Ngo Dinh Diem - Catholic President of South Vietnam with corrupt government that suppressed opposition., Persecuted Buddhists, moved villagers away from their ancestral homes. - Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietcong (National Liberation Front) - Undercover, secret communist group in South Vietnam., Assassinated thousands of South Vietnamese government officals. - Vietcong (National Liberation Front), Ho Chi Minh Trail - Paths along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia by which arms were brought to the Vietcong in South Vietnam., U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson  - Did not want to appear soft on communism; went forward with sending troops into Vietnam., Tonkin Gulf Incident - August 2, 1964: A North Vietnamese patrol boat fires a torpedo at the USS Maddox but misses. The Maddox returns fire and hits the patrol boat., Tonkin Gulf Resolution - LBJ granted broad military powers in Vietnam. Not a declaration of war., Pentagon Papers - Showed LBJ had prepared the resolution in advance and was waiting for an incident to happen., Vietnam War Begins - February, 1965, March of 1965 - The first US combat troops arrived in South Vietnam., Operation Rolling Thunder - First sustained bombing of North Vietnam.,

Module 16-L1: "History" (V. & VII.)

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