History Midterms
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- Viet Minh
- North Vietnamese Political Party -made up of peasants, urban workers, intellectuals, and business people -Fighters called NVRA(North Vietnamese Regular Army)
- How Chi Minh
- leader of the Viet Minh and North Vietnam (D.R.V.) a nationalist/communist
- Geneva Conference
- April 1954-an international conference dealing with issues of Korea and Vietnam - The conference decided to divide Vietnam in half - at the 17th Parallel and called for free elections in 1956 which never occur
- Viet Cong
- -the V.C. or charlie-southern communist insurgents -Guerilla fighters who supported the Northern cause -NLF which was National Liberation Front (a political party n North supporting Viet Cong)
- Nguyen Cao Ky
- 3rd ruler of S.V. -He too is seen as Western to the Vietnamese
- ARVN
- Army of Republic of Vietnam
- NVRA
- fighters called ___ North Vietnamese Regular Army
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Disliked by Vietnamese for being too Western (meaning too American) -he is oppressive, Catholic, and does not allow local customs or government -Introduces 'Strategic Hamlet' program -foreceable relocated peasants from ancestral land to small villages, very unpopular -Intended to isolate them from communist influence -Diem was seen as being oppressive and ignorant of local customs and religion -Diem is executed in '63 with support of U.S.
- Dien Bien Phu
- Ho Chi Minh leader of the League of Independece of Vietnam, Vietminh. Ho Chi Minh aroused his people's feelings of nationalists against French control. The French opposed the Vietminh by forming the Republic of Vietnam, headed by the emperor Bao Dai. War between these opposing forces continued until May 1954, when the Vietminh defeated the French after a long siege at a fortress in Dien Bien Phu.
- Domino Theory
- Belief that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will likewise fall -this refers to the fear that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to the Communitsts, the others would also fall. A Communist takeover of Vietnam, because of its geographic location, posed a threat to Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and Thailand.