Vietnam War/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. ^[e]
• Insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]
• North Vietnam [r]: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976. ^[e]
• South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Republic of Vietnam [r]: The Republic of Vietnam (RVN) (1954-1975; commonly called South Vietnam (SVN)) is the political entity created by the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned French Indochina. The Republic of Vietnam ended in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. ^[e]
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam [r]: Communist state in Vietnam; formally the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Proclaimed 1945, recognized 1954, and with South Vietnam transformed into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 ^[e]
• Vietnam, war, and the United States [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Events

• Operation ATTLEBORO [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Ap Bac [r]: Fought on January 2, 1963, a small but politically significant battle of the Vietnam War, won by the Viet Cong against Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) troops with United States Army advisors. It was significant in that the command failures were publicized to the press by John Paul Vann; denials by U.S. senior commanders started the pattern of aggressive investigative journalism ^[e]
• Battle of Bong Son [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of the Ia Drang [r]: First divisional-scale battle involving helicopter-borne air assault troops, with U.S. forces against those of North Vietnam ^[e]
• Battle of Khe Sanh [r]: While there had been fighting at Khe Sanh as early as 1964, with U.S. forces arriving in 1966, the main Battle of Khe Sanh ran from January to April 1968, capturing attention before the start of the Tet offensive at the end of January ^[e]
• Operation LINEBACKER I [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation ROLLING THUNDER [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation STARLIGHT [r]: The first offensive operation, in the Vietnam War, by the United States Marine Corps with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, which pre-empted a Viet Cong attack on the logistics base at Chu Lai ^[e]
• Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963 [r]: During the Vietnam War, a period of increasing domestic instability in the Republic of Viet Nam (South Vietnam), starting with harshly suppressed protests in April 1963 and ending with a military coup in November, during which President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, political advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu, were shot and killed shortly after being captured ^[e]

People

• Bao Dai [r]: Emperor of Annam (1932-1945), and Head of State of French Indochina until replaced by Ngo Dinh Diem after the Geneva Accords. ^[e]
• William Westmoreland [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nguyen Van Thieu [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ho Chi Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bernard Fall [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harold Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nguyen Cao Ky [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pham Van Dong [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Cabot Lodge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Edward Lansdale [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Kissinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ellsworth Bunker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Cabot Lodge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ngo Dinh Nhu [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Duong Van Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Creighton Abrams [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ellsworth Bunker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ngo Diem Dinh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Harold Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frederick Nolting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arthur Radford [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Westmoreland [r]: Add brief definition or description

Organizations

• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MACV-SOG [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• People's Army of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description}
• Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Viet Minh [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Viet Cong [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Air assault [r]: Add brief definition or description

People

• Richard Nixon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert McNamara [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maxwell Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description

Organizations

• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Pacific Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description

Code words

• BARREL ROLL: Covert bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Operation Bolo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• DESOTO: Patrols, off the coast of North Vietnam, with one or more destroyers with a signal intelligence intercept van temporarily mounted on deck
• MARKET TIME: naval patrol operations against supplies and personnel being landed along the cost
• ROLLING THUNDER: incremental bombing campaign against the North
• ROLLING THUNDER II: intense bombing campaign, in 1972, intended to force the North back to the conference table