INTERACTIVE WORD OF THE DAY LIST
SOUTHEAST ASIA
(Texas A&M)
THE MODERN ERA
VIETNAM Vietnam (see map above) is one of the four remaining communist nations in the world. The United States only recently reopened the lines of political and economic education with the Vietnamese since the Vietnam War.
CONTAINMENT- Containment was the US foreign policy after WWII that attempted to prevent the spread of communism in the Cold War.
HO CHI MINH Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of North Vietnam. During WWII he led guerilla forces against the Japanese and continued to fight for Vietnamese independence against the French and then the United States.
(Hodges)
DIEN BIEN PHU- Dien Bien Phu, the last battle between the Communist North Vietnamese and the French in 1954, saw the French surrender and final withdrawal from Vietnam.
VIETNAM WAR The Vietnam War was a major conflict in the Cold War that saw the North Vietnamese led by Ho Chi Minh verses the noncommunist South supported by the French and then the United States. In 1954 Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel into Communist North and United States/Democratic South. After the United States withdrew by 1973, and a total of thirty years of fighting for independence, the North eventually won in 1975.
(Vietnam Legion)
GUERILLA WARFARE Guerilla warfare is a type of fighting that pits a smaller force against a larger one. The smaller group usually uses hit and run tactics and sabotage in an attempt to demoralize their opposition. Attacking in small numbers and them hiding in the safety of the jungle allowed the Viet Cong (Communist North Vietnamese sent to the South to carry out sabotage) to fight in South Vietnam for many years.
HO CHI MINH TRAIL - The Ho Chi Minh Trial was a network of trails and roads from North Vietnam to the South that was used by the North Vietnamese to carry weapons and supplies to the Viet Cong in the South.
(Ford)
(Cambodia: The Country to Visit))
GENOCIDE - murder of an entire ethnic group: the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this
[Mid-20th century. Coined from Greek genos, race + -CIDE.][1]
[cide from the Latin cida to kill]
(Encarta).
KHMER ROUGE Khmer Rouge, an ethnic group in Cambodia (see map above) was responsible for the genocide in 1975 - 1978. Up to1.7 million people were killed in the violent communist take over.
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POL POT was the leader of the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia who wanted to establish an agrarian paradise in Cambodia from 1975-1978.
(Cambodia)
HUMAN RIGHTS Human rights are the freedoms every person is born with and they include the right to clean air and water, political, religious and economic freedom.
WORKS CITED
Cambodia. www.info-regenten. 11/0802. http://www.info-regenten.de/regent/
regent-e/cambodia.htm
Cambodia: The Country to Visit. 11/08/02. http://www.angkor-wat-net.com/about-country.htm
Ford, Daniel. The Warbirds Forum. 11/0802. http://www.danford.net/homework.htm
newgenevacenter.org. 10/31/02. http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/ho-chi-minh.jpg
Hodges, Miles. New Geneva. 11/22/02. http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/ho-chi-minh.jpg.
copyright asiafoto.com. 11/18/02.
http://www.asiafoto.com/cambodia/
Texas A&M University Library. 10/31/02. http://library.tamu.edu/maps/cia/ciaSEAsia.html.
Vietnam Legion Vetern's Association. 11/6/02. http://www.gbkgraphics.com/digger/history.htm