VIETNAM CONTINUED

• THE TET OFFENSIVE

• 1968 NIXON ELECTION

• 1968 PARIS PEACE TALKS

• 1970 TAKING TO WAR TO OTHER COUNTRIES

• 1972 Christmas Bombing

• 1973 March US Pull out

TET OFFENSIVE

• 1967 STALEMATE• GENERAL GIAP

NVA DECIDES TO ATTACK OVER THE LUNAR HOLIDAY

• TET IS A HOLIDAY OF PRAYER AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP

TET

• JANUARY 30 1968 APPROX. 100,000 COMMUNIST SOLDIERS –VC-NVA ATTACKED 100 CITIES AND U.S BASES IN SOUTH VIETNAM.

• KHE SANH – CAM RANH BAY-DA NANG – HUE AND THE U.S EMBASSY IN SAIGON.

• ALL AREAS ATTACKED WERE RECAPTURED .

• THE PEOPLE DID NOT RISE UP.

TET

• WAS A MILITARY FAILURE FOR THE VC AND NVA

• 33,000 VC KILLED ENDED THERE STRENGTH

• TURNING POINT • AMERICAN PUBLIC

OPINION TURNS

GEN. GIAP

                    

                 HUE CITY

   

                                  

KHE SANH

       

                                      

STREET IN SAIGON

RACE TRACK IN SAIGON - BATTLE

1968 ELECTION AND PARIS

• WALLACE –NIXON-HUMPHREYS

• NIXON VICTORY PROMISE PEACE

• BEGAN TRAINING SV TO TAKE U.S. PLACES ON THE BATTLEFIELD

• MARCH 1969

• NIXON DOCTRINE • TROOP

WITHDRAWL NOV 1969 60,000

• 68 PARIS PEACE TALKS FAIL

• SECRESCT WAR TO BRING NV TO TABLES

NIXON - PEACE

• BOMBING THE NORTH TO PEACE FAILED

• CAMBODIA AND LAOS

• 1972 PEACE PLAN• THIEU STAYS IN

POWER- VC GET A SAY IN PEACE

• NV TROOPS REMAIN IN THE SOUTH

• US LEAVES – POW’S ARE RETURNED

• THIEU REFUSED TO SIGN

PEACE WITH HONOR

• CHRISTMAS BOMBING 72 – 73

• JANUERY 73 PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED

• MARCH 73 US TROOPS LEAVE

• PEACE ENDS 75 SIAGON FALLS

Last day in SaigonLast day Saigon

U.S. Embassy U.S. Embassy

Evacuation of Saigon

Helicopter returning- Saigon

U.S Aircraft Carriers were used to evacuate as many as possible from Saigon as it fell in 1975

USS. MIDWAY

NVA troops in Saigon 1975