1. War Divides America

2. Turning point=Tet Offensive
U.S. wins
North Vietnam shows it’s here to stay
TV turns public opinion against war

5. REVIEW
What was the Tet Offensive?

9. 1968 Presidential Campaign
Democrats turn on Johnson
Eugene McCarthy –peace candidate
Robert F Kennedy
Johnson does not run

11. REVIEW
2. Which President decided to not run for a second term because of the Vietnam War?

12. Assassinations of MLK and RFK
1968 Summer of Violence
Assassinations of MLK and RFK
Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Richard Nixon-”Peace with Honor”

14. REVIEW
3. Which Democratic presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968

15. 1968 Democratic Convention

16. 4. Who was elected president of the United States in 1968?
REVIEW
4. Who was elected president of the United States in 1968?

17. Bomb the North into submission
Vietnamization
Get the troops out
Bomb the North into submission
Make a deal to save South Vietnamese independence

20. REVIEW
5. What was President Nixon’s plan to end American Involvement in the war?

21. When that didn’t work… Looking bad abroad
Secret bombing of the North
Invasion of Cambodia
Mai Lai Massacre- exactly who are the bad guys?

22. 7. What happened at Mai Lai?
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7. What happened at Mai Lai?

23. Four killed at Kent State
Looking Bad at Home
Anti-war movement
Four killed at Kent State
3. The Pentagon Papers -Gov’t knew we couldn’t win?-Daniel Ellsberg

24. 8. What happened at Kent State?
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8. What happened at Kent State?

26. 9. What were the Pentagon Papers?
REVIEW
9. What were the Pentagon Papers?

27. Aftermath
War Powers Act 1973
U.S. withdraws 1973
South Vietnam falls 1975
58, 000 US dead
>2 million Vietnamese dead
Cambodian genocide

28. REVIEW
10. When did the US withdraw from Vietnam?

29. REVIEW
11. When did South Vietnam fall to Communists Forces?