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The Vietnam War
1. What was the background to American involvement?
Domino Theory
China
Korea
1. What was the background to American involvement?
French Indochina
US Aid Dien Bien Phu
(1954) The Geneva
Conference 17th Parallel
Cease Fire Line
1. What was the background to American involvement? US runs South Vietnam as a puppet state
South Vietnamese regime is propped up by US finances and military advisors
No popular support among the South Vietnamese people
No Election – Civil War…
1. What was the background to American involvement?
Laos
Communist uprising -- 1961
Reinforces Domino Theory
1. What was the background to American involvement?
US backed a coup on Nov. 2, 1963
Diem killed in coup
Kennedy killed three weeks later
2. How did the US become involved?
Johnson’s Choices
Pull Back
Accelerate “I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the
president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went.” -- LBJ
2. How did the US become involved?
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
3. How did the war progress from 1965 to 1968?
Operation Rolling Thunder Escalation of American troop levels
US Troop Deployments in Vietnam
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
1961 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
U.S. Troops
4. Who was “the enemy”?
North Vietnamese Army Vietcong
GuerrillaBased in local population
Meant lack of progress and popular support
5. What was the turning point in the Vietnam War?
Tet Offensive
Military Defeat
PR Victory
5. What was the turning point in the Vietnam War? Ends LBJ’s
Presidency
6. What was Nixon’s strategy?
Bombing Campaigns North Vietnam Cambodia
Vietnamization Direct Negotiations
7. How did US involvement in the war end? Truce stalemate since 1968 NVA Easter Offensive of 1972
US Bombing in response Truce in October 1972
South Vietnam did not approveLed to more bombing and assurances to
South Vietnam
7. How did US involvement in the war end?
Treaty of ParisWithdrawal of
US troopsReturn of POWsNVA could stay
in South Vietnam
8. What impacts did the war have?
Over 58,000 Americans killed
Over 300,000 Americans wounded
Approximately $150 billion spent
8. What impacts did the war have?
North Vietnam wins the war in 1975 Over two million Vietnamese killed
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https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no1/html_files/laos_map.jpg
Slide 8 Cover: http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1955/1101550404_400.jpg Slide 9 Photo: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/viet4.jpg Slide 10 Image: http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_warmaking_files/Gulf.jpg Slide 11 Photo: http://www.vietnam-war.0catch.com/vietnam_war_pics/rolling_thunder_p3.jpg Slide 13 Photo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Vietcong1968.jpg/300px-
Vietcong1968.jpg Slide 14 Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/TetMap.jpg/464px-TetMap.jpg Slide 15 Photo: http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/images/2007/07/26/lbj_2.jpg Slide 15 Photo: http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/viet/LBJNoRun2.jpg Slide 16 Photo: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/16/arts/17dall.jpg Slide 18 Photo: http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2666014.jpg?
v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=6E41E83E90A345BD81141871583779D2A55A1E4F32AD3138 Slide 19 Photo: http://www.atpm.com/7.01/washington-dc/images/vietnam-memorial.jpg Slide 20 Photo: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/204/8-10/fall_of_saigon.jpg
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