TRUMAN DOCTRINE

-wars of national liberation???

-French Indochina

Ho Chi Minh

-containment

domino theory

-sent advisors??

-Ngo Dinh Diem cancels elections

-Viet-Cong begins fighting

GULF OF TONKIN

-Diem’s gov’t unpopular

-Diem is assassinated

-limited bombing already begun

-Gulf of Tonkin

U.S. ship attacked

LBJ asks for action (war)

-statement was prepared before the attack

-Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing Vietnam

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

DIFFERENT WAR

-US War Leaders

-Sec. Robert McNamara

-Gen. William Westmoreland

-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics

-hard to differentiate friend from foe

-American search and destroy tactics

-napalm

-Agent Orange

COSTS OF WAR

-low morale of soldiers

-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort

-first television war

-credibility gap develops

-protest begin

COSTS OF WAR

-low morale of soldiers

-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort

-first television war

-credibility gap develops

-protest begin

OPPOSITION

-Hawks

-Doves

-No end in sight to the war

WAR PROTESTS

-why are we fighting this war???

-working man’s war

-unfair practices

draft

deferments

objectors

dodging

WAR PROTESTS

-why are we fighting this war???

-working man’s war

-unfair practices

draft

deferments

objectors

dodging