Vietnam Final Exam Review Ideas• Truman Doctrine• Joe McCarthy• China in VN History• France & VN: Imperialism• Trung Sisters (Trung Dao)• OSS & HO during WWII• Vietnamese Decleration of Independence• 1954 French Pull Out• Battle Dien Bien Phu• Diem Regime replaces French in the South• Geneva Accord & partition & election of 56• Bay of Pigs • Diem’s Brother head of a harshly repressive secret

police agency – who did he go after?• 1963 Nhu Diem closes Buddhist Temples(Quang Duc &

Madam Nhu)• After Diems assasination• Gulf of Tonkin Incedent & Resolution• JFK’s commitmitment to Vietnam• March 1965 Da Nang deployment• William Westmoreland MACV• Nature of Deployment• Ia Drang Valley• Problems with gradual/incremental policy of “turning

up the heat”• LBJ’s ego and disengagement options in 1965

• Confidence in firepower and technology• After destruction of the Village of Ben Suk in Operation

Cedar Falls the US Army (withdrew)• Shooting 50 year old women• Army personel poliicy• 1967 Draftees replace experienced soldiers• 1968 ½ million men and 3 years what to show• “Just & Honorable Peace” Hubert Humphry Oct. 67• “Lynchpin” of American Strategy – bombing

/interdiction• How much of the material that the NVA need to get

down the Ho Chi Mihn Traill? (10-20%)• Friendly fire• Khe Sahn• Tet Offensive – Campaigne of Optomism• Battle of Hue City• “End is coming into View” X-mas 67 Westmoreland• Effect of Tet on NLF• Vietnamization• Paris Negotiations • Nixon’s Visits to Moscow & Peking• Christmas Bombing 1972• Methods of War Resistance/Protest• Democratic Convention Riots• 1968 Election• “Silent Majority”

• Sunni, Shi’a, Kurds• Ottoman rule of Iraq• English Imperialism in

Iraq• Invasion of Kuwait• Colin Powell/Powell

Doctrine• Norman Schwartzkopf

• Republican Guards• Neo-Conservatives• Containment• WMD• 9/11• Sanctions• Reasons Bush Adm. Gave for

Invasion• Reasons American’s criticized

the invasion plan for Iraq.• Largest Protest in Human

History