Head of State of French Indochina until replaced by Ngo Dinh Diem after the Geneva Accords. [e]
- Richard Nixon [r]: American politician (1913–1994); President of the United States 1969–1974. Known for ending the Vietnam War and for the Watergate scandal. [e]
- Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: American politician (1908-1973); president 1963–1969; known for his civil rights bills and "The Great Society". [e]
- William Westmoreland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nguyen Van Thieu [r]: Vietnamese officer and politician (1923–2001); president of South Vietnam 1967–1975. [e]
- Ho Chi Minh [r]: Vietnamese communist and nationalist leader and revolutionary (1890–1969); president of North Vietnam 1946–1969. [e]
- Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bernard Fall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harold Johnson [r]: U.S. Chief of Staff of the Army between 1964 and 1968, he was a full general who found himself increasingly at odds with the Vietnam War strategy of Lyndon Baines Johnson and William Westmoreland. He sponsored research on better approaches to counterinsurgency [e]
- Nguyen Cao Ky [r]: Republic of Vietnam Air Force general, active in military coups, who served as Premier and member of several juntas [e]
- Pham Van Dong [r]: Early Indochinese revolutionary, and then Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North) and the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam for 30 years [e]
- Henry Cabot Lodge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Lansdale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
- Ellsworth Bunker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Cabot Lodge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
- Creighton Abrams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ngo Dinh Nhu [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Duong Van Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
Organizations
- Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- People's Army of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Viet Cong [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Viet Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang [r]: Add brief definition or description
Code words
- BARREL ROLL: Covert bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Operation Bolo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DESOTO: Patrols, off the coast of North Vietnam, with one or more destroyers with a signal intelligence intercept van temporarily mounted on deck
- MARKET TIME: naval patrol operations against supplies and personnel being landed along the cost
- ROLLING THUNDER: incremental bombing campaign against the North
- ROLLING THUNDER II: intense bombing campaign, in 1972, intended to force the North back to the conference table