1945-1954

Ho Chi Minh

• Communist
• Helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930
• Leader of Vietnam during the Vietnam War

China

• Communist country in the 1950s
• Lead by Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

• Leader of China in 1949
• Died in 1976
• Responsible for many deaths
• Leader of Red Army
• Great Leap forward

United States

• Capitalist country
• "Greatest country in the world" - Brandon Chriest

Dwight Eisenhower

• 34th President of the United States (1953-1961)
• Republican

American Advisors

• First sent to Vietnam in the 1950s
• Sent to other countries to help train their troops

French Indochina

• French Colonies in Southeast Asia
• 1945 - Declared Vietnamese independence and started the first Indochina war with France
• Under Japanese control until 1945

Geneva Accords

• Held in 1954
• Ended the first French Indochina war
• France withdrew their troops from the area

Domino Theory

• - the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

North Vietnam

• Founded in 1945
• Dissolved in 1976
• Republican Government
• Communist

South Vietnam

• Created in 1955
• Dissolved in 1975
• Democraticish Government

1956

Ngo Dinh Diem

• South Vietnamese politician
• Named Prime Minister of Vietnam
• Assassinated in 1963

1961-1963

Viet Cong

• Started in 1960
• Political Organization
• Enemies of the United States

Lyndon B. Johnson

• 36th President of the United States (1963-1969)
• Democrat

1964-1968

Gulf of Tonkin

• 1964
• Three Vietnam Navy boats attacked the Maddox
• No ships destroyed but four North Vietnamese Sailors died

Ho Chi Minh Trail

• Ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• Strategic Supply Route

Guerrilla Warfare

1969-1975

Richard Nixon

• 37th President of the United States (1969-1974)
• Republican