Impact of the war on the people’s of Vietnam and the USA

By India and Megan

Up to 1968

• JFK -> LBJ = Americanisation and Escalation• Gulf of Tonkin = Fighting directly against NVA /

Vietcong• BY 1968 OVER 500,000 US TROOPS IN

VIETNAM

Tet Offensive

• ‘The end of getting in, the beginning of getting out’

• January 31st, 1968• ‘Men in black pyjamas’ defeated the ‘greatest

military power in the world’• Major psychological defeat for the US though

not a major military defeat

The US Home front

• Increase in body bags was not appreciated- they weren’t too happy about it

• The wanted to withdraw from Vietnam• Hawks vs. doves. Doves gaining power• Johnson not going for re-election

Vietnam People

• Wanted US withdrawal• They were fighting for their homes and had the

advantage of being on home terrain• Guerrilla Tactics• Tet Offensive = wiped out almost all NVA /

Vietcong soldiers• Napalm • THEY WON! YAY! WOOP! WOOP! HAPPY CLAPPY

FOR VIETNAM!

My Lai Massacre

• 16th march 1968• Massacre of a village of innocent women and

children• Showed the brutality of the US soldiers• Lt. William Calley

Kent State

• May 1970• 4 students killed by national guard• Many others injured• Sparked hundreds of protests across the US

Anti-war movement

• Dove mentality• Against conscription• Demonstrators treated harshly