1. THE VIETNAM WAR

2. Background Viet Minh – North Vietnam Led by Ho Chi Minh
U.S. - Support South Vietnam
Vietcong (VC)
Communist group in the South
Supported by Ho Chi Minh

5. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
Alleged attacks on US ships
Does NOT declare war but gives Johnson military power in Vietnam

6. Protests Against the War
Doves vs. Hawks
Demonstrations
Unpopular War
More troops = more casualties
Don’t know why we are there.
1st televised war—horrific images

10. Draft Resistance Ways out stay in college Medical exemptions
National Guard or Coast Guard
Burned draft cards
Fled to Canada, hid, refused to register

13. Kent State University – 5/4/1970
Student war protests
Burned the ROTC building
Ohio National Guard kills 4 students

15. Draft Protests
Protest Video

16. Types of Warfare Guerilla
Use land mines/booby traps/hid in tunnels & bunkers—ambush
Napalm – set fire to jungle
Agent Orange – leaf killing chemical
Both wound civilians
Helicopter War - Huey

23. Vietcong Guerilla
DIFFERENT TYPE OF WAR
TYPES OF WEAPONS

24. Ho Chi Minh Trail Secret weapon N & S paths through Laos and Cambodia
Supplies
troops

25. Troop Morale Sinking fast Turned to: Murder superior officers alcohol
marijuana
other drugs
Murder
superior officers

26. Troop Details Clip

27. My Lai Massacre 500 innocent women and children killed
Lt. Calley court martialed
Put in jail
My Lai

29. Nixon Elected - 1968 Plan - Vietnamization
Summer 1969 – begins troop pull out
3 years – 500,000 down to 25,000

30. War Ends…Finally…Or does it??
Jan – agreement signed (North troops stay in South)
March 1973 – last US troops leave
March 1975 – North Vietnamese attack Saigon
We send aid, NO TROOPS!!
April 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders

31. Totals 58,000 – US killed 303,000 – US wounded
Over 2 million – Vietnamese killed

32. Veterans 15% - post traumatic stress disorder Nightmares Drugs Alcohol
Suicide
Experienced hostility when they got home

34. Pictures
Vietnam Pictures