Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10479-2 — Vietnam's American War Pierre Asselin Index More Information 267 Index Acheson, Dean, 58 , 59 Association of Annamese Patriots, 31 Afghanistan, 2 , 5 , 8 , 242 Association of Southeast Asian Nations “Agent Orange”, 6 , 237 (ASEAN), 3 , 247 Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities August Revolution (1945), 42 – 4 , 100 in Vietnam (1954). See Geneva accords Australia, 118 on Vietnam Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina, 50 Agroville program, 104 Algeria, 105 , 119 , 120 , 143 – 5 , 152 Ba Dinh Square (Hanoi), 44 Ali, Muhammad, 147 , 161 (Note 16) Baader- Meinhof Group. See Red Army American War Crimes Investigative Faction Commission, 145 Bac Ky/ Bo, 20 , 21 . See also Tonkin Ang, Cheng Guan, 181 Bach Dang River, 16 , 17 Angkor, 18 Ban Me Thuot, 41 , 156 , 228 Angola, 3 , 240 Bangkok, 52 Annam, 20 , 21 , 35 , 36 , 40 , 43 , 49 , 50 , 89 . Bao Dai, 40 . See also SOVN See also Trung Ky/Bo abdication from throne, 43 in Indochina War, 52 , 61 , 66 , 79 Japanese puppet regime under, 40 , 43 “Anti- American Resistance for National as SOVN leader, 56 , 59 , 74 – 5 , 84 Salvation”, 119 as Supreme Adviser to DRVN Anti- Party affair, 154 – 5 , 167 government, 44 Ao dai , 175 “Bao Dai solution”. See Élysée Agreement Ap Bac, 106 Batista, Fulgencio, 95 Armed Propaganda Unit for National “Battle of the Flags” (1973), 210 , 220 Liberation, 40 . See also People’s Army Bazin, Alfred François, 29 of Vietnam Belgium, 54 Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Berlin Blockade (1948– 9), 58 96 , 98 , 99 , 104 , 106 , 115 , 118 , 224 , Berlin Summit (1953), 66 225 , 227 – 9 , 232 Bidault, George, 70 casualties, 114 , 149 , 150 , 184 – 5 , 194 , 252 Bien Hoa, 116 collapse, 228 – 9 Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), 248 combat strength/ capabilities, 2 , 149 , Binh van , 119 , 151 126 , 151 , 194 , 212 Black Panther Party (US), 147 postwar treatment of soldiers, 235 Blum, Léon, 36 . See also Popular Front 267 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10479-2 — Vietnam's American War Pierre Asselin Index More Information 268 268 Index “Boat people”, 239 , 243 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 42 , 81 Bolivia, 140 Central Military Commission (VWP), 18 Bolshevik Party, 26 . See also Communist Central Ofi ce for Southern Vietnam Party of the Soviet Union (COSVN), 89 , 103 , 114 , 124 , 154 , Bolshevik Revolution. See Russian 155 , 184 , 244 . See also Nam Bo Revolution Executive Committee Bradley, Mark Philip, 146 Champa, 18 Brazil, 140 Chiang Kai- shek, 49 , 52 , 56 , 93 . See also Brezhnev, Leonid, 192 , 193 . See also Guomindang , Taiwan Soviet Union Chieu hoi program, 151 Brigade 125, 95 Chile, 218 Britain. See United Kingdom China, 8 , 19 , 22 , 23 , 38 . See also Chiang Bu Gia Map, 227 Kai- shek , Guomindang , Mao Zedong , Bui Chu, 75 People’s Republic of China Bui Xuan Phai, 195 civil war in, 48 , 52 – 3 , 56 , 67 Bukharin, Nikolai, 39 as haven for Vietnamese Burma, 52 , 58 nationalists, 32 Japanese invasion of, 41 Ca Mau Peninsula, 24 , 98 occupations and invasions of Vietnam, Cambodia, 4 , 7 , 20 , 58 , 73 , 74 , 224 , 227 . 