Outline of the Vietnam War

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• Terminology of the Vietnam War
• Legality of the Vietnam War
• Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
  • List of Congressional opponents of the Vietnam War
• Protests against the Vietnam War
• U.S. news media and the Vietnam War
• Vietnam War myths
• Weapons of the Vietnam War
  • Landmines in the Vietnam War
• Forward air control during the Vietnam War
• Aftermath of the Vietnam War
  • Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
    • Australians missing in action in the Vietnam War
    • List of Puerto Ricans missing in action in the Vietnam War
  • Vietnam War casualties
    • List of journalists killed and missing in the Vietnam War

Participants in the Vietnam War

North Vietnam and its allies

• North Vietnam
• China in the Vietnam War
• Soviet Union (Vietnam War#Soviet Union)
• North Korea

South Vietnam and its allies

• South Vietnam
• Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War
• Canada and the Vietnam War
• New Zealand in the Vietnam War
• Republic of China in the Vietnam War (Taiwan)
• South Korea in the Vietnam War
  • Republic of Korea Armed Forces statistics in the Vietnam War
• Role of the United States in the Vietnam War
  • Formations of the United States Army during the Vietnam War

Years in the Vietnam War

• 1940–46 in the Vietnam War
• 1947–50 in the Vietnam War
• 1954 in the Vietnam War
• 1955 in the Vietnam War
• 1956 in the Vietnam War
• 1957 in the Vietnam War
• 1958 in the Vietnam War
• 1959 in the Vietnam War
• 1960 in the Vietnam War
• 1961 in the Vietnam War
• 1962 in the Vietnam War
• 1963 in the Vietnam War
• 1964 in the Vietnam War
• 1965 in the Vietnam War
• 1966 in the Vietnam War
• 1967 in the Vietnam War
• 1968 in the Vietnam War
• 1969 in the Vietnam War
• 1970 in the Vietnam War
• 1971 in the Vietnam War
• 1972 in the Vietnam War
• 1973 in the Vietnam War
• 1974 in the Vietnam War
• 1975 in the Vietnam War

Military activity during the Vietnam War

Operations during the Vietnam War

Listed by starting date:

• Operation Chopper — January 12, 1962 - U.S-South Vietnamese victory
• Operation Sunrise — March 22-April 30, 1962 - Unsuccessful, increased support for the Viet Cong
• Operation Quyet Thang 202 — April 27-May 27, 1964 - South Vietnamese victory
• Operation 34A – (1964)
• Operation Starlite — August 18–24, 1965 - Both sides claim victory
• Operation Piranha — September 7–10, 1965 - U.S-South Vietnamese victory
• Operation Hump – November 5–8, 1965 - U.S-Australian-New Zealand victory
• Operation Harvest Moon — December 8–20, 1965 - U.S-South Vietnamese victory
• Operation Marauder — January 1–8, 1966 - U.S-Australian-New Zealand victory
• Operation Crimp – January 8–14, 1966 - U.S-Australian-New Zealand victory
• Operation Van Buren — January 15-February 25, 1966 - U.S-South Korean victory
• Operation Masher — January 24-March 6, 1966 - U.S-South Vietnamese-South Korean victory, reportedly 10,000+ civilian casualties
• Operation Mastiff — February 21–25, 1966 - Inconclusive, failure to engage North Vietnamese forces
• Operation Birmingham – April 1966- Allied victory
• Operation Crazy Horse -May 16, 1966 - U.S-ARVN-South Korean allies claim victory
• Operation Hastings – July 15-August 3, 1966 - U.S-ARVN victory
• Operation Prairie – August 1966 - Inconclusive, PAVN avoid destruction
• Operation Thayer - September 13, 1966 - Allied victory
• Operation Deckhouse Five – January 6, 1967 - U.S. failure
• Operation Cedar Falls – January 8, 1967 - Inconclusive, VC/NVA defends the Iron Triangle
• Operation Junction City – February 21, 1967 - Minor allied Pyrrhic victory, heavy VC/NVA casualties
• Operation Francis Marion – April 6 – October 11, 1967 - Minor allied Pyrrhic victory, heavy VC/NVA casualties
• Operation Baker – April 17, 1967 - U.S. victory
• Operation Union – April 21 – May 16, 1967 - U.S. victory
• Operations Malheur I and Malheur II – 11 May – July 1, 1967 - U.S. operational victory
• Phoenix Program – 1967–1972 - Counterinsurgency program in SVN, 26,369 suspected VC assassinated
• Operation Speedy Express 1968–1969 - VC claims U.S. failure, heavy civilian casualties
• Operation Scotland – See Battle of Khe Sanh
• Operation Pegasus
   – August 8, 1968
• Operation Dewey Canyon – January 22, 1969
• Operation Apache Snow – May 10–20, 1969
• Operation Chicago Peak – April 1970
• Operation Texas Star – April – September, 1970
• Operation Ivory Coast – November 21, 1970
• Operation Jefferson Glenn – 1970–1971
• Operation Lam Son 719 – February 8, 1971
• Ho Chi Minh Campaign
  January 24 – April 30, 1975
• Operation Frequent Wind – April, 1975

