VC, Viet Cong, Insurgency, Fighting against a government, Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese leader (Died 1969), Viet Minh, North Vietnamese Independence Fighters, Dien Dien Phu, French defeat - 1954, Domino Theory, If Vietnam falls - so will rest of South East Asia, Napalm and Agent Orange, Chemical defoliants, Body Count, US strategy to kill as many VC as possible, Search + Destroy, US military strategy using helicopters, Holding onto the belt, VC strategy- get close to US to avoid being bombarded, Strategic Hamlets, Fortified villages- to keep VC out, Pinkville, US name for My Lai, Fragging, Killing a senior officer (grenade), Cu Chi, 250km VC tunnel system (North of Saigon), Operation Rolling Thunder, US bombing campaign (3 years), Operation Ranch Hand, US spraying chemical defoliants, ARVN, South Vietnamese regular army, NLF, National Liberation Front (of Vietnam), Punjis, VC traps, PAVN, North Vietnamese regular army

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