History Of The Vietnam War

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Operation Linebacker

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code name of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972.Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive), an invasion of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). Linebacker was the first continuous bombing effort conducted against North Vietnam since the end of Operation Rolling Thunder in 1968.

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V.V.A.W

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War

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Pentagon Papers

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the name given to a secret Department of Defense study ofU.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, preparedat the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. The papers revealedthat the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War with thebombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, andMarine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.

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Operation Dewy Canyon III

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A peaceful anti-war protest organized by V.V.A.W was namedafter two short military invasions of Laos by US and South Vietnamese forces.Dubbed "Operation Dewey Canyon III," it took place in Washington,D.C, April 19-23, 1971. Participants said it was "a limited incursion intothe country of Congress." This week of protest events gained much greatermedia publicity and Vietnam veterans participation than earlier events.

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Phoenix Program

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a program designed, coordinated, and executed bythe United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States specialoperations forces, US Army intelligence collection units from MACV (MilitaryAssistance Command, Vietnam), special forces operatives from the AustralianArmy Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam's (SouthVietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.

The Program was designed to identify and"neutralize" the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front ofSouth Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong). The CIA described it as "a set ofprograms that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of theViet Cong."

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My Lai

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War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmedcivilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. Victims included men, women,children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodiesmutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but onlyLieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted.Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence,but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

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Khmer Rouge

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name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Army from North Vietnam, and allied with North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and Pathet Lao during the Vietnam War against the anti-communist forces from 1968 to 1975. From 1975 until 1979, when it was removed from power by Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, it was the ruling party in Cambodia

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Four Nos

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One of Thieu’s campaign slogans. They were: nonegotiations with the communists; no communist political activities south ofthe Demilitarized Zone (DMZ); no coalition government; and no surrender ofterritory to the North Vietnamese or Provisional Revolutionary Government(PRG), which went against the deal.