1. MS. HA CHAPTER 22 PART 1 SECTION 2
U.S. in Vietnam
MS. HA
CHAPTER 22
PART 1
SECTION 2

2. I. France retreats
A. United States involved
1. Economic aid
2. Military aid
3. South Vietnamese

3. B. Ho Chi Minh
1. Brutal / repressive regime
2. People supported him
a) Broke up land holdings
b) Land goes to peasants

4. C. South Vietnam
1. President: Ngo Dinh Diem
2. Anti-Communist &
Catholic
3. No to 1956 election
4. Corrupt government

5. D. Vietcong
1. Attack Diem government
2. Ho Chi Minh supported them
3. Ho Chi Minh Trail
a) Network of border paths
b) Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia

6. E. Kennedy Administration
: sent 16,000 U.S. military
personnel
2. Help advise Diem
3. Popularity of Diem dropped / corrupt
4. Hamlet Program:
a) Strategic program
b) Move villagers to protected areas

7. Ngo
Dinh
Diem

8. F. Diem attacks Buddhists
1. Imprisoned and killed
Buddhists
2. Monks and Nuns Protested
a) Burned themselves to death
b) American officials horrified

9. G. Diem: regime toppled
1. Diem assassinated
2. Kennedy killed weeks later
3. New U.S. President:
a) Lyndon Baines Johnson

10. U.S. Presidents
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson

11. II. President Johnson: expansion
A. Escalation
1. “Reported” torpedoes on
USS Maddox
2. In Gulf of Tonkin
3. Johnson: air raids on N. Vietnam
4. Tonkin Gulf Resolution: not war,
but power

12. B. “Operation Rolling Thunder”
1. First sustained bombing
of N. Vietnam
2. June 1964: 50,000 U.S.
troops
a) Fighting Vietcong