| GulfofTonkinResolution | | Those who did not want to get involved in a war with North Vietnam |
| HoChihMinhCity | | Military term meaning an area where fighting happened |
| Theater | | Situation where neither side can win |
| Chemical Weapons | | President of the United States between 1953 and 1961 |
| VietCong | | The colony, under French rule, in SE Asia that included Vietnam |
| Morale | | Nixon's national security adviser |
| GreenBeretAdvisors | | Jellied gasoline that burns violently, dropped by the US planes over wide areas |
| HoChihMinhTrail | | President of the United States between 1945 and 1953 |
| Sanction | | A chemical that kills plants, sprayed by United States planes over the jungles of Vietnam |
| Napalm | | Those who wanted to send bombers and fighting troops to Vietnam |
| Guerillawarfare | | A revolutionary leader who united three Communist groups to form the ICP |
| Demonstration | | A network of paths the Viet Cong used to move soldiers and supplies during the war |
| Impolitic | | Surprise attacks by small bands of fighters, a tactic relied on by the Viet Cong |
| Bloc | | Land, farming |
| FrenchIndochina | | A public display of group opinion about an ikssue, cause, or person |
| PentagonPapers | | Losses |
| DwightDEisenhower | | President of the United States between 1963 and 1969 |
| Infiltration | | Group of allied countries |
| Overtly | | Openly |
| Hostilities | | Opponents of the US government's policy in Vietnam |
| AgentOrange | | Chemical sprayed to kill plant growth which Viet Cong used as cover |
| FreeFireZones | | A bad idea in terms of politics |
| SEATO | | Confidence, fighting spirit |
| Hawks | | Meeting where an agreement is made to divide North and South Vietnam along 17th parallel |
| Negotiations | | After falling to Communist forces, the name given to Saigon |
| HarryTruman | | Former French airbase where the Vietnamese forces sieze and defeat the French |
| Mediation | | Fighting |
| Agrarian | | Talks |
| Stalemate | | When an entire village is destroyed |
| BuddhistMonkDemonstrations | | Anti-Communist alliance founded in 1954 |
| SearchandDestroy | | Weapons like gas and poison |
| Doves | | Helping two sides to discuss differences |
| Attrition | | Passed in 1973, this limits the president's war making powers without consulting Congress |
| NewLeft | | When religious leaders in South Vietnam demonstrated against Diem's rule by self-immolation |
| HoChihMinh | | Theory stating that if a country fell to Communism, nearby countries would fall to Communism |
| Coalition | | Moving into an area secretly |
| WarPowersAct | | An action taken by one or more nations and designed to force another nation to comply with a legal, ethical, or moral code |
| Henry Kissinger | | President of the United States between 1961 and 1963 |
| Vietnamization | | A Vietnamese Communist |
| JohnFKennedy | | A Congressional decision to give the president power to use military force in Vietnam |
| RichardMNixon | | President of the United States between 1969 and 1974 |
| Communist | | Increasing military involvement |
| Defoliant | | Alliance, joining together |
| Dienbienphu | | A peace agreement was signed in 1972 |
| Genevaaccords | | An act of aggression, hostile action or assault |
| LyndonBJohnson | | Movement of a nation of people to rule themselves |
| Escalation | | Military personnel sent by Kennedy to reinforce Diem in 1961 |
| Dominotheory | | Areas where anything that moved was considered to be the enemy and attacked |
| Nationalism | | A person or government that practices or supports Communism |
| Offensive | | Building up and supporting South Vietnam forces to resist the Viet Cong |
| ParisAccords | | Secret defense department papers released to the New York Times in 1971 |
