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VIETNAM 1946-75 (the 10,000 Day War) Modified from: Scott Masters Crestwood College

PHASE 1 - A WAR OF COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE FRENCH Vietnam had been a French colony under the name of French Indochina (along with Cambodia and Laos) Vietnam began to fight for its independence from France during WW II ( when France was preoccupied with European conflict) The Vietnamese revolutionary leader was Ho Chi Minh, a Communist He wanted to be the leader of an independent, communist Vietnam; he received support from both the USSR and “Red” China

This colonial war raged from 1946-54, culminating in the French defeat at Dienbienphu Fr. decided it wanted out and called a peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland (attended by France, Vietnam, the US, and the USSR) The decision of the conference was to partition Vietnam into a communist North led by Ho and a “democratic” South Vietnam led by Ngo Dinh Diem The settlement was an outgrowth of basic Cold War tensions between the Americans and Soviets and clearly reflected the US policy of containment with respect to Soviet communist expansionism The US had come to see South Vietnam as a “domino” that they couldn’t afford to lose

PHASE 2 – AMERICAN ESCALATION AND MILITARY INVOLVEMENT This phase originated with “Ike” and JFK but was intensified under Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), who assumed the presidency after JFK’s assassination The U.S. never formally issued a declaration of war, but after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, where 2 American destroyers were apparently fired upon by the North Vietnamese, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions (August 1964) - Congress gave LBJ their support in sending American personnel and materiel

In spite of ongoing escalation throughout the 1960s, the US experienced a lack of success against the Vietnamese guerrilla forces in S. Vietnam (the Vietcong) as the US Army was unprepared for their tactics and mentality The US was also never entirely successful in shutting down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a supply line that ran between North and South Vietnam via difficult jungle terrain, often underground and through neighboring nations like Cambodia

The war definitely turned against the US in 1968, when the NVA’s General Giap began the Tet Offensive, a surprise offensive on a major Vietnamese holiday that saw attacks all over the country, including in Saigon itself Ongoing US casualties and losses saw an increase in antiwar sentiment on the American Home Front, in large part because Vietnam was a TV War where American audiences saw the brutality of war firsthand

This included American atrocities at My Lai (Lieutenant Calley) They also witnessed the usage of weapons like napalm and Agent Orange, which devastated the environment

As the Counterculture gathered momentum (Hippies, Flower Children, etc As the Counterculture gathered momentum (Hippies, Flower Children, etc.), protests became widespread and began to polarize the nation This was intensified after the Kent State Massacre National Guardsmen opened fire on student protestors in Ohio, killing four, and by Senator William Fulbright’s (Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee) admission that the war was a “mess”

Increasingly the American people came to perceive the “Credibility Gap”, i.e. they no longer believed that LBJ was telling them the truth about events in the war In 1968, LBJ chose not to run for president, and Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected on a platform of “Peace with Honor”

Nixon wanted the South Vietnamese to play a greater role in the war, a policy he labeled Vietnamization In spite of that, he continued carpet bombing Hanoi and ordered a secret invasion of Cambodia He relied on the diplomacy of Henry Kissinger to achieve peace and/or an American withdrawal The US does manage to extricate itself by Jan. 27, 1973

PHASE 3 – VIETNAMESE CIVIL WAR, 1973-75 The NVA easily defeated the South by 1975; the South had appealed to Nixon for aid, which had been promised, but by 1975 Nixon was embroiled in the domestic Watergate Crisis, and he was in essence a “lame duck” 1975 – the US abandoned its embassy in Saigon, which was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in the newly unified and communist Vietnam

Legacy Formerly Saigon

The Costs 3,000,000 Vietnamese killed 58,000 Americans killed; 300,000 wounded Under-funding of Great Society programs $150,000,000,000 in U.S. spending U.S. morale, self-confidence, trust of government, decimated

The Impact 26th Amendment: 18-year-olds vote Nixon abolished the draft all-volunteer army War Powers Act, 1973 ٭ President must notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying military force President must withdraw forces unless he gains Congressional approval within 90 days Disregard for Veterans  seen as “baby killers” POW/MIA issue lingered

2,583 American POWs / MIAs still unaccounted for today.

And in the End…. Ho Chi Minh: If we have to fight, we will fight. You will kill ten of our men and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who tires of it.

Lessons for Future American Presidents Wars must be of short duration. Wars must yield few American casualties. Restrict media access to battlefields. Develop and maintain Congressional and public support. Set clear, winnable goals. Set deadline for troop withdrawals.

The Vietnam Memorial established in 1982

Memorial to US Servicemen in Vietnam

Memorial to US Nurses in Vietnam

President Clinton formally recognized Vietnam on July 11, 1995, establishing full diplomatic relations.