1. Unit 11: Vietnam

2. Discussion What should the United States do?
Option 1: Americanize the war
Option 2: Escalate slowly
Option 3: Negotiate withdrawal
Option 4: Withdraw now

3. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
General William Westmoreland
Defense Secretary Clark Clifford

4. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
24-year-old, twice widowed, Vietcong soldier

5. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
Viet Cong meet the enemy face-to-face, most likely in the Mekong Delta or Plain of Reeds. This rare image shows both sides in combat, ARVN soldiers at the top and Viet Cong in the foreground.

6. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
NVA soldiers dash across open ground near strategic Highway 9 in southern Laos during Operation Lam Son 719, the South's failed attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

7. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
ARVN soldiers defending Saigon

8. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken on the streets of Saigon during the Tet Offensive

9. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
President Richard Nixon

10. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975

11. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975
Henry Kissinger - National Security Advisor to President Nixon
South Vietnam President Thieu

13. America’s Vietnam Ordeal 1965-1975