Flashcards
war of Vietnam Vocabulary
Cards in this deck (11)
- 1Ho Chi Minga Vietnamese communist president ( NV ) 1946-1969 wanted an independent, undivided Vietnam
- 2Viet Minhmembers of a Vietnamese independence movement
- 3First Indochina WarFrance's refusal to accept Vietnamese independence and wanted to eliminate the Viet Minh. France attacked . (8 years)
- 4Dien Bien Phua French military base in the mountains of Northern Vietnam
- 5Domino Theorythe theory that if Vietnam fell to communism , the rest of southwest Asia would
- 6MaterialMilitary equipment and supplies
- 7Geneva Accords/ 17th parallelsplit Vietnam temporarily. the french occupied the south, and Viet Minh occupied North
- 8Ngo Dinh Dieman anti-communist south Vietnamese leader whom the U.S used it's influence to put in charge
- 9Military Advisersnon-combat specialist who train and equip another nations soldiers
- 10Viet Congslang for " Vietnamese Communist"
- 11InurgencyRebellion