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• Air campaigns in Cambodia and Laos [r]: U.S. military air operations, both overt and covert, over Cambodia and Laos; some before and most during the 1962-1972 Vietnam War [e]
• Algerian War [r]: (1954-1962) Fought by Algerians seeking independence from French colonial rule. [e]
• Annam [r]: The central region in those parts of French Indochina that eventually became South Vietnam; was the Kingdom of Dai Viet and then the Empire of Annam [e]
• Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
• Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province [r]: A province of Vietnam, adjoining Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City. [e]
• Bac Can Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ban Me Thuot [r]: A town in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, the junction of a number of key highways; During the Vietnam War, it was a MACV-SOG covert action base; the first major town captured in the 1975 North Vietnamese invasion, triggering large-scale refugee flight [e]
• 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]
• Battle of Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e]
• Battle of Na San [r]: A successful yet modest 1952 operation conducted by French paratroopers, who seized a forward base, and, under optimal conditions, formed a rock of a defense against which Viet Minh smashed themselves. It may have set unrealistic expectations for Dien Bien Phu [e]
• Battle of Vinh Yen [r]: A battle of the Indochinese revolution, with disastrous results for the Viet Minh, who attacked French positions, without cover, in range of air attack and naval gunfire [e]
• Ben Tre Province [r]: An island province, through which multiple rivers run to the South China Sea, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam [e]
• Binh Dinh Province [r]: A coastal province of central Vietnam [e]
• Burma [r]: Country in S E Asia, officially called Myanmar. [e]
• Cambodia [r]: A country of Southeast Asia, on the Gulf of Thailand, sharing borders with Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos [e]
• Can Lao [r]: A South Vietnamese semisecret political organization controlled by the Diem brothers [e]
• Can Tho City [r]: The current capital of Can Tho Province in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, which traditionally was the capital of the Mekong region [e]
• Can Tho Province [r]: The province at the meeting of the rivers of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, containing the traditional regional capital of Can Tho City [e]
• Charles de Gaulle [r]: French military and political leader who died in 1970. [e]
• Chief of Staff of the Army [r]: Uniformed professional head of the United States Army, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of four-star general rank [e]
• Cholangiocarcinoma [r]: A relatively rare cancer of the bile ducts. [e]
• Chu Lai [r]: Originally built as a logistical facility for U.S. forces in Danang, it is now an economic development zone in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, encouraging both domestic and foreign business development under the doi moi economic reforms [e]
• Clandestine human-source intelligence [r]: clandestine operations by people who secretly collect intelligence, and their support by couriers, forgers, radio operators, and other pperational personnel. [e]
• Cochin China [r]: In French Indochina, the southernmost part of Vietnam, including the Mekong Delta; roughly corresponded to IV Corps tactical zone of the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• 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]
• Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. [e]
• Da Nang [r]: A coastal city approximately in the middle of Vietnam, which is an transportation hub for central Vietnam and was a major military base during the Vietnam War [e]
• Dac Lac Province [r]: With Ban Me Thuot as its capital, the largest province of the Central Highlands of Vietnam [e]
• Dai Viet [r]: A series of Vietnamese kingdoms that extended from a revolt against China in 939 CE, to the establishment of the Nguyen Dynasty in 1789, with occasional periods of Chinese occupation [e]
• Dan Xa Dang [r]: A short-lived, nationalist, non-Communist political party of the Cochin China region of French Indochina in the late 1940s [e]
• Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia [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]
• Doi moi [r]: Market-oriented economic reforms, in the officially Communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam, introduced in 1986. [e]
• Dong Minh Hoi [r]: A broad-front coalition, formed with Chinese sponsorship, by Vietnamese nationalists while Vichy France and Japan controlled French Indochina, formed in October 1942. Its coalition included members of the Communist Viet Minh and various non-Communist groups such as the VNQDD [e]
• Douglas Pike [r]: U.S. Foreign Service Officer and academic, an expert on the Viet Cong and Vietnam in general [e]
• Foreign Service Officer [r]: Career diplomat of the United States [e]
• Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
• France, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
• France [r]: Western European republic (population c. 64.1 million; capital Paris) extending across Europe from the English Channel in the north-west to the Mediterranean in the south-east; bounded by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain; founding member of the European Union. Colonial power in Southeast Asia until 1954. [e]
• French Third Republic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Georges d'Argenlieu [r]: French admiral, Carmelite priest, ally of Charles DeGaulle and High Commissioner of French Indochina from 1945-1957, opposed to any significant Vietnamese nationalism [e]
