Where the Domino Fell - America And Vietnam 1945-1995 (63 page)

Salon, Rail

San Antonio formula

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

Schlesinger, James

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman

Seale, Bobby

search-and-destroy missions

ineffectiveness of

SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty

Organization)

secret police

Madame Nehru’s

Ngo Dinah Nehru’s

Seeger, Pete

Shank, Edwin G.

Shapely, Robert

Sharp, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr.

Sheehan, Neil

quoted

Shoup, David

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom

Silvers, Robert B.

Smith, Walter Bedell

Smothers Brothers

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV),

border war between China and (1979)

Somalia

Sorensen, Theodore

Southeast Asia, strategic and economic importance of

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

South Vietnam

1959–1960 political situation in,

corruption in government of

economy of

loss of the war

political instability of (1964–1965),

U.S. aid to
See also
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)

Souvanna Phouma, Prince

Soviet Union

Special Forces (Green Berets)

Spellman, Francis Cardinal

Spock, Dr. Benjamin

Staley, Eugene

Stallone, Sylvester, vii

starvation policy

State Department

State of Vietnam.

Stennis, John C.

Stone, Oliver

in U.S. Army

early life and character of

as historian

in jail

marriage

movies

in New York

and Richard Nixon

novelist

and parents

screenplay writer

and Vietnam

at Yale

Strategic Hamlet Program

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Sukarno

Sully, François

Suu, Phan Khac

Sweeney, Dennia

Tan So Nhut

Tan Son Nhut airbase

Taxi Driver
(movie)

Taylor, Maxwell

television

10/59 campaign

Tet II (1968)

Tet offensive (1968)

tactical disaster and strategic

victory

Tet offensive (1969)

Thailand (formerly Siam)

Than Van Dong

Thanh, Nguyen Chi.
See
Nguyen Chi Thanh

Thao, Pham Ngoc.
See
Pham Ngoc Thao

Thich Qui Quang

Thieu, Nguyen Van.
See
Nguyen Van

Thieu

Tho, Le Duc

Thomas, Norman

Thompson, Robert

Thuc, Ngo Dinh.
See
Ngo Dinh Thuc

Ticonderoga
, USS

Timmes, Charles J.

Tompkins, Rathvan

Tonkin, North Vietnam

Ton That Dinh

Tracks
(film)

Tran Do

Tran Le Xuan

Tran Thien Kheim

Tran Van Chuong

Tran Van Don

Tran Van Huong

Tran Van Tra

Trieu Au

Trung sisters

Truman, Harry S.

Truman Doctrine

Turkey

Turley, William

Turner, Nick

Ugly American, The
(Lederer and Burdick)

Uncertain Trumpet, The
(Maxwell Taylor)

United Action

United States

aid to France

anticommunism in

antiwar movement.
See
antiwar movement

United States embassy

1965 car bombing of

1968 Vietcong attack on,
see
Tet Offensive

United States troops

AWOL rates among

drug abuse among

fragging epidemic

race divisions
See also
Bravo Company

University of Michigan, first antiwar teach-in (1965)

Vann, John Paul

Van Tien Dung

Vietcong, ix

1963 strength of

1964 growing strength of

Chieu Hoi (Open Arms Program) and increasing aggressiveness of (1964)

land mines used by

North Vietnamese support of,
See also
North Vietnam, infiltration of personnel and supplies

Phoenix Program and

Strategic Hamlet Program and,

and Tet Offensive

weapons of
See also
communist forces; National Liberation Front (NLF); Vietminh

Viet Cuoung Hotel

Vietminh

Vietnam

landscape

map of North/South division, invasions and evacuations (1945–1975)
See also
North Vietnam;

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV)

Vietnamese National Army

Vietnamese Special Forces

Vietnamization policy

Vietnam Lobby (American Friends of

Vietnam)

Vietnam Moratorium Committee,

Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnam Nationalist party)

Vietnam veterans
See also
Rambo movies

Vietnam War Memorial

Vietnam Women’s Memorial

village culture

Vinh Yen

Vo Nguyen, Giap.
See
Giap Vo Nguyen

Vung Tau Charter

Vuong Van Dong

Wallace, George

Wall Street Journal

Walt, Lewis

War Powers Resolution (1973)

War Resisters League (WRL)

War Zone D.

Washington, George

Watergate scandal

Wayne, John

weather and climate

West Berlin

Westmoreland, William C.

quoted:

advocates invading Laos and Cambodia

gloomy predictions in private

Khe Sanh and

killing machine

on McGeorge Bundy

resignation of

speaks to Congress (1967)

strategic thinking of

Tet offensive and

troop requests by

Wheeler, Earle G.

White, Theodore H.

White House Festival of the Arts,

Wilson, Harold

Wicker, Tom

Williams, Samuel (“Hanging Sam”)

Wilson, Charles E.

Wilson, Harold

Winter Soldier Investigation.
See
Kerry, John

Wise Men

women, American

Women’s Solidarity Movement and

Paramilitary Girls

World War II

movies

Xuan Thuy

Yippies (Youth International party),

Zedong, Mao.
See
Mao Zedong

Zhou Enlai

Maps

Indochina, 1995. Inset: A comparison in size between Vietnam and United States.

 

Vietnam, showing 1954 North/South division, and routes of invasions and evacuations, 1945 to 1975.