Where the Domino Fell - America And Vietnam 1945-1995 (61 page)

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Authors: James S. Olson,Randy W. Roberts

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First Blood
(movie), vii

 

Fishel, Wesley

 

Ford, Gerald

 

Forrestal, Michael

 

Fortas, Abe

 

fragging

 

France

 

Casualties
See also
first Indochina war (1946–1954)

 

Franco-Vietminh accords

 

Free Fire Zone
(movie)

 

French empire

 

colonial rule by

 

Diem and

 

return to Indochina after World War II

 

French Union

 

Truman administration and

 

French Expeditionary Corps

 

French Union

 

Fulbright, J. William

 

Galbraith, John Kenneth

 

Gavin, James, enclave strategy

 

Gelb, Leslie H.

 

Geneva Accords (1954)

 

Geneva Conference (1954)

 

Geneva Conference on Laos (1961),

 

Giap, Vo Nguyen

 

and Dienbienphu

 

quoted

 

strategy of

 

Goldberg, Arthur

 

Goldman, Eric F.

 

Goldwater, Barry

 

Gorbachov, Mikhail

 

Gracey, Douglas D.

 

Gramm, Phil

 

Great Britain

 

Great Society

 

Greece

 

Green Berets.
See
Special Forces

 

Green Berets, The
(movie)

 

Greene, Graham

 

Greene, Wallace

 

Greenstein, Fred I.

 

Group

 

Group

 

Gruening, Ernest

 

Guam conference

 

Gulf of Tonkin incidents (1964),

 

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

 

Haiphong

 

1946 battle in

 

blockade of harbor

 

mining of harbor of

 

Halberstam, David

 

Hamburger Hill

 

Hamlet Evaluation Survey

 

Hanoi

 

“hard hat” riot (New York City, 1970),

 

Harkins, Paul

 

Harriman, W. Averell

 

Harrington, Michael

 

Hart, Frederick

 

Hatfield, Mark

 

Hatfield-McGovern Amendment,

 

Hayden, Tom

 

Heaven on Earth
(movie)

 

Heilbronn, Lisa M

 

Herr, Michael

 

Hersey, John

 

Hersh, Seymour

 

Heston, Charlton

 

Hillendale, Colonel

 

Hilsman, Roger

 

Hiss-Chambers case

 

Hmong army

 

Hoa Hao

 

Ho Chi Minh

 

1946 negotiations in France and,

 

1956 elections and

 

conversion to communism

 

death of

 

Dienbienphu and

 

early life of

 

on French imperialism

 

intransigence of

 

Nghe An Revolt and (1930)

 

in 1920s

 

quoted

 

strategic thinking of:

 

Vietminh (Vietcong) in South

Vietnam and 1954–1959;

policies

during World War II

 

Ho Chi Minh City
See also
Saigon

 

Ho Chi Minh Trail

 

Hoffman, Abbie

 

Hoffman, Julius

 

Honolulu Conference (1966)

 

Hoopes, Townsend

 

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

 

Hue

 

Hull, Cordell

 

Humphrey, Hubert

 

Huong, Tran Van.
See
Tran Van Huong

 

Hussein, Saddam

 

Huynh Phu So

 

Ia Drang Valley, battle of

 

ice cream for the troops

 

Indochinese Communist party

 

Indonesia

 

Intercolonial Union

 

International Control Commission

 

Iran

 

Iraq

 

Iron Triangle

 

Islam

 

Jackson State University

 

Japan

 

domino theory and

 

World War II and

 

Jason Report (urges bombing)

 

Jiang Jieshi

 

JFK
(movie)

 

Johns Hopkins University, LBJ speech at

 

Johnson, Harold K.

 

Johnson, Lady Bird

 

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Johnson administration)

 

antiwar movement and

 

bombing of North Vietnam

 

character sketch

 

decision not to seek reelection

 

diplomatic peace moves of (1965–1967)

 

election of 1964

 

election of 1968

 

enclave strategy

 

escalation of the war

 

on fact-finding mission (1961)

 

health of

 

Khe Sanh and

 

lies of

 

personal background and characteristics of

 

San Antonio formula

 

“Wise Men” group’s advice to

 

Kalb, Bernard

 

Kalisher, Peter

 

Kampuchea
See also
Cambodia

 

Karnow, Stanley

 

Kattenburg, Paul

 

Kennan, George

 

Kennedy, Edward

 

Kennedy, John F. (Kennedy administration), ix

 

assassination of

 

1961 policy deliberations,

 

background and early career of,

 

Diem and

 

inaugural speech of

 

Laos and

 

Kennedy, Robert F.

 

1968 presidential bid

 

assassination of

 

Kent State University

 

Kerrey, Bob

 

Kerry, John (Winter Soldier Investigation)

 

Ketwig, John

 

Khanh, Nguyen.
See
Nguyen Khanh

 

Khe Sanh

 

Khmer

 

Khmer Kampuchea Krom

 

Khmer People’s National Liberation

 

Front

 

Khmer Rouge

 

Khoi, Ngo Dinh

 

Khrushchev, Nikita

 

King, Reverend Martin Luther

 

Kissinger, Henry

 

peace negotiations and

 

Knowland, William

 

Kolko, Gabriel

 

Komer, Robert

 

Kontum

 

Korean War

 

Koster, Samuel

 

Kovic, Ron

 

Krom.
See
Khmer Kampuchea Krom

 

Krulak, Victor (“Brute”)

 

Kubrick, Stanley

 

Kunitz, Stanley J.

 

Kuwait

 

Ky, Nguyen Cao.
See
Nguyen Cao Ky

 

Laird, Melvin R.

 

Lam Son

 

Lam Van Phat

 

land reform

 

Lang Son

 

Laniel, Joseph

 

Lansdale, Edward G.

 

Lao Dong party

 

Laos

 

1961 crisis in

 

bombing of

 

invasion of

 

Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de

 

Law 10/59

 

Leclerc, Jacques Philippe

 

Lederer, William J.

 

Le Duan

 

Le Duc Tho

 

Le Loi

 

Le Van Kim

 

Lemay, Curtis

 

Lemnitzer, Lyman L.

 

Lenin, Vladimir

 

Lewy, Guenter

 

Lin, Maya Ying

 

Lindsay, Mayor John

 

Loc Ninh

 

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.

 

Long, Russell

 

Lon Nol

 

Lord Jim
(Conrad)

 

Lovett, Robert

 

Lowell, Robert

 

Luc Luong Dai Doan Ket

 

Lu Han

 

Luyen, Ngo Dinh

 

MAAG.
See
Military Assistance and

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