8 , 16 – 7 , 19 See also Angkor , Khmer Rouge , Revolution of 1911, 28 Pol Pot , Lon Nol rise of communism in, 31 , 39 fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 38 , 39 , Rouge, 230 – 1 52 – 3 , 56 , 105 , 188 (Figure 5.2) , 189 and France, 21 , 56 Chinese Military Advisory Group and Geneva Conference/ accords, 74 (CMAG), 57 , 59 in Indochina War, 61 , 73 “Christmas bombing”. See Linebacker II 1970 coup in, 183 – 4 Civil Operations and Revolutionary 1970 invasion by US/ ARVN forces, 11 , Development Support (CORDS), 183 – 4 , 187 151 – 2 , 166 , 173 , 174 , 191 1978- 9 Vietnamese invasion of, 12 , Clinton, William “Bill”, 247 241 – 2 , 246 Cochinchina, 21 , 22 , 29 , 30 , 33 , 36 , 43 , and Vietnam War, 97 , 98 , 115 , 131 , 193 50 . See also Autonomous Republic of and Vietnamese Revolution, 33 – 4 , 60 Cochinchina , Nam Ky/ Bo Can Vuong movement, 21 , 28 in American War, 174 Canada, 4 , 137 , 160 (Note 1) , 165 , 209 in Indochina War, 56 , 66 , 79 Canton. See Guangzhou Cold War, 3 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 59 , 112 , 140 , 177 , Cao Bang, 38 , 39 , 60 185 , 252 Cao Dai, 53 , 84 de- escalation of, 219 Carter, Jimmy, 242 , 247 origins, 45 , 52 Castro, Fidel, 3 , 95 , 141 , 149 small states in, 141 Central Committee (VWP), 13 , 76 , 86 , and Vietnam, 4 , 56 , 60 , 63 , 111 , 113 , 90 , 106 , 179 . See also Resolution 148 , 187 , 218 15 , Resolution 9 , Resolution 21 , Colonial Administrative School Vietnamese Workers’ Party (France), 30 Fifteenth Plenum, 13 , 94 – 6 (Figure 3.1) Comintern, 33 , 37 – 8 Ninth Plenum, 13 , 107 – 9 creation, 28 and NLF, 103 dissolution, 41 and Tet Offensive, 152 , 154 Communism. See Marxism- Leninism Twenty- First Plenum, 222 – 3 Communist International. See Comintern Central Highlands, 41 , 115 , 116 , 119 , 126 , Communist Party of Indochina (CPI), 127 , 223 , 225 , 228 , 230 32 – 3 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10479-2 — Vietnam's American War Pierre Asselin Index More Information 269 Index 269 Communist Party of the Soviet Union children in, 122 , 129 (Figure 4.1) , 147 , (CPSU), 26 , 85 , 245 . See also 150 , 211 Bolshevik Party Chinese troops in, 128 , 138 Communist Party of the United States, 58 communist transformation of, 86 , 92 , Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), 94 , 106 , 132 , 139 , 203 12 – 3 , 236 , 240 , 249 . See also Socialist constitutions of, 48 , 99 , 234 Republic of Vietnam diplomatic struggle of, 61 – 2 , 119 – 21 , pro- Chinese faction in, 240 142 – 9 , 174 , 179 , 182 , 212 – 3 Seventh Congress, 245 dissidence in, 81 , 129 – 30 , 165 – 6 Sixth Congress, 244 – 5 domestic propaganda, 128 – 32 , 206 purge of, 243 economic rehabilitation/ reconstruction Comprehensive Cambodian Peace of, 82 – 3 , 88 , 92 , 106 , 133 , 139 , 171 , Agreement, 246 173 , 216 , 219 Con Dao, 24 , 28 economic situation in, 81 – 3 , 99 , 106 , Congress (US), 56 , 59 , 201 , 224 . See also 132 – 3 , 171 , 187 , 195 , 203 , 211 – 2 United States i ve- year plan (1961– 5), 99 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 113 – 4 foreign visitors to, 132 , 142 – 3 and Indochina War, 56 , 73 founding, 44 and Vietnam War, 120 , 200 , 222 , four- point peace proposal of, 137 225 , 227 and Geneva Conference/ accords, War Powers Act, 223 73 – 7 , 79 Containment. See Truman Doctrine industrial sector in, 92 , 117 (Note 4) , Coup of 9 March 1945, 40 – 2 133 , 171 Cronkite, Walter, 157 ini ltration