1: The dividing line between the American and Soviet zones was the 38th parallel, which roughly divided the country in two.
2: was an American general best known for his command of Allied forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
3: He was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century.
4: After Eisenhower's speech, the phrase “domino theory” began to be used as a shorthand expression of the strategic importance of South Vietnam to the United States, as well as the need to contain the spread of communism throughout the world.
5: Vietnamese political leader who served as president, with dictatorial powers, of what was then South Vietnam, from 1955 until his assassination.
6: were South Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
7: of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
8 : was a brutal regime that ruled Cambodia, under the leadership of Marxist dictator Pol Pot, from 1975 to 1979.
