Peace and Aggression: A Challenge of Our Time
Joan Rapczynski and Florence Zywocinski
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Lesson Plan #4
Knowing New Terms
Objective
to have the students achieve a good understanding of the key words that are constantly in use in a unit on Vietnam.
Procedure
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1. Put the following terms on the blackboard or on a ditto sheet and discuss them with the class. It is suggested that this be done before the unit is begun.
Key terms:
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1.
Vietminh
—a group controlled by the Communists and headed by Ho Chi Minh; gained power in North Vietnam; fighting broke out between French forces and the Viet Minh in 1946
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Geneva Conference
—April, 1954, an international conference to arrange a peace settlement for Vietnam; representatives of the Vietminh and of the French supported the state of Vietnam; also France, Great Britain, United States, China and Russia; divided Vietnam into two zones; called for the country to be reunited through elections in 1956
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3.
French Indochina
—included Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
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4.
Viet Cong
—also known as the VC; Communist guerillas
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5.
boat people
—refugees who left Vietnam in the late 1970’s
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6.
ARVN
—South Vietnamese army; opposed the Viet Cong
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7.
National Liberation Front
—also known as the NLF; a Political group organized in Hanoi in 1960 to support the Viet Cong
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8.
Ho Chi Minh Trail
—many of the VC supplies and troops came from a system of roads and trails
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9.
Vietnamization
—policy whereby American troops would be replaced by South Vietnamese forces, began in 1969
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10.
DRV
—Democratic Republic of Vietnam; formed September 2, 1945, controlling northern Vietnam
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11.
dissenters
—people who disapprove of certain policies of government or society and let others know how they feel
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12.
aggression
—destructive behavior
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civil disobedience
—deliberately breaking the law because they feel it is unjust or immoral, hoping that this course of action will then change the unjust or immoral law
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14.
containment
—an American policy to stop the spread of communism
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SEATO
—Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sponsored by the Eisenhower administration; an alliance that was to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia; formed to allay the fears of South Vietnam after the Geneva accord in 1954
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communism
—a theory or a system of a social organization based on the holding of property by the government; a system where the state controls the production, the distribution and the consumption of industrial products.
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moratorium
—a temporary suspension of activity
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colonialism
—a policy advocating control over another province or country like that of a mother country
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imperialism
—the policy of extending the rule of an empire or nation over foreign countries either by direct acquisition or by indirect control of economic and political life
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draft dodger
—one who evades or tries to evade compulsory service in the armed forces
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guerilla
—one of a band of independent soldiers who prey on the enemy by harassment, surprise attack, and short, sharp engagements, often behind the lines
