1. The Star Spangled Banner The Star Spangled Banner Performed By: Jimi Hendrix

2. Doves vs. Hawks

4. Counterculture (Hippies) A young person who rejects established social customs (such as by dressing in an unusual way or living in a commune) and who opposes violence and war.

5. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) A student activist movement that used protest and political action to speak out against the Vietnam War.

6. The Vietnam War Intensifies

7. Richard Nixon & the Election of 1968 LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election & the assassination of Robert Kennedy left the Democrats divided for the election of 1968 Republican Richard Nixon took advantage of the divided Democrats & won the 1968 election

8. Vietnamization – “Peace with Honor”

9. Vietnamization Nixon & National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger developed a plan called Vietnamization: gradually withdraw U.S. troops & replace them with South Vietnamese soldiers But, Nixon really wanted a “knockout blow” in Vietnam & secretly sent U.S. troops Cambodia & ordered bombings of Laos

10. The “Silent Majority” Nixon appealed to the American people, calling on the "great silent majority“ – belief that more than 50% of Americans supported the war but remained silent.

11. Draft Dodging http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam- war/vietnam-war-protests/videos/dodging-the- draft

12. When Americans found out about Nixon’s attacks on Cambodia & Laos, it set off the largest protest in U.S. history 250,000 people, mostly students on college campuses, protested the war & some protests turned violent 4 students died when the National Guard shot into a crowd of violent protestors at Kent State University in 1970

13. Kent State Shootings

14. Pentagon Papers

15. “Credibility Gap” Public doubting what LBJ and the US govt. stated about the war in Vietnam as being the truth – felt the govt. was trying to cover up what was really happening in Vietnam.

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IdR2Iktffaw The Fall of Saigon HOW DOES THE VIETNAM WAR END?!?!

17. Soldier’s Testimonial “I came out on a stretcher at Travis Air Force Base in California, and I got stuff thrown at me, rotten eggs, tomatoes. All of us coming off that airplane were wounded, and they were throwing stuff at us. I’ve told that to people around here and they just can’t believe it. It happened. They were yelling at us. I can refer back to when the World War II people came home and they were heroes. When we came home we were the enemy, I think. I felt like we were the enemy. That really hurt…..” ~Terry Tople, Machinegunner, 9th Infantry Division.

18. Soldier’s Testimonial “Being home and being in a place where nothing is gonna happen to you, where it’s not dangerous anymore, and you can lie in a bed, that was nice. I remember one thing I did one time – in Vietnam you had to be careful, you just didn’t light a cigarette at night, because the snipers could see you. I went out one night in my folks’ front lawn and lit my cigarette lighter and held it up above me head, you know, because, “I can do this now. There’s nobody out there anymore.” It was just a relief to be able to sleep and to not be afraid.” ~Tom Magedanz, Rifleman, 1st Marine

19. Soldier’s Testimonial “When I came back from Vietnam I landed on the East Coast once and once on the West Coast, and people on either coast, bigger cities, were very, very anti-Vietnam. They protested at the airports and military airports. We left Quonset Point, Rhode Island, which was a military airbase, and they were out there protesting, and I thought that was just ridiculous. When we came back from Vietnam and landed out there – you are just so happy to be home, and you have these long haired pukes out there waving signs about baby killers.” ~Pat Murphy, Navy Sea Bees

20. Repercussions of the Vietnam War 26 th Amendment War Powers Act Support of the Troops (if not the war)

21. War Powers Act Passed in 1973 – Requires the president to notify and get approval from Congress to commit troops overseas for more than 60 days. Limits the war powers of the executive branch.