Harry Truman
Mao Zedong
Douglas MacArthur
Matthew Ridgway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Syngman Rhee
John Foster Dulles
Robert S. McNamara
John F. Kennedy
Ho Chi Minh
Vo Nguyen Giap
Ngo Dinh Diem
Lyndon B. Johnson
William C. Westmoreland
Nguyen Van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Richard M. Nixon
Creighton W. Abrams
Henry Kissinger
Le Duc Tho
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Casper Weinberger
containment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
National Defense Act of 1947 (amended 1949)
NSC-68
Republic of Korea
Korean War (1950-53)
Pusan perimeter
Inchon
North Korean People’s Army
38th parallel
Iron Triangle
The New Look
NSC-162/2
Massive Retaliation
Nuclear deterrence
First strike
Second strike
Counterforce
Countervalue
Federal Republic of Germany
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Taiwan
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Minh
Baghdad Pact/Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
Fidel Castro
systems analysis
Flexible Response
Assured Destruction/Mutually Assured Destruction
Strategic weapons:
ICBM’s
IRBM’s
SLBM’s
MIRV’s
ABM’s
strategic triad
Limited Test Ban Treaty
counterinsurgency
air cavalry
wars of national liberation
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
ARVN – Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army)
DRV – Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
GVN – Government of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
NVA – North Vietnamese Army
MACV – Military Assistance Command Vietnam
VC – Viet Cong
Geneva Peace Accords
National Liberation Front
pacification
strategic hamlet program
Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG)
Buddhist monks
Ho Chi Minh Trail
graduated pressure/gradual escalation
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Great Society
Operation ROLLING THUNDER
Laos
Cambodia
search & destroy
Operation ARC LIGHT
Ia Drang
Office of Civil Operations and Rural Development Support (CORDS)
Operation PHOENIX
“General Offensive – General Uprising”
Khe Sanh
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
Operation COMMANDO HUNT
LAM SON 719
Easter Offensive
Operation LINEBACKER (I & II)
Paris Peace Accords
détente
Nixon Doctrine
War Powers Resolution, 1973
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, 1974
Salvador Allende
strategic sufficiency
Strategic Arms Control Limitation Talks (I)
ABM Treaty
Interim Agreement
Vladivostok Accords
All Volunteer Force
Strategic Arms Control Limitation Talks (II)
Treaty
Harold Brown
countervailing strategy
MX/Peacekeeper Missile
Neutron bomb
“Two-Track” policy
Cap David Accords
Iranian Revolution
Hostage crisis
Invasion of Afghanistan
Carter Doctrine
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF)
Operation EAGLE CLAW
Reagan Doctrine
Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Treaty
Reykjavik
Pershing II
AirLand Battle
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
El Salvador, Frente Martí Liberación Nacional (FMLN)
Nicaragua, contras
Afghanistan, mujaheddin
Grenada
Libya, Muammar Gaddafi
Achille Lauro
Hezbollah
Iran-Iraq War, 1980-88
U.S.S. Stark
Iran-Contra Affair
Mikhail Gorbachev
perestroїka, glasnost
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty), 1990
START Treaty, 1991
Manuel Noriega
Operation JUST CAUSE
Saddam Hussein
Persian Gulf War, 1990-91
Operation DESERT SHIELD
Colin L. Powell/Powell Doctrine
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Operation DESERT STORM
Great Scud Hunt
Republican Guard