Key Figures
Ho Chi Minh- Vietnamese Communist leader
Vo Nguyen Giap- Vietnamese military commander
Bao Dai- emperor of Vietnam from 1926-1945
Ngo Dinh Diem- anticommunist Vietnamese statesman
Nguyen Van Thieu- Military general served in the French-controlled Vietnamese army
Dwight D. Eisenhower- 34th president of the United States and a republican
John F. Kennedy- 35th president of the United States, also the youngest president in the white house
Lyndon B. Johnson- the 36th president of the United States, being sworn into office after the assassination of Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon- 37th president of the United States, a republican senator from california , and Eisenhowers vice president
Robert McNamara- American executive diplomat
William Calley, Jr.- Former lieutenant of the United StatesArmy during the war (1971)
Martin Luther King Jr.- young pastor who rose to promonence in the civil rights movement for civil rights
William Westmoreland- American general who lead military operations in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan-American journalist from New York Times during the war.