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Blackboard Vietnam Final Summary
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Final exam Lectures 6-12
How to keep te war !oin! wen opposition was so stron!"
A A brilliant strategy of diversion the myth of POWs/MIAs
#e $% &e'olt and &adicali(ation
#e )ru! #rade
*S +eaponry
A Naalm
! Agent Orange
" "luster bombs
#e ,enta!on ,apers bombsell
)tente wit .ina/ *SS&
A #ring $%&' bombing doesn(t deter big o)er sellout of
N*N/N+,
102 .ristmas Bombin!103 ,eace 4ccords
A -# effort to )ring further onessions from anoi fails
! -# agrees to anoi(s demands of $%0% and 1eneva $%23
unifiation4
indeendene4 sovereignty
" Promise of rearations broken
5 $%&6 War Po)ers At effort to reverse trend to)ards
7Imerial Presideny8
$ Ignored by -# Presidents in 1renada $%964 Panama $%9%4 Ira:
$%%$4 #erbia $%%94Afghanistan ';;'4 Ira: ';;64 Pakistan ';;%4 +ibya
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! What )as dGtente and )hat did President NiFon hoe to aomlish
)ith itH Was he
suessful )hy or )hy notH
" o) )as the seret bombing of "ambodia illegal and more
deserving of
imeahment than the breakDin at the WatergateH as the failure to
imeah NiFon over
those more serious rimes served residents )ho ame after him as a
green light forfuture riminal ativityH o)H
5 7Ehe -# )ith its military might ould have and should have )on
the )ar against asmall easant nation4 but )e )ere stabbed in the
bak by the leftD)ing media4 liberal
olitiians4 a treasonable anti)ar movement finaned by foreign
o)ers4 and draftD
dodging soiled brat ollege hiies8 5o you agree or disagree
)hyH
7Ehere are still lenty of Amerian POWs in *ietnam and not all
MIAs have been
aounted for.8 o) )ould you ans)er this laimH ave all MIAs ever
been aounted
for in any )ar in human historyH Flain ho) the POW/MIA issue
ulled at the heartD
strings of Amerians and allo)ed the -# government to break its
romise of anuary$%&6 to ay rearations to *ietnam for its years
of destrution and death.
, Was the *ietnam War a noble ause4 a stuid but )ellDintentioned
misalulation4 or
an eFamle of imerialismH Flain.
Ftra :uestions for seleted students
$D What )ere the results of the $%23 1eneva Agreement and )hat
)as the -# resonseH
'D Ehe $%09 Eet Offensive )as defeated militarily by the -# but
)as akno)ledged to be
a serious4 even fatal Amerian olitial defeat. Agree or disagree
)hyH What is the
differeneH Flain its effets uon Amerian ubli oinion4 defining
the hrases 7lightat the end of the tunnel8 and 7the redibility
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