Category: Who was the enemy?

What do the following terms: “enemy,” “ally,” “neutral,” “civilians,” “combatants” -- mean in the context of a war?
What is a war?
What are some of the different kinds of war?
What are “guerrilla” wars?

What does the United States Constitution require for a declaration of war?
Why were the armed conflicts in Korea and Vietnam not technically designated as a “war?” (They are listed as “conflicts.”)

What constitutes a “just war?”
Are there rules of war?

What is a war crime?
What is a war criminal?

What was the French Empire?
What was the Viet Minh?
What was the “Viet Cong?”
What was the National Liberation Front?
What was the Peoples Army of Vietnam?
What was the Army of the Republic of Vietnam?

Did the United States invade Vietnam or did Vietnam invade the United States?

What is imperialism?
What is Communism?
What is capitalism?
What is a Communist?
What is anti-communism?
Can a Communist also be a nationalist?
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
What did Communism have to do with the war in Vietnam?
Did the United States as a matter of policy refuse to recognize all the governments of all Communist countries? Why not?

What role did the United States play in creating the government of “South Vietnam?”
Was the government of “South Vietnam” democratically elected by the people of “South Vietnam?”

What is a peasant?
What was rural life like in Vietnam?
How did life differ for city dwellers in Vietnam?
Where did most of the Roman Catholic Vietnamese people live?

What happened in the Tonkin Gulf in the summer of 1964? Did this constitute grounds for war or a declaration of war?

Who opposed the American war effort in Vietnam?
Were people who opposed the American war in Vietnam patriots, or “anti-American/un-American? Who deserved the title of patriot? Those who served or those who spoke out against the policy?
Is an American citizen who opposes a particular American governmental policy, thereby a traitor, or an enemy of the United States?

What is the difference between a dissenter (or dissident) and a traitor?

Who were the following individuals and where did they stand on the war in Vietnam?

Ho Chi Minh	General William Westmoreland
General Vo Nguyen Giap	Richard M. Nixon
Senator Joseph McCarthy	Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy	John F. Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem	Robert F. Kennedy
Jane Fonda	Students for a Democratic Society
Senator Wayne Morse	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Senator Ernest Gruening	Malcolm X
Senator J. William Fulbright	Colonel Edward G. Lansdale
David Dellinger	The Dulles Brothers (John and Allen)