1. What does this image represent?
Entry task
What does this image represent?
Where do Vietnam & Cambodia fit in the image?

3. Follow the directions for labeling the map
Vietnam map
Use pg. 995 in your textbook
Follow the directions for labeling the map
When finished, get it checked off by me and you can get started on the next task
Read Vietnam War reading and answer the corresponding questions.

4. French Indochina
Established Vietnam, Cambodia, (and later Laos).
During WWII, Japan ruled Indochina

5. French Indochina War When: 1946 – 1953
Who: French colonial forces vs. Viet Minh (communist group)
Viet Minh fight for Vietnamese independence
Outcome: Viet Minh wins

6. Geneva Conference When: 1954
Where: Peace conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Outcome:
Divide Vietnam temporarily into a non-Communist South and a Communist North
Re-unification planned following elections in 1956
Elections never took place

7. US Involvement
When: 1955
How: US-backed South Vietnamese President. Refused to participate in the elections
Fearful Ho Chi Minh would win
Justification: Domino Theory
U.S. sent military advisers to Vietnam.

8. Fighting Begins in Vietnam
When:
How: Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebels) begin attacks on the South
North approves an armed struggle against the south

9. Gulf of Tonkin Result: When: August 1964 What happens:
2 US Navy boats are attacked by the North Vietnamese
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Result:
US begins bombing in North Vietnam & involvement escalates
US army struggled against guerrilla armies in unfamiliar jungle conditions

10. Tet Offensive When: January 1968
What happens: North Vietnamese & Vietcong begin surprise attacks on South Vietnam cities
Result:
Turning point in the war-US & South win BUT American public began to doubt war
Begins slow withdrawal of American forces
News coverage shocked the American public and further eroded support for the war effort.
Video: Tet Offensive

11. End of the Vietnam War When: 1973
How: Peace Accords - officially end direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Outcome: 1975 – South falls to North Vietnam & becomes a communist nation

12. Genocide in cambodia

13. Genocide
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. N. (1944) [genos Greek: race, kin; cida, from caedere Latin: to cut, to kill]
Despite the U.N.'s declaration that genocide would no longer be acceptable, regimes have continued to strike down mercilessly on civilian populations to this day.
Though the rhetoric has changed, the results are still the same: hundreds of thousands of people murdered because of their religion, ethnicity or tribe.

14. Cambodia’s Genocide Background:
During the Vietnam War: Cambodia served as a supply route for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.
US bombed and invaded Cambodia to destroy the route.
After US leaves, Cambodian communist guerrillas, (Khmer Rouge) took control of government.
Leader: Pol Pot
Begins a genocide & the US ignores it…why?

15. Killing Fields in Cambodia
Pol Pot: Goal was to create a classless society
No money, no cities, no private property, no religion
Killed anyone in opposition
Forced labor, got rid of banks & money
Effect:
1.5-2 million Cambodians executed
Cambodia remained a communist nation
Vietnamese invaded and overthrew Khmer Rouge (US still supported the KR)
Khmer Rouge leaders tried for genocide
1993 Democratic elections held for first time

17. Cambodia Reading & Questions
Read the article on the Cambodian Genocide and answer the corresponding questions
Due at the end of the class period