The Spy Who Loved Us_ The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game ( PDFDrive )

294 INDEX
U.S. Agency for International
Development, 149
U.S. State Department, 91, 151, 156
Vann, John Paul, 138, 149–150
Vietcong, 24
Ap Bac, battle of and, 136–139
National Liberation Front and, 20
Pham Xuan An and, 140
Têt Offensive (1968) and, 196, 197,
253
training of, 137
Viet Minh and, 111
Viet Minh, 24, 48, 123
Catholics and, 236
Dien Bien Phu, battle of and, 59
First Indochina War and, 49
French, resistance to of, 18
guerrilla warfare and, 49–50
Pham Xuan An as soldier in, 5–6,
42–43, 278n
total war and, 62
Vietcong and, 111
Vietnam, xiv (map)
American ignorance about, 8
American love of, xviii
ancestor worship and, 13, 15, 21–
22, 235, 260
anti-Americanism in, 224
anti-French sentiment in, 19
August Revolution and, 39–40, 41
boundaries of, 19, 229
Cambodia, war with of, 229, 238
China, war with of, 229, 238, 252
Chinese, hatred of in, 50, 230–231,
252
Chinese influence in domestic
affairs of, 252
Chinese invasion of, 229, 238, 252
Chinese occupation of, 15
chu quoc ngu (modern Vietnamese
writing) and, 17
colonial, 16–23, 18–19, 31, 35, 36,
39, 51, 54, 77, 82, 105, 244
Communism in, 15, 26, 32, 37, 38,
40, 41, 42, 44, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53,
60–61, 68, 77, 81, 86–87, 92, 97,
111, 122, 135, 147, 156, 177,
197, 198–199, 206, 225, 238, 258
culture of, 8, 35, 168
division of, 85
doi moi (renovation policy) in, 12,
229
education in, 17–18, 22–23, 32
elections in, 76, 85, 155
ethnic groups in, 16, 19
French colonial rule and, 16–24, 31,
35, 36, 39, 51, 54, 77, 82, 105,
244
gangsters in, 29, 33, 35–36
Geneva Conference (1954) and, 76,
85
independence of, 16, 26, 38
Japanese control of, 36–38
Japanese invasion of, 31, 36, 37–38,
67–68
labor conditions in, 16, 23, 24, 87,
122, 177, 238
land reforms in, 41
language in, 17
“liberated” zones of, 156
literature in, 17
mandarin rulers in, 20
Mongolian invasion of, 18
name of, 35
nam tien (march to the south) and,
16–17, 24
nationalism in, 18, 206
Nguyen dynasty in, 15, 31, 244
outlawing use of word, 19
patriotism and, 18
political parties in, 37
polygamy in, 22
postwar, 1, 3, 225, 230
religion in, 37
state funerals and, 250, 257, 260–261
strategic hamlet program of, 95,
122–123, 124, 238
system of writing of, 17
Têt holiday (new year) in, 12, 21,
257–258
unified, 17, 19, 38, 85, 155
U.S. covert military operations
against, 3
U.S. presence in, 20
U.S. trade embargo of, 3
war against Cambodia of, 229, 238
war against China of, 229, 238, 252
war against Japan of, 31, 36, 37–38,
67–68