Battles of the Vietnam War

• Battle of Ap Bac – January 2, 1963
• Battle of Go Cong – September 3, 1963
• Battle of Kien Long – April 11–15, 1964
• Battle of Long Dinh – February 28, 1964
• Battle of An Lão – December 7–9, 1964
• Battle of Binh Gia – December 28, 1964 – January 1, 1965
• Battle of Sông Bé – May 10–15, 1965
• Battle of Đồng Xoài – June 10, 1965
• Battle of Ia Drang – November 14–18, 1965
• Battle of Bong Son
   – January 28, – February 12, 1966
• Battle of A Shau
   – March 9–10, 1966
• Battle of Xa Cam My – April 11–12, 1966
• Battle of Minh Thanh Road – July 9, 1966
• Battle of Đức Cơ – August 9, 1966
• Battle of Long Tan – August 18, 1966
• Viet Cong attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base (1966) – December 4, 1966
• Battle of LZ Bird – December 27, 1966
• Battle of Tra Binh Dong
   – February 14–15, 1967
• Battle of Ap My An
   – February 17, 1967
• Battle of Con Thien – February 27, 1967 – February 28, 1969
• Battle of Hills 881 and 861
   – April 24 – May 9, 1967
• Battle of Ong Thanh – October 17, 1967
• First Battle of Loc Ninh – October 29 – November, 1967
• Battle of Dak To – November 3–22, 1967
• Battle of Tam Quan – December 6–20, 1967
• Battle of Khe Sanh – January 21 – April 8, 1968
• Tet Offensive – January 30 – February 25, 1968
• Battle of Biên Hòa (1968)
   – January 24 – March 1, 1968
• First Battle of Saigon
   – January 31, – February 3, 1968
• Battle of Huế – January 31, – February 25, 1968
• Battle of Kham Duc – May 10–12, 1968
• Battle of Coral–Balmoral – May 12 – June 6, 1968
• Tet 1969 – February 1969
• Battle of Hamburger Hill – May 10–20, 1969
• Battle of Binh Ba – June 6–8, 1969
• Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord – March 12 – July 23, 1970
• Cambodian Campaign
   – April 29 – July 22, 1970
• Battle of Snuol – January 5 – May 30, 1971
• Battle of Long Khánh – June 6–7, 1971
• Easter Offensive – March 30 – October 22, 1972
• First Battle of Quảng Trị – March 30 – May 1, 1972
• Battle of Loc Ninh – April 4–7, 1972
• Battle of An Lộc – April 20 – July 20, 1972
• Second Battle of Quảng Trị – June 28 – September 16, 1972
• Battle of Trung Nghia  – June 8  – September 16, 1974
• Battle of Ap Da Bien – October 3, 1973
• Battle of Quang Duc – October 30, – December 10, 1973
• Battle of Tri Phap – February 12 – May 4, 1974
• Battle of Svay Rieng  – March 27  – May 2, 1974
• Battle of the Iron Triangle - May 16 – November 11, 1974
• Battle of Phú Lộc  – August 28  – December 10, 1974
• Battle of Phước Long – December 13, 1974 – January 6, 1975
• Battle of Ban Me Thuot – March 10–12, 1975
• Battle of Xuân Lộc – April 9–20, 1975

Air campaigns of the Vietnam War

• Operation Farm Gate
• Operation Chopper (1962)
• Operation Ranch Hand (1962–1971)
• Operation Pierce Arrow (1964)
• Operation Barrel Roll (1964–1972)
• Operation Pony Express (1965–1970)
• Operation Flaming Dart (1965)
• Operation Rolling Thunder (1965–1968)
• Operation Steel Tiger (1965–1968)
• Operation Arc Light (1965–1973)
• Operation Tiger Hound (1965–1968)
• Operation Shed Light (1966–1972)
• Operation Carolina Moon
  (1966)
• Operation Wahiawa (1966)
• Operation Bolo (1967)
• Operation Popeye (1967–1972)
• Operation Niagara (1968)
• Operation Igloo White (1968–1973)
• Operation Giant Lance (1969)
• Operation Commando Hunt (1968–1972)
• Operation Menu (1969–1970)
• Operation Patio (1970)
• Operation Freedom Deal (1970–1973)
• Operation Linebacker (1972)
• Operation Enhance Plus
  (1972)
• Operation Linebacker II (1972)
• Operation Homecoming (1973)
• Operation Babylift (1975)
• Operation Eagle Pull (1975)
• Operation Frequent Wind (1975)

