Who`s Who in the Vietnam War

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President 1953-1961 Sent advisors “Tea and Tungsten”

Nixon •President 1969-1974 •Resigned after Watergate •Vietnamization-return war to S.V. and decrease U.S. troops

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President 1961-1963 Assassinated Increased advisors to 16,000 before his death

L.B.J •V.P J.F.K •President 1963-1969 •Gulf of Tonkin Resolution •Escalated War

ROBERT MCNAMARA   

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1961-1968 under JFK & LBJ Increased troops Believed in Domino Theory Lost hope in winning the war Resigned in 1968

CLARK CLIFFORD  

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1968-1969 under LBJ Did not agree with increase in troops Ended up losing hope in war & felt it should be handed over to South Vietnam

MELVIN LAIRD  

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1969-1973 under Nixon Invented term Vietnamization Wanted an end to the draft & stopped it 5 mths early

JAMES SCHLESINGER  

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1973-1975 under Nixon & Ford Did not want to give amnesty for draft dodgers & believed in increasing Increased defense budget nuclear weapons Dismissed by Ford

•Deals with foreign policy •and affairs overseas •Immigration & foreign Travel

HENRY KISSINGER  

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1973-1977 under Nixon & Ford Helped with Vietnamization Also supported secret bombing of Cambodia Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for Paris Peace Accords ending U/S. involvement in Vietnam

GEN. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND 

Commander of U.S. Military operations in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968

GEN. CREIGHTON ABRAMS 

Commander of U.S. military operations in Vietnam 1968-1972

GEN. FREDERICK WEYAND  

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Led 25th Division 1964-1967 Did not agree with Westmoreland Helped with Paris Peace Talks Took over for Abrams from 1972-1973 Supervised last troops out of Vietnam

NGO DINH DIEM (NO)  

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President South Vietnam 1955-1963 Assassinated 1963 Anti-Buddhist

NGO DINH NHU (NO DINH NEW)  

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Diem’s brother and right hand man Assassinated with Diem Wife Madame Nhu 1st Lady

Dragon Lady

NGUYEN VAN THIEU (NEW EN)  

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Was general in ARVN President South Vietnam 1965-1975 Elected through fraud & was authoritative in rule Resigned a few days before the fall of South Vietnam

NGO QUANG TRUONG (NO)  

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General ARVN 1972-1975 Fall of Saigon immigrated to U.S. Lives in Virginia as U.S. Citizen

HO CHI MINH     

Freedom fighter Prime Minister 1945-1955 President North Vietnam 1955-1969 Died 1969 of heart failure at 79; body embalmed Communist

PHAM VAN DONG (FAM) 

Prime Minister North Vietnam 1955-1987

LE DOC THO (LEE DOC TOE)  

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Politician North Vietnam Negotiated Paris Peace Accords Refused the Noble Peace Prize

VO NGUYEN GIAP (VO NEW) 

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General during first Indochina war and Vietnam war At Dien Bien Phu & Tet Major military leader

LE TRONG TAN (LEE TRONG TAAN)   

Part of Viet Minh against French Deputy Commander VietCong Secretary Defense in Vietnam until 1986

POL POT  

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Chinese Revolutionary leader Leader of the Khmer Rouge Became leader Cambodia around 1975 until Cambodia-Vietnam War began in 1979 21% people died under his rule

KHIEU SAMPHAN (Q SAM PAN)  

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President of Cambodia 1976-1979 Key leader Khmer Rouge Still denies genocide

MAO ZEDONG    

Chinese revolutionary Leader 1949-1976 Had “The Great Leap Forward” Communist Died 1976 of heart attack