• Gia Lai Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gia Lam Airport [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Government of the Republic of Vietnam [r]: Government of South Vietnam between 1954 and 1975 [e]
• Gulf of Tonkin [r]: A region of the South China Sea partially bounded by the land masses of China and Vietnam, and containing uninhabited island groups of economic significance claimed by both [e]
• Ha Giang Province [r]: A Vietnamese province on the Chinese border, which was China's primary target in the 1984 invasion [e]
• Haiphong [r]: Vietnam's third largest city and second largest port, and largest transportation area for northern Vietnam; key military supply import point during the Vietnam War [e]
• Hanoi [r]: Located on the Red River in northern Vietnam (i.e., Tonkin), it is the national capital, about 65 miles west of Haiphong, on the South China Sea [e]
• Henri Navarre [r]: General in the French Army during the Second World War, and last commander of French forces in French Indochina; responsible for creating the Dien Bien Phu base [e]
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. [r]: (1902-1985) was a representative and Senator from Massachusetts, Vice Presidential nominee (1960) and ambassador to Vietnam. [e]
• Ho Chi Minh trail [r]: A complex of roads and other facilities, from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via Laos and Cambodia, used to infiltrate military forces into the South [e]
• Ho Chi Minh [r]: Vietnamese communist and nationalist leader and revolutionary (1890–1969); president of North Vietnam 1946–1969. [e]
• Hoa Hao [r]: A sect of Buddhism in Vietnam, which, while not having an extensive clerical structure, became a social and political, generally opposition movement in the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Hue [r]: Third largest city of Vietnam, which was the capital of the classic Empire of Annam and is considered the cultural center of the country. [e]
• Huu Nghi [r]: A border crossing between Vietnam and China, which is the northernmost point of National Highway 1 (Vietnam) [e]
• IV Corps tactical zone [r]: The southernmost regional command of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, including the Mekong River Delta. [e]
• Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina [e]
• Indochina [r]: Minimally, the French colony that contained the regions of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, which, with the Central Highlands, became modern Vietnam [e]
• Indochinese revolution [r]: The period, within the Wars of Vietnam, 1858-1987, between which France reasserted its colonial authority over Indochina in 1945, created a proto-state of Vietnam under a provisional government druing which there was increasing insurgency, fought conventionally combat with the Viet Minh starting in 1950, and ended in 1954. The end, militarily, involved the defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu and. politically, with the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam by the Geneva accords [e]
• Jacques Leclerc [r]: (1902—1947) Free French general, led forces in Equatorial Africa, Tunisia, the liberation of Paris, the Far East and North Africa. [e]
• Jean Lartéguy [r]: French novelist and journalist, born in 1920, particularly known for his novels about paratroopers fighting the colonial wars of Indochina and Algeria. [e]
• Jean Sainteny [r]: A French businessman, Resistance officer, politician and diplomat, who was was a trusted intermediary among many Vietnamese and French factions; he was the host for the 1969 secret peace talks between the U.S. and Democratic Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Kontum Province [r]: A province of central Vietnam, bordering Quang Nam Province on the north, Quang Ngai Province on the east and Gia Lai Province on the south [e]
• Kontum [r]: In Vietnam, the capital of Kontum Province, near Pleiku and Plei Me; Highway 14 runs through it,and Highway 24 connects it to Quang Ngai. [e]
• Kuomintang [r]: (KMT or GMD) is a Chinese political party that ruled China 1927-48 and then moved to Taiwan. [e]
• Lai Chau Province [r]: A province in the northeastern corner of Vietnam, with its capital Dien Bien Phu City, now a regional airport; it has both cultural and military tourist attractions [e]
• Lang Son Province [r]: A province of Vietnam, in a relatively remote area on the Chinese border, that may add transportation and tourism to its current agricultural economy [e]
• Lao Cai Province [r]: A province in the north of Vietnam, on the China-Vietnam border, neighboring Lai Chau Province, Ha Giang Province and Yen Bai Province [e]
• Laos [r]: A country in Southeast Asia that was part of French Indochina, located northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam, with short borders to Burma, Cambodia and China [e]
• List of rivers by length [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mekong Delta [r]: A major agricultural area of southern Vietnam, requiring considerable irrigation engineering in spite of its extensive river network [e]
• Mine (land warfare) [r]: A destructive device used in land warfare, which waits passively for a target and then detonates due to some action or physical property of the target [e]
• Montagnard [r]: A general name for a group of tribal societies traditionally in the highlands of Southeast Asia, primarily in Vietnam but also Laos and Cambodia [e]
• National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam [r]: A political movement, in South Vietnam, opposed to the Republic of Vietnam, and certainly dominated if not completely controlled by the North. It acted as a shadow government and had the Viet Cong as a military wing. [e]