Naval campaigns of the Vietnam War

• Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
• Vũng Rô Bay incident (1965)
• Battle of the Paracel Islands (1974)
• East Sea Campaign (1975)
• Mayaguez incident (1975)

Military medals

South Vietnam

• National Order of Vietnam
• Vietnam Military Merit Medal
• Vietnam Distinguished Service Order
• Vietnam Meritorious Service Medal
• Vietnam Special Service Medal
• Vietnam Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Navy Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal
• Vietnam Civil Actions Medal
• Vietnam Staff Service Medal
• Vietnam Technical Service Medal
• Vietnam Wound Medal
• Vietnam Campaign Medal
• Presidential Unit Citation (Vietnam)
• Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
• Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation

North Vietnam

• Golden Star Medal
• Ho Chi Minh Order
• Defeat American Aggression Badge
• Vietnam Liberation Order
• Resolution for Victory Order

United States

• Medal of Honor
• Distinguished Service Cross rare
• Navy Cross
  uncommon
• Air Force Cross uncommon
• Silver Star uncommon
• Distinguished Flying Cross uncommon
• Air Medal frequent
• Purple Heart frequent
• Bronze Star frequent
• Presidential Unit Citation
  rare
• Vietnam Service Medal very common
• National Defense Service Medal very common
• Commendation Medal common

Prominent figures of the Vietnam War

South Vietnamese

• Dương Văn Minh
• Trần Văn Hương
• Ngô Đình Diệm
• Ngô Đình Nhu
• Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
• Nguyễn Khánh
• Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
• Ngô Quang Trưởng
• Lê Minh Đảo

American

• Creighton W. Abrams
• Spiro Agnew
• Clark Clifford
• Alexander Haig
• Hubert Humphrey
• Lyndon Johnson
• Henry Kissinger
• Melvin Laird
• Robert McNamara
• Richard Nixon
• Dean Rusk
• John Paul Vann
• William Westmoreland

South Korean

• Park Chung Hee^[2]
• Chae Myung-shin^[2]

North Vietnamese

• Ho Chi Minh
• Lê Duẩn
• Trần Văn Trà
• Lê Đức Thọ
• Phạm Văn Đồng
• Võ Nguyên Giáp
• Lê Trọng Tấn

Cambodian

• Lon Nol
• Pol Pot
• Norodom Sihanouk
• Sirik Matak
• Sosthene Fernandez

Soviet Union

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Alexei Kosygin
• Andrei Gromyko
• Rodion Malinovsky
• Andrei Grechko
• Nikolai Sutyagin
• Anastas Mikoyan
• Nikolai Podgorny

China

• Mao Zedong
• Zhou Enlai
• Chen Yi
• Ji Pengfei
• Liu Shaoqi
• Lin Biao

Media relating to the Vietnam War

Non-fiction

• David H. Hackworth
  . 1989 About Face
• A.J. Langguth. 2000. Our Vietnam: the War 1954–1975.
• Mann, Robert. 2002. Grand Delusion, A: America's Descent Into Vietnam.
• Windrow, Martin. 2005. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam.
• Bernard Fall. 1967. Hell in a Very Small Place: the Siege of Dien Bien Phu
  .
• Harvey Pekar. 2003. American Splendor: Unsung Hero
• Prados, John. 2000. The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War.
• Prados, John. 1999. Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh.
• Shultz, Robert H. Jr. 2000. The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam.
• Plaster, John L. 1998. SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam.
• Murphy, Edward F. 1995. Dak To: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands.
• Nolan, Keith W. 1996. The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968.
• Nolan, Keith W. 1996. Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann.
• Nolan, Keith W. 1992. Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ.
• Nolan, Keith W. 2003. Ripcord : Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970.
• Robert S. McNamara
  . 1996. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
• Larry Berman. 2002. No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam.
• Bergerud, Eric M. 1994. Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam.
• Bernard Edelman. 2002. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.
• Darrel D. Whitcomb. 1999. The Rescue of Bat 21.
• Oberdorfer, Don. 1971. Tet: the Story of a Battle and its Historic Aftermath.
• LTG
  We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young
  .
• Duiker, William J
  . 2002. Ho Chi Minh: A Life.
• John Laurence. 2002. The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story.
• Gloria Emerson. 1976. Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War.
• Philip Caputo. 1977. A Rumor of War.
• Al Santoli
  . 1981. Everything We Had: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by 33 American Soldiers Who Fought It.
• Robert C. Mason. 1983. Chickenhawk
  .
• Michael Herr. 1977. Dispatches.
• Joseph T. Ward. 1991. Dear Mom: a Sniper's Vietnam.
• Hemphill, Robert. 1998. Platoon: Bravo Company.
• Noam Chomsky. 1967. The Responsibility of Intellectuals.
• ISBN 0-312-98492-8
  )
• Tim O'Brien. 1973.
  If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home
  .
• Frank W. Snepp III. 1977. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
• Strunk, John. 2015. "We Walked Across Their Graves" Vietnam 1967-The Que Son Valley
• Hayes, Roger. 2000. On Point

