Fantabulous Friday 5/15 Take your seat Take out your notebook Turn Last weeks Warm-Ups into the basket Open to FN: Origins of Vietnam Precious Time Highlight and add in cornell questions, in a few minutes I will have you share your EQ’s from yesterday and I will call on a few of you. 1

Today’s Agenda Precious Time FN: Vietnamization Homework: Copy FN: Counterculture Work on Comic Strip – it is due next Thursday (no more class time will be given) 2

Vietnamization , , EQ: How did the Vietnam War end, and what were its lasting effects? 3

Vietnamization Nixon promised to reduce U.S. involvement peace talks stalled US wanted communists out of South Vietnam and POWs returned Ho Chi Minh wanted US out of South Vietnam immediately Nixon sent troops into Cambodia to seize Vietcong supplies in 1970 in 1971, 2/3 of Americans wanted troops out of Vietnam even if it went communist as a result 4

My Lai Massacre, 1968 U.S. troops led by Lt. William Calley massacred unarmed villagers Calley convicted in 1971 court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison but released in 1974 added to anti-war movement 5

Pentagon Papers, 1972 The New York Times published a classified history of the war it covered policy under Truman, Eisenhower, and Johnson LBJ wrote the Tonkin Gulf Resolution before the attack Daniel Ellsberg, a Vietnam vet, leaked it Nixon tried to block it The Supreme Court ruled free speech 6

Kent State, 1970 Students protestors threw rocks at the National Guard the guardsmen fired on antiwar protestors 4 killed and 8 wounded college campuses across the nation closed down President Nixon “...when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy” 7

Paris Peace Talks, 1973 Nixon won re- election in 1972 with peace approaching Nixon renewed bombing North Vietnam when talks stalled US troops pulled out in

Saigon Falls, 1975 communist forces restarted hostility Saigon fell and was renamed Ho Chi Minh City US embassy workers were evacuated to ships off the coast the US reopened diplomatic relations with Vietnam in

Vietnamization Cost of the Vietnam War Aug May 7, ,403,100 served in the Southeast Asia Theater (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) 58,202 died 300,000 wounded POWs: 766 MIA: 2, won Medal of Honor represented 9.7% of their generation 10

War Powers Act, 1973 limited presidential authority to make war President must inform Congress within 48 hours of sending in troops President may only commit troops up to 60 days in field congressional authority always higher than president passed over Nixon’s veto 11