of men and supplies in South Cu Chi, 126 , 127 Vietnam, 96 , 112 , 114 – 5 , 127 , 151 , Cuba, 3 , 95 , 141 , 144 , 149 195 , 223 Cuban missile crisis, 106 internationalism, 53 , 110 – 2 , 119 , 136 , Cuong De, 28 144 , 148 – 9 Czechoslovakia, 167 , 168 . See also land reform in, 62 , 82 , 85 Prague Spring military conscription in, 59 , 121 military struggle of, 118 – 9 D’Argenlieu, Thierry, 50 militias in, 121 , 122 Da Nang, 14 , 151 , 152 , 156 , 230 National Assembly, 48 , 85 , 135 Dai Nam, 20 – 1 . See also Vietnam and negotiations with US, 170 , 175 , Dai Viet, 16 – 9 . See also Vietnam 192 , 196 – 9 Dan cong , 67 , 68 (Figure 2.1) , 69 , 71 1956 liberalization in, 85 – 7 De Behaine, Pigneau, 19 1964 “Winter- Spring Campaign” De Gaulle, Charles, 37 , 41 , 42 , 44 – 5 , 149 of, 15 – 6 Declaration of Independence (US), 31 , 44 and normalization of relations with Declaration of Independence (Vietnam), Washington, 215 – 6 17 , 44 – 5 and origins of war with US, 59 Declaration of the Rights of Man and and Paris agreement, 211 , 213 Citizen (France), 44 and “peaceful coexistence” policy, 85 – 7 , Demilitarized zone (DMZ), 76 , 200 – 2 , 207 94 , 106 , 115 , 138 , 139 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as police state, 110 (DPRK). See North Korea political struggle of, 119 , 124 , 160 , Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN). 173 – 4 , 212 – 3 See also Ho Chi Minh , Le Duan , professed commitment to nationalism Vietnamese Workers’ Party and patriotism, 61 agricultural collectivization in, 92 rejection of negotiations by, 134 – 7 air defenses, 128 , 191 – 2 , 195 , 203 , 204 , relations with Soviet Union, 61 , 167 – 8 , 212 219 , 224 , 225 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10479-2 — Vietnam's American War Pierre Asselin Index More Information 270 270 Index Democratic Republic of Vietnam East Europe, 4 , 45 , 55 , 58 , 88 , 144 , 245 (DRVN) (cont.) East Germany, 142 relations with PRC, 61 , 64 , 167 , 180 , East Sea. See South China Sea 185 – 91 , 195 , 211 – 2 , 219 – 20 , 224 – 5 Easter Offensive (1972). See Spring reporting of casualties in, 236 Offensive as revolutionary “rear base”, 83 , 99 , Egypt, 91 , 111 , 141 , 145 103 , 132 , 206 Eisenhower, Dwight, 63 , 170 social problems in, 217 and Indochina War, 64 , 70 , 73 Soviet advisers in, 224 El Salvador, 3 strategy in American War, 118 – 9 , 127 , Elliott, David, 112 , 120 , 223 138 , 166 Ély, Paul, 69 , 70 “Three Readinesses” campaign, 121 Élysée Agreement, 55 – 6 “Three Responsibilities” campaign, 121 “Emergency” (Malaya), 93 three- year plan (1959– 61), 92 Empire of Vietnam (1945), 40 and US bombings, 6 , 11 , 118 , 127 – 9 , European Defense Community 132 – 3 , 150 , 163 , 170 , 171 , 193 , 195 , (EDC), 54 202 – 4 , 206 , 207 , 211 and US mining of harbors, 193 , 195 Fall, Bernard, 71 and US POWs, 128 – 9 First Indochina War. See Indochina War and Vietnamization, 173 – 4 , 184 – 5 Fonda, Jane, 143 wartime civilian morale in, 128 , 131 , Fontainebleau Conference (1946), 50 , 150 , 171 , 195 – 6 , 211 – 2 , 216 – 7 73 , 105 women in, 33 , 121 – 2 , 130 – 1 , 250 , 252 Ford, Gerald, 225 , 227 , 231 Deng Xiaoping, 240 , 242 Foreign Legion (France), 24 , 53 , 63 , 70 “Denounce the Communists” campaign, 84 Foreign Relations Commission Department of Defense (US), 73 (NLF), 103 , 145 .