Where the Domino Fell - America And Vietnam 1945-1995 (62 page)

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Authors: James S. Olson,Randy W. Roberts

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Advisory Group

 

MacArthur, Douglas

 

McCain, John

 

McCain, Admiral John, Jr.

 

McCarthy, Eugene

 

McCarthy, Joseph

 

McCloy, John

 

McCone, John

 

McCormack, John

 

Macdonald, Dwight

 

McGee, Frank

 

McGovern, George

 

McNamara, Robert S., x

 

electronic barrier proposed by

 

hawkish advice

 

memoirs of

 

resignation of

 

MACV.
See
Military Assistance

 

Command, Vietnam

 

Maddox
, USS

 

“madman strategy”

 

Mahayana Buddhism

 

Mailer, Norman

 

Malaya

 

mandarins (mandarin system)

 

Mansfield, Mike

 

Mao Zedong

 

quoted

 

Marine Corps, U.S.

 

Marshall, George C.

 

Marshall Plan

 

Martin, Graham

 

Martin, Joseph

 

Martin, Pepper

 

Medicare

 

Mekong River Delta

 

Mendenhall, Joseph

 

Mendes-France, Pierre

 

Metcalf, Lee

 

military advisors, U.S.

 

Military Assistance and Advisory

 

Group (MAAG)

 

Military Assistance Command,

 

Vietnam (MACV)

 

warns of growing North Vietnamese strength

 

military personnel, U.S.
See
United States troops

 

Military Revolutionary Council (South Vietnam)

 

Minh, Duong Van (“Big”)

 

Mohr, Charles

 

Molotov, Vyacheslav

 

Montagnard

 

Moore, Robin

 

Moorer, Thomas

 

Morse, Wayne

 

Movies
See also individual movies

 

Munich analogy

 

Murphy, Robert

 

Muste, A. J.

 

My Lai massacre

 

Nam Dinh, battle of

 

napalm

 

nationalism, Vietnamese

 

National Liberation Front (NLF),
See also
Vietcong

 

National Security Adviser Memorandum (NSAM)

 

National Security Council (NSC),

 

National Youth Administration

 

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

 

Navarre, Henri

 

Navarre Plan

 

New Hampshire, Democratic party primary in (1968)

 

New Look defense policy

 

New York City

 

New York University (NYU)

 

New Zealand

 

Nghe An, 1930 revolt in

 

Ngo Dinh Can

 

Ngo Dinh Diem.
See
Diem

 

Ngo Dinh Kha

 

Ngo Dinh Nhu

 

Ngo Dinh Thuc

 

Ngo family

 

Ngo Van Chieu

 

Nguyen Cao Ky

 

Nguyen Chi Thanh

 

Nguyen Khanh

 

Nguyen Luong Bang

 

Nguyen Ngoc Loan

 

Nguyen Thi Binh

 

Nguyen Thai Hoc

 

Nguyen Van Thieu

 

after 1973 peace treaty

 

final North Vietnamese offensive of

 

1974–1975 and

 

Nhu, Ngo Dinh.
See
Ngo Dinh Nhu

 

Nixon
(movie)

 

Nixon, Richard M. (Nixon administration)

 

Cambodia and

 

election of 1968

 

elections of 1972

 

“madman strategy” of

 

My Lai massacre and

 

parole of William Calley

 

peace negotiations

 

personal background and characteristics of

 

Vietnamization and

 

Watergate scandal and

 

Nolting, Frederick

 

North Korea

 

North Vietnam
See also
Giap, Vo Nguyen; Ho Chi Minh

 

bombing of

 

Nixon and

 

final offensive (1974–1975)

 

Gulf of Tonkin incidents and,

 

infiltration of personnel and supplies into South Vietnam by,
See also
Ho Chi Minh Trail

 

North Vietnamese Army (NVA)

 

novels

 

nuclear weapons

 

nuoc mam

 

nurses, American

 

Ochs, Phil

 

O’Donnell, Larry

 

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

 

On the Trail of the Assassins
(Garrison)

 

Open Arms Program (Chieu Hoi)

 

Operation Apache Snow

 

Operation Attleboro

 

Operation Bravo

 

Operation Cedar Falls

 

Operation Chaos

 

Operation Complete Victory

 

Operation Delaware

 

Operation Desert Storm

 

Operation Eagle Pull

 

Operation Farmgate

 

Operation Frequent Wind

 

Operation Junction City

 

Operation Linebacker

 

Operation Linebacker II

 

Operation Mayflower

 

Operation Menu

 

Operation Neutralize

 

Operation Niagara

 

Operation Plan 34-A (Oplan 34-A)

 

Operation Ranch Hand

 

Operation Rolling Thunder

 

pause in

 

Operation Shufly

 

Operations Plan

 

Operation Starlight

 

Operation Virginia Ridge

 

Operation Vulture

 

opium

 

Ovnand, Chester

 

pacification programs

 

Paris, Treaty of (1973)

 

partition of Vietnam

 

Pathet Lao

 

peace movement.
See
antiwar movement

 

peace treaty.
See
Paris, Treaty of (1973)

 

Pentagon Papers
See also
Ellsberg, Daniel

 

Perelman, S. J.

 

Persian Gulf War

 

Personalistic Labor Revolutionary Party.
See
Can Lao

 

Pham Cong Tac

 

Pham Ngo Tjae

 

Pham Ngoc Thao

 

Pham Van Dong

 

Phan Boi Chau

 

Phan Chu Trinh

 

Phat, Lam Van

 

Philippines, the

 

Phnom Penh

 

Phoenix Program

 

Phouma, Souvanna

 

Phu Bai, air base at

 

Phuoc Long province

 

Piroth, Charles

 

Plain of Jars

 

Platoon
(movie)

 

Pleiku, attack on (1965)

 

Plei Me, attack on

 

Poison Plot (1907)

 

Pol Pot

 

popular culture
See also
movies; television

 

POW–MIA controversy

 

Press, the

 

prisoners of war (POWs).
See
POW–MIA controversy

 

Pueblo
, USS

 

Quang, Thich Tri

 

Quang Tri City

 

Quiet American, The
(Greene),

 

Quynh, Father Hoang

 

“R and R” (rest and recreation)

 

race riots

 

Radford, Arthur

 

Rambo
movies, vii

 

Reagan, Ronald

 

Red River Delta

 

Republican party

 

1968 election and

 

Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)

 

reunification of Vietnam

 

Rhodes, Father Alexandre de

 

Ridenhour, Ronald

 

Ridgway, Matthew

 

Robinson, James

 

Rockefeller, Nelson

 

Rogers, William P.

 

Roman Catholics

 

immigration from North to South Vietnam

 

in South Vietnam

 

Romney, George

 

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

 

Rostow, Walt W.

 

Rotter, Andrew

 

Rubin, Jerry

 

Rusk, Dean

 

Sac, Nguyen Sinh

 

Saigon
See also
Ho Chi Minh City

 

communist takeover of

 

evacuation of

 

events in

 

during Tet offensive (1968)

 

Sainteny, Jean

 

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