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• 559th Transportation Group [r]: In the People's Army of Viet Nam, the organization that built and operated the Ho Chi Minh trail [e]
• Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: A general term for guns that can elevate to high angles and shoot accurately at aircraft, using visual, electro-optical, or radar guidance. [e]
• Bac Can Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bac Kan Province [r]: A province in the mountainous north-central part of Vietnam, where simultaneous economic development is focused on ecologically sound mining and tourism [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 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Binh Xuyen [r]: A South Vietnamese group, primarily an organized crime syndicate but with political influence, largely wiped out under the authority of Ngo Dinh Diem [e]
• CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
• CIA activities in Europe and Russia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CIA activities in Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]
• Communist Party of Viet Nam [r]: Sole political party 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]
• Dau tranh [r]: A term of art used in Vietnamese Communist revolutionary war theory, roughly translated to "struggle", and having components of political action, guerilla warfare, and psychological warfare [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]
• Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [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]
• Fall of South Vietnam [r]: The result of a series of conventional military actions by the People's Army of Viet Nam, under the direction of the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which led to the dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam and the reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam [e]
• 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]
• Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: U.S. ambassador and head of the United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam, from May 10 to August 15, 1963. A career Foreign Service Officer, he was preceded by Elbridge Durbrow, and succeeded by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. A supporter of Ngo Dinh Diem, he did not agree with the policy of U.S. support for a coup against Diem. [e]
• General Offensive-General Uprising [r]: A series of strategic concepts, still not fully understood in the West, from the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, differing from Chinese and Soviet doctrine, and focused on creating the conditions for victory in first 1965, and then 1968. The eventual execution did not succeed, and caused a change in strategic direction, as well as shifts in power in the Party, after the Tet Offensive. [e]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
• Lucien Conein [r]: (1919-1998), a U.S. clandestine operations officer working both for the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency; he was the direct contact to the 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. [e]
• Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: The basic structure of United States Marine Corps combined arms, task-organized units [e]
• McGeorge Bundy [r]: Harvard University professor and dean who became Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations between 1961-1966. [e]
• Mekong Delta [r]: A major agricultural area of southern Vietnam, requiring considerable irrigation engineering in spite of its extensive river network [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]
• 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]
• Office of Strategic Services [r]: The United States' first unified agency for clandestine intelligence collection, all-source intelligence analysis and covert action [e]
• Paratroop [r]: A subset of air assault military forces, which arrive at a tactical objective by deliberately parachuting from aircraft [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 Ely [r]: French army general and Chief of Staff of the French military in 1954; French representative to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in requesting Operation VULTURE U.S. air support for the Dien Bien Phu outpost, surrounded by Viet Minh forces [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]
• Pham Van Dong [r]: Early Indochinese revolutionary, and then Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North) and the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam for 30 years [e]
• Saigon [r]: The largest city of Vietnam, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after reunification of the North and South in 1975 [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]
• 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]
• The Two Vietnams after Geneva [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]
• Tuyen Quang Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of State [r]: Agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government responsible for foreign policy and the conduct of American diplomacy. [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]
• 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]
• 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 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]
• Vietnamization [r]: A policy, formalized by name in the Nixon Administration but reflecting earlier U.S. thinking, of making the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam primarily responsible for conventional ground combat, in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War [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]
• Walter Bedell Smith [r]: General in the United States Army, who was chief of staff to Dwight D. Eisenhower as the allied commander of the European Theater of Operations in the Second World War. After the war, he served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Director of Central Intelligence and Undersecretary of State. [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]