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1. A herbicide used as a chemical weapon during the Vietnam War to kill vegetation and expose enemy hiding places.

2. Name for the places/fields where enemies of Pol Pot were tortured and eventually killed during the Cambodian Genocide.

3. A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Also known as the National Liberation Front.

4. Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - formed on June 8 - 1969 - as an underground government opposed to the South Vietnamese government of President Nguy?n Van Thi?u.

5. American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime brought about the Communist Viet Cong resistance and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. He was killed in a coup in 1963.

6. A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam - used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

7. Overthrew Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 - clearing the way for US bombing raids to be delivered in Cambodia - dropping four times the tonnage of bombs then were ever dropped on Japan.

8. A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956. However - Diem rigged the elections and kept the two divided.

9. A Communist infiltrator; he pushed the Strategic Hamlet Program to self-destructive speeds to foster resentment against the Diem regime - and helped unseat both Diem and the military junta of Khanh.

10. A state formerly located in what is now southern Vietnam. It was hostile to Annam and was annexed by Annam and destroyed as an independent entity in 1500.

11. Late in April 1975 - communist forces marched into Saigon - shortly after officials of the Thieu regime and the staff of the American embassy had fled the country in humiliating disarray. The forces quickly occupied the capital - renamed it Ho Chi Mi

12. In 1965 - the United States brought in B52 bombers to attack North Vietnam - beginning the escalation of the war and leading to Operation Rolling Thunder.

13. The leading communist party in Laos - similar to the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. It was eventually used to describe any communist in Laos - and it worked closely with the Vietnamese Viet Minh.

14. Incident in which National Guard troops fired at a group of students during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio - killing four people.

15. French puppet and leader of Republic of Vietnam from 1946-54.

16. 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) - and are defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism - but Americans reacted shar

17. 1946-1954. This war was fought in French Indochina between the French and Viet Minh. The end result was the division of Vietnam at Geneva Conference.

18. (1925-1998) Leader of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. He is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to starvation - execution - and beatings.

19. President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1967 until the republic fell to the forces of North Vietnam in 1975. Authoritarian.

20. August 1968; various youth anti-war groups met in Chicago to coincide with the Democratic National Convention - were met with police - and televised rioting broke out.

21. Students for a Democratic Society-an antiestablishment New Left group - founded in 1960 - this group charged that corporations and large government institutions had taken over America - and protested the Vietnam War. Dissolved in 1969.

22. American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968. Preceded by Paul D. Harkins and replaced by Creighton Abrams - who oversaw the withdrawal from Vietnam.

23. An amendment prohibiting any future military activity in SE Asia. It was passed by a veto proof majority in both houses - and ended US involvement in Vietnam in 1973.

24. A US-South Vietnamese plan to set up well-placed towns full of trained villagers to combat the NLF by resettling and training existing towns. Preceded by the equally ineffective Agroville Program - it failed due to poor execution - corruption - lack

25. 1961. Countries that did not respect human rights were denied military assistance by the United States - and military and non-military assistance were separated and organized.

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