Vietnam 1955-1975.

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Vietnam 1955-1975

Background French Indochina Divided along the 17th parallel at the Geneva Conference (1954) Leader Ho Chi Minh- North Vietnam

Issues fighting the war Guerilla Warfare Vietcong and Viet Minh (hard to tell who to fight) Ho Chi Minh trail Use of women and children Geography (weather, jungle) Use of chemicals (Agent Orange, Pink, napalm)

Eisenhower Appoints Diem Sends a few American troops to practice containment

Kennedy Sends “military advisors” to Vietnam Approves coup that kills Diem

Johnson Escalation Draft Bombings of North Vietnam- Operation Rolling Thunder “Grandma’s Nightshirt”/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution My Lai Massacre Tet Offensive/Walter Cronkite

Gulf of Tonkin

Operation Rolling Thunder

My Lai

Tet Offensive

1968 Democratic National Convention

Nixon Nixon Doctrine Secret bombings in Laos and Cambodia Vietnamization War Powers Act Paris Peace Accords

Paris Peace Accords (1972)

Ford Fall of Saigon (1975)

War Protest Doves vs. Hawks Students for a Democratic Society/Free Speech Movement Hippies/Counter Culture Silent Majority

Phrases Hell no, we won’t go 18 today, dead tomorrow Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? Use your brain, not your draft card Make love, not war Draft beer, not boys

Music Bob Dylan John Lennon The Rolling Stones Joan Baez CCR

Other Famous Protestors MLK Jr. Malcolm X Jane Fonda William Fulbright Robert F. Kennedy

Kent State Shooting

Ideas Credibility Gap Death of Great Society due to Vietnam Use of media/effect of war journalists “Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” Rise of the youth culture