• National Highway 1 (Vietnam) [r]: Stretching from the Chinese border into the Mekong Delta, this is the main north-south road of Vietnam. [e]
• National Highway 14 (Vietnam) [r]: A highway connecting Ban Me Thuot, Pleiku, Kontum and Thua Thien, in central Vietnam [e]
• National Highway 19 (Vietnam) [r]: A highway in Central Vietnam, which connects the seaport of Qui Nhon, via An Khe to Pleiku. [e]
• National Highway 24 (Vietnam) [r]: A roughly east-west highway of Vietnam and Southeast Asia, starting at Quang Ngai on the South China Sea and running to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand [e]
• National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: U.S. signals intelligence and communications security activity prior to major ground commitments [e]
• New Mexico [r]: 47th state of the USA [e]
• Nghe An Province [r]: A province in the narrowest part of Vietnam, between Laos and the South China Sea, known as the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh; current economy largely based on production of construction materials [e]
• Ngo Dinh Diem [r]: President of the Republic of Vietnam from shortly after its creation, to his overthrow and death in the Vietnam War, Buddhist crisis and military coup of 1963. He was of the Catholic minority, ascetic and autocratic, and strongly anti-Communist [e]
• Nguyen Co Thach [r]: A North Vietnamese revolutionary who became a professional diplomat, involved in the Paris Peace Talks and later attempts at normalization with the United States after the Vietnam War. Affiliated with pro-Soviet factions, he was eventually removed, in 1991, from his post as Foreign Minister and from his seat in the Politburo, in the interest of better relations with China [e]
• Nguyen Dynasty [r]: The last dynasty of Vietnam, which did involve several shifts of power, but is generally traced from the overthrow of the Le Dynasty in 1789, through French colonization in 1858, to Bao Dai, who finally left Vietnam in 1954. [e]
• Nguyen Van Linh [r]: Market-oriented Communist economist; head of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1986. [e]
• Ninh Thuan Province [r]: The southernmost province of central Vietnam; the South China Sea forms its eastern border [e]
• Operation Lam Son 719 [r]: During the process of Vietnamization, the first major ground action carried out by Army of the Republic of Viet Nam soldiers operating independently of U.S. ground troops. It was a failure. [e]
• Operation VULTURE [r]: A proposed U.S. operation to provide heavy air support, possibly including nuclear weapons, to the besieged French base at Dien Bien Phu in French Indochina, now the capital of Lai Chau Province in Vietnam [e]
• Pathet Lao [r]: A Communist revolutionary organization, allied with the Viet Minh and Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which began as part of coalition and anticolonialist governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained control of Laos in 1975 [e]
• Paul Mus [r]: A French expert (1902-1969) on Vietnam, born in French Indochina, who advised French leaders on dealing with nationalism, was an emissary to Ho Chi Minh, and continued teaching and analysis of Vietnam. [e]
• People's Army of Viet Nam [r]: The Communist military forces originally of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (i.e., North Vietnam), and then of the country after it was forcibly reunified in 1975. [e]
• Pleiku [r]: The capital of Gia Lai Province of Vietnam; headquarters of the II Corps tactical zone during the Vietnam War [e]
• Provinces of Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quang Nam Province [r]: A province in the central part of Vietnam, with coastal area on the South China Sea and a western border with Laos [e]
• Quang Tri Province [r]: A province in present-day north central Vietnam, which was the northernmost province of South Vietnam, and remains one of the most war-damaged parts of the country [e]
• Republic of Vietnam [r]: The political entity created by the Geneva Accords of 1954 that partitioned former French Indochina, and whose existence ended with the 1975 forcible occupation of the South by Communist forces of the North [e]
• Saigon [r]: The largest city of Vietnam, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after reunification of the North and South in 1975 [e]
• South China Sea [r]: A part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by nations of Southeast Asia and East Asia, important for navigation but also for small islands over which resource and sovereignty disputes exist [e]
• Souvanna Phouma [r]: One of three princes of Laos, politically active after the Second World War and into the 1960s, who was associated with a neutralist ideology and served, between coups, as Prime Minister [e]
• Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
• Tet Offensive [r]: A Communist offensive in the Vietnam War, possibly part of a larger strategy, in early 1968. The attackers suffered massive casualties and held no ground, but they achieved the turning of U.S. political opinion against continuing large-scale involvement in the war. [e]
• Thai Nguyen Province [r]: A province of northern Vietnam, between Hanoi and the Chinese border provinces, becoming an educational, research, and economic center [e]
• Thailand [r]: A country of Southeast Asia, with a constitutional monarchy, often democratic government, generally strong national identity, and a relatively strong economy, although all have been threatened in recent years [e]
• Thanh Hoa Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Two Vietnams after Geneva [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Third Indochina War [r]: An approximate time period, with the Chinese invasions of Vietnam in 1979 and 1984 as clearly within it, and possibly extending from the first fighting between People's Army of Viet Nam and Khmer Rouge troops in 1973, to the peace treaty for Cambodia in 1991, to the last Khmer Rouge surrender in 1999. [e]
• Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Torture [r]: The infliction of mental or physical pain, for punishment or as an interrogation technique. [e]
• Tran Van Don [r]: Vietnamese military officer who fought against the Viet Minh with the French, then became a general under Ngo Dinh Diem, but participated in the 1963 overthrow of Diem [e]
• Tran Van Tra [r]: General officer of the People's Army of Viet Nam, serving from 1954 to the fall of South Vietnam, who has been in some disfavor for writing a frank history of the North Vietnamese side. [e]
• Tripartite Pact [r]: The treaty Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940, created the Second World War Axis of Germany, Japan, and Italy. [e]
• Trung Sisters [r]: Vietnamese leaders of a revolt against Chinese government, in the first century CE; still actively celebrated as symbols of Vietnamese national identity [e]
• Truong Chinh [r]: North Vietnamese Politburo member and political theorist, especially advocating agrarian land reform, class struggle, and the "political dau trinh" form of strategy rather than the more military form of Vo Nguyen Giap. Both were eclipsed in power by Le Duan. [e]
• Tu Duc [r]: Last independent Vietnamese emperor before it became a French protectorate. [e]
• Tuyen Quang Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community that are concerned with transnational crime and the drug trade, beyond the jurisdiction of domestic law enforcement [e]
• U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin [r]: A period of overt advisory and combat support by the U.S. to South Vietnam, from roughly 1962 to mid-1964 [e]
• USS Mellena (AKA-32) [r]: Arcturus-class attack cargo ship, serving in WWII and then as a merchant marine training ship for 25 years [e]
• USS Ostara (AKA-33) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
• USS Tolland (AKA-64) [r]: Lead ship of Second World War Tolland-class of attack cargo ships [e]
• USS Uvalde (AKA-88) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
• USS Whiteside (AKA-90) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
• USS Yancey (AKA-93) [r]: Serving in WWII, an attack cargo ship [e]
• United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam [r]: The combination of all U.S. official organizations in Vietnam; during the Vietnam War, it included the military, as opposed to the separate chains of command in Iraq and Afghanistan [e]
• United States Secretary of State [r]: The senior cabinet officer of the United States, responsible for the conduct of diplomacy, currently Hillary Clinton [e]
• United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
• Van Tien Dung [r]: General in the People's Army of Viet Nam, who commanded the 1975 invasion resulting in the fall of South Vietnam and reunification; protege of Vo Nguyen Giap; joined Politburo in 1980, and appointed Minister of Defense; dropped from Politburo in 1986 over disagreement with the doi moi reform and replaced as defence minister in 1987 [e]
• Vichy France [r]: After the fall of France in 1940, part of the south kept a German-approved government that maintained limited autonomy within the Tripartite Pact structure. It was opposed by resistance groups. In particular, Vichy retained authority, until March 1945, over French Indochina. [e]
• Viet Cong [r]: The military wing of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF); a generic term for Communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War [e]
• Viet Minh [r]: A short name for the Communist-dominated national revolutionary movement that overthrew the colonial government of French Indochina [e]
• Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang [r]: One of the two nationalist parties opposing French colonial rule in Indochina, the other being its ultimate rival, the Vietnamese Communist Party. Purged from North Vietnam. [e]
• Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
• Vietnam, war, and the United States [r]: The interactions of the Vietnam War with United States domestic politics and public opinion, and, in turn, how domestic considerations affected the military situation [e]
• Vietnamese Communist grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam [r]: A country in Southeast Asia, neighboring China, Laos, and Cambodia, and with seacoast on the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea. Now the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam, under a Communist government with a market economic system, it spawned from ancient kingdoms, was a colony called French Indochina, and was partitioned into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) between 1954 and 1975. [e]
• Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: The most prominent general of the Viet Minh, the People's Army of Viet Nam, and eventually Defense Minister and Politburo member of North Vietnam [e]
• Wars of Vietnam [r]: The broad context of warfare in the modern area of Vietnam, of which the Vietnam War (1962-1975) is best known, but involves colonization, Japanese occupation, decolonization, and post-1975 but related warfare among Vietnam, Cambodia and China [e]
• World War II, Pacific [r]: The part of World War II, 1937-45, with Japan defeated by the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, the Soviet Union and other Allies. [e]
• Xuan Thuy [r]: Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam between 1963 and 1965; official head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks but really subordinate to Le Duc Tho. [e]
• Yen Bai Province [r]: Add brief definition or description