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
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
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
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