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He led the Indochinese Communist Party and fought French, Japanese, and U.S. forces for the independence of Vietnam.

• Dien Bien Phu
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• William Westmoreland

This group, formed by Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups in 1941, declared independence from foreign rule as its single goal.

• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Vietnamese
• French

When this fell to Vietnamese forces in 1959, the French began to leave Vietnam.

• Dien Bien Phu
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Saigon

This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel

• Saigon Accords
• Geneva Accords
• Dien Bien Phu Accords
• Ho Chi Minh Accords

This was based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall to communism one after the other.

• containment
• brinkmanship
• iron curtain
• Domino theory

This was a south Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousands of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officials.

• Vietminh
• Vietcong
• Vietnamese
• French

This allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply military arms to the government opposition group in South Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Vietcong Trail
• Ngo Dinh Diem Trail
• DMZ Trail

This anti-Communist South Vietnam president canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam

• Dien Bien Phu
• Ho Chi Minh
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• William Westmoreland

This granted the U.S. president broad military powers in Vietnam.

• Dien Bien Phu Resolution
• Ho Chi Minh Resolution
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Geneva Accords

Conducted by U.S soldiers, these resulted in the uprooting of Vietnamese villagers with suspected ties to the Vietcong, the killing of their livestock, and the burning of their villages.

• Search-and-destroy missions
• total war
• XYZ Affair
• Operation Rolling Thunder