The Viet Cong was an epithet to call the communist movement and united front organization in South Vietnam,Laos and Cambodia. Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam,it fought under the direction of North Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and United States governments during the Vietnam War. The organization had both guerrilla and regular army units,as well as a network of cadres who organized and mobilized peasants in the territory the Viet Cong controlled. During the war,communist fighters and some anti-war activists claimed that the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South,while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of North Vietnam. It was later conceded by the modern Vietnamese communist leadership that the movement was actually under the North Vietnamese political and military leadership,aiming to unify Vietnam under a single banner.
William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army general,most notably commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' struggle for independence. A non-profit group,they promote education and patriotism. The organization's membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the Revolutionary period who aided the cause of independence;applicants must have reached 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating gender as female. The DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. Its motto is "God,Home,and Country".
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a sneak attack on January 30,1968,against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN),the United States Armed Forces and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The name is the truncated version of the Lunar New Year festival name in Vietnamese,Tết Nguyên Đán,with the offense chosen during a holiday period as most ARVN personnel were on leave. The purpose of the wide-scale offensive by the Hanoi Politburo was to trigger political instability,in a belief that mass armed assault on urban centers would trigger defections and rebellions.
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in 1974.
United States involvement in the Vietnam War began shortly after the end of World War II in Asia,first in an extremely limited capacity and escalating over a period of 20 years. The U.S. military presence peaked in April 1969,with 543,000 American combat troops stationed in Vietnam. By the conclusion of the United States's involvement in 1973,over 3.1 million Americans had been stationed in Vietnam.
Westmoreland v. CBS was a $120 million libel suit brought in 1982 by former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General William Westmoreland against CBS,Inc. for broadcasting on its program CBS Reports a documentary entitled The Uncounted Enemy:A Vietnam Deception. Westmoreland also sued the documentary's narrator,investigative reporter Mike Wallace;the producer,investigative journalist and best-selling author George Crile,and the former CIA analyst,Sam Adams,who originally broke the story on which the broadcast was based.
Cao Văn Viên was one of only two South Vietnamese four-star army generals in the history of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He rose to the position of Chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff. Considered one of "the most gifted" of South Vietnam's military leaders,he was previously called an "absolute key figure" and one of "the most important Vietnamese military leaders" in the U.S.-led fighting during the Vietnam War. Along with Trần Thiện Khiêm he was one of only two four-star generals in the entire history of South Vietnam.
Helena Rebecca Hellwig Pouch was an American female tennis player and served as the 18th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Wilma L. Vaught is a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general. She was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit,and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field.
The order of battle for the Viet Cong concerned a contested American intelligence issue of the Vietnam War. Arising In the mid-1960s,its focus was the count of enemy combatants. Often called the order of battle controversy,the debate came to divide the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),and challenge military intelligence. The politics and strategy of the war became involved in the debate.
Catharine H. T. Avery was an American author,editor,and educator of the long nineteenth century. Of Revolutionary ancestry and hailing from Michigan,she was founder and regent of the Western Reserve Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR),of Cleveland,Ohio;Vice-president General of its National Society;and editor of the National Society's official organ,the American Monthly. She also served two years as a member of the Cleveland School Board,being the first woman in Ohio chosen to an elective office.
The Declaration of Honolulu,1966 was a communiquéand diplomatic proclamation acceded by foreign diplomats representing the Republic of Vietnam and the United States. The declaration asserted pro-democracy principles for South Vietnam while combating external aggression and insurgency by Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The goals outlined at the conference were a cornerstone to US policy in Vietnam until 1969 when the incoming Nixon administration changed policies towards Vietnam.
The United States foreign policy during the 1963-1969 presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson was dominated by the Vietnam War and the Cold War,a period of sustained geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Johnson took over after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy,while promising to keep Kennedy's policies and his team.
Mary Parke Foster was the 3rd President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and wife of John W. Foster,U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
Lynn Forney Young is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution,serving from 2013 to 2016. As the organization's president general,she oversaw a $4 million restoration of DAR Constitution Hall,led the organization in setting a Guinness World Record for "most letters to military personnel collected in one month" with 100,904 letters to members of the United States Armed Forces,and met with Elizabeth II during an event to launch a project to digitilize the Royal Archives of George III.
Ann Turner Dillon is an American clubwoman who served as the 44th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Sarah Emily Corbin Robert served as the 17th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was a noted authority on parliamentary procedure.
Elizabeth Newkirk Seimes served as the 27th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Anna Morris Holstein was an American organizational leader,civil war nurse,and author. From 1862 until the close of the war,Holstein was engaged in the hospital service,and after the Battle of Gettysburg,she was matron-in-chief of a hospital in which 3,000 seriously wounded men were looked after. She was the founder and first regent of the Centennial and Memorial Association of Valley Forge,and a regent of the Valley Forge Chapter,Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.). It was largely through her influence that George Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge were purchased,restored and made accessible to the people. Her publications included Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac (1867),Swedish Holsteins in America from 1644 to 1892 (1892),and Valley Forge :Winter of 177-78 The Darkest Period of the Revolution.
