vietnam: key terms chapter 24

Vietnam: Key Terms Chapter 241. Vietminh2. Dien Bien Phu - city in northern Vietnam

in which 12,000 French troops became surrounded, leading the French to appeal to the U.S. for help.

3. Domino Theory4. Geneva Accords5. National Liberation Front6. Ngo Dinh Diem7. Hanoi- city in North Vietnam where the

government of Ho Chi Minh was based.

8. Viet Cong9. Saigon- city in Vietnam; former name of Ho

Chi Minh City; located in southern Vietnam, formerly the capital of South Vietnam.

10. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution11. Ho Chi Minh Trail12. napalm13. agent orange14. escalation15. My Lai massacre16. teach-in17. Conscientious objector

18. deferment19. Robert F. Kennedy20. Tet Offensive21. George C. Wallace22. Paris Peace Talks23. Vietnamization24. Silent Majority25. Henry A. Kissinger26. lottery system - a system introduced by the

Nixon Administration in 1969, for military draft; cards with all the days of the year were randomly selected; men whose birthdays were drawn first were drafted first; those who received numbers above a certain cutoff were not called for the draft were considered eligible for a year; system eliminated college deferments and economics as factors in draft.

27. Richard M. Nixon28. POW29. MIA30. Cambodia31. Laos 32. Kent State University 33. Pentagon Papers