Who`s Who in the Vietnam War
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EISENHOWER
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
J.F.K
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
1961-1968 under JFK & LBJ
Increased troops
Believed in Domino Theory
Lost hope in winning the
war
Resigned in 1968
CLARK CLIFFORD
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
1969-1973 under Nixon
Invented term
Vietnamization
Wanted an end to the draft
& stopped it 5 mths early
JAMES SCHLESINGER
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
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
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)
President South Vietnam
1955-1963
Assassinated 1963
Anti-Buddhist
NGO DINH NHU
(NO DINH NEW)
Diem’s brother and right
hand man
Assassinated with Diem
Wife Madame Nhu 1st Lady
Dragon Lady
NGUYEN VAN THIEU
(NEW EN)
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)
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)
Politician North Vietnam
Negotiated Paris Peace
Accords
Refused the Noble Peace
Prize
VO NGUYEN GIAP
(VO NEW)
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
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)
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