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15 Cards in this Set
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Ho Chi Mihn
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gained independence from France, President of North Vietnam, founder of Communist party of North Vietnam
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Bao Dai
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Last emperor of Vietnam
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Le Duc Tho
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founder of Indochinese Communist party
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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anti-Communist nationalist; became prime minister of Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Nhu
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Diem's brother and cheif political advisor
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Nguyen Cao Ky
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commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, Prime Minister and Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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president of the former Republic of South Vietnam; helped lead the coup overthrowing President Diem
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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Vietnamese four-star general; military leader of the VietMihn guerrilla group and of the Vietnam People's Army in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and later Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Henri Navarre
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commander of French forces in Indochina during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the First Indochina War
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Alexandre de Rhodes
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French missionary, the first Frenchman to visit Vietnam; established a Jesuit mission in the region
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Everett Alvarez
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first American to be shot down
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William Calley
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only American sentenced to prison for massacre of My Lai
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Jeremiah Denton
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prisoner of war; blinked "torture" using morse code on broadcast television; gave speech when freed
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A. Peter Dewey
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first American killed during post WWII Vietnam
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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president; refused to help out French
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