Fiction

• Robert Olen Butler. 1992. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
• Nelson Demille. 2002. Up Country
  .
• The Punisher: Born
• Daniel Ford. 1967. Incident at Muc Wa (filmed 1976 as Go Tell the Spartans).
• Graham Greene. 1955. The Quiet American (filmed 1958, 2002).
• Larry Heinemann. 1986. Paco's Story.
• Gustav Hasford. 1979. The Short-Timers (filmed 1987 as Full Metal Jacket).
• Duong Thu Hương. 2005. No Man's Land.
• Phillip Jennings. 2005. Nam-a-Rama.
• Denis Johnson. 2007. Tree of Smoke.
• Karl Marlantes. 2010. Matterhorn.
• William Pelfrey. 1984. The Big V.
• Stephen King. 1999. Hearts in Atlantis. (filmed 2001 as "Hearts in Atlantis")
• Walter Dean Myers. 1995. Fallen Angels
• Bao Ninh. 1995. The Sorrow of War
  .
• Tim O'Brien. 1978. Going After Cacciato.
• Tim O'Brien. 1990. The Things They Carried.
• Edward B. Robinson. 2006. The Godhead[1]
• James H. Webb. 1978. Fields of Fire
  .
• John M. Del Vecchio. 1982. The 13th Valley.
• Wayne Care. 1989. Vietnam Spook Show.

Film

Other

• The musical Miss Saigon
• The straight play Letter from the South^[3]
• The Peking Opera Letter from the South^[4][5][6]
• The lianhuanhua Letter from the South^[7]

See also

• Vietnamese boat people
• Re-education camp (Vietnam)
• Cold War-era proxy war
• Colonial war
• Guerrilla war
• Insurgency
• Police action
• Second of the Indochina Wars

References

Further reading

• Vaughn Davis Bornet. [1984]. "The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Chapters 3, 4, 11, 14.
• Boyle, Brenda and Jeehyun Lim, eds. 2016. Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (Rutgers University Press, 2016). xviii, 204 pp.
• Phillip Davidson. 1988. Vietnam at War: The History 1946–1975
• Daniel Ellsberg. 2002. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking Press.
• ISBN 0-912424-08-7
  .
• Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
  . Boston: Little Brown and Company.
• Felix Greene. 1966. VIETNAM! VIETNAM! IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT. Palo Alto, California: Fulton Publishing Company, LCCN: 66-28359.
• David Halberstam. 1969. The Best and the Brightest. New York. Ballantine Books.
• Patrick J. Hearden. 1991. The Tragedy of Vietnam New York: Harper Collins.
• George C. Herring. 1979. "America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975". Boston: McGraw-Hill.
• ISBN 0-14-026547-3
• ISBN 1-55571-625-3
• Gabriel Kolko. 1994. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience London: Phoenix Press.
• Guenter Lewy. 1978. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press.
• ISBN 0-7493-0016-7
• ISBN 0-618-19312-X
• Robert McNamara. 1995. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. (written with Brian VanDeMark) New York: Vintage Books.
• Robert Mann. 2001. A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. New York: Basic Books.
• ISBN 1-55571-612-1
• ISBN 978-0-521-86911-9
  .
• ISBN 1-898876-67-3
• James S. Olson (editor). 1988. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, Inc.
• ISBN 0-520-23948-2
• Oxford University
  Press.
• Neil Sheehan. 1988. A Bright Shining Lie. New York: Vintage.
• Lewis Sorley. 1999. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam New York: Harcourt.
• ISBN 978-0-89141-563-3
• Shelby Stanton. 1987. Vietnam: Order of Battle
• Shelby Stanton. 1988. The Rise and Fall of an American Army
• Louis A. Wiesner. 1988. Victims and Survivors Displaced Persons and Other War Victims in Viet-Nam. New York: Greenwood Press.