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The Vietnam War- Key Words
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- 1Agent OrangeA chemical used to destroy trees and enemy cover
- 2ARVNDiem's army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
- 3Dien bien phuThe site of an important victory of the Vietminh over France 1954
- 4Deighton EisenhowerPresident of the USA 1952-1961
- 5Guerrilla warfareUnconventional methods such as ambushes, booby traps, and sabotage
- 6Ho Chi MinhCommunist leader of North Vietnam
- 7Ho Chi Minh trailNorth Vietnam's communist supply route going south from North Vietnam through Cambodia and Laos
- 8John F KennedyPresident of the USA from 1961-1963
- 9Lyndon B JohnsonPresident of the USA from 1963-1968
- 10NapalmBombs used by the USA containing jellied petrol that stuck to the skin and burnt through bones
- 11Ngo Dinh DiemLeader of South Vietnam
- 12NLFNational Liberation a Front Ho's southern supporters named themselves this after 1960
- 13Richard NixonPresident of the USA from 1968-1974
- 14VietcongAfter 1960 Diem and the US called the NLF this
- 15VietminhHo's Vietnamese followers were known as this after 1961
- 16VietnamisationPolicy of the US leaving Vietnam and allowing South Vietnam to take over responsibility for the war
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