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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
North Vietnamese forces attacked and repelled the last of the Elite French troops, forcing them to request aid from the US -
Geneva Accords
Series of meetings that split Vietnam in two and ended the first Indochina War of Vietnam and France -
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Gulf of Tonkin
One of the initial confrontations that brought the US into the war, caused supposedly by North Vietnam forces -
Tonkin Resolution
Gave President Johnson the ability to do what was necessary to keep peace in Southeast Asia -
Tet Offensive
Shown the determination by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese against the US and the US used hundreds of millions of dollars. (Jan. 30, 1968- Sept. 23, 1968) -
Fulbright Commission
US Senate Foreign Relations Hearings between 1966 and 1971 discussing what was occurring in Vietnam in response to an increasing hostility to the war -
My Lai Massacre
US soldiers butchered and slaughtered an Vietnam village full of unarmed citizens, which was later covered up and exposed by the Pentagon Papers -
Vietnamization
Nixon’s policy of leaving Vietnam by training the South Vietnamese to fight their own war -
Invasion of Cambodia
(Apr 29, 1970- July 26, 1970) US and South Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in efforts to stop North Vietnamese from attacking South Vietnamese, failed miserably for the US and South Vietnamese -
Pentagon Papers
A series of documents released by Daniel Ellsberg that shown the true nature of the US war in Vietnam, revealed that the President had been lying (Johnson) -
Christmas Bombing
(December 18-29, 1972) The US’s aerial campaign in bombing Vietnam in the later part of the war -
Daniel Ellsberg
The man who released the Pentagon Papers, he was convicted under the Espionage Act in 1973, but later had the charges lifted -
War Powers Act
A check on the President’s power to fully involve the country into a military action without the consent of Congress -
Paris Peace Accords
A meeting in Paris that officially ended conflict in Vietnam and restored peace and ended direct US intervention -
Fall of Saigon
The capturing of South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, by the North Vietnamese army