1. Vietnam

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

3. 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)

6. Eisenhower Appoints Diem
Sends a few American troops to practice containment

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

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

10. Gulf of Tonkin

12. Operation Rolling Thunder

13. My Lai

14. Tet Offensive

15. 1968 Democratic National Convention

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

18. Paris Peace Accords (1972)

19. Ford
Fall of Saigon (1975)

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

21. 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

22. Music
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
The Rolling Stones
Joan Baez
CCR

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

24. Kent State Shooting

25. 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