1. TRUMAN DOCTRINE
-wars of national liberation???
-French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
-containment
domino theory
-sent advisors??
-Ngo Dinh Diem cancels elections
-Viet-Cong begins fighting

2. GULF OF TONKIN -Diem’s gov’t unpopular -Diem is assassinated
-limited bombing already begun
-Gulf of Tonkin
U.S. ship attacked
LBJ asks for action (war)
-statement was prepared before the attack
-Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing Vietnam

3. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

4. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

5. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

6. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

7. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

8. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

9. DIFFERENT WAR -US War Leaders -Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm
-Agent Orange

10. COSTS OF WAR
-low morale of soldiers
-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort
-first television war
-credibility gap develops
-protest begin

11. COSTS OF WAR
-low morale of soldiers
-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort
-first television war
-credibility gap develops
-protest begin

12. OPPOSITION
-Hawks
-Doves
-No end in sight to the war

13. WAR PROTESTS
-why are we fighting this war???
-working man’s war
-unfair practices
draft
deferments
objectors
dodging

14. WAR PROTESTS
-why are we fighting this war???
-working man’s war
-unfair practices
draft
deferments
objectors
dodging