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.