2. Today’s Schedule – 3/21/13 Turn in Cold War Focus Questions Discussion: Cuban Missile Crisis Decisions PPT - The Vietnam War HW: – Continue reading Cold War Sections

3. Today’s Schedule – 3/22/13 PPT - The Vietnam War HW: – Continue reading Cold War Sections

5. PHASE 1 A WAR OF COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE FRENCH

6. Indochina – WWII – Truman Ho Chi Minh French Defeat Geneva Accords – Minh vs. Diem US policy of containment Bao Dai Ngo Dinh Diem Ho Chi Minh

7. Buddhist Protests Against Diem

8. JFK & Vietnam Approval of coup – Death of Diem – Ineffective govt.

9. PHASE 2 AMERICAN ESCALATION AND MILITARY INVOLVEMENT

10. Johnson & Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin Incident – Gulf of Tonkin Resolution LBJ’s “blank check” – All necessary measures to prevent further aggression

11. Ho Chi Minh Trail – Vietcong/Guerrilla warfare US underestimates Gen. Westmoreland’s belief in attrition – Hanoi 3 yr bombing – US POWs The guerilla wins if he does not lose, the conventional army loses if it does not win. -- M MM Mao Zedong

12. Tet Offensive – January 31, 1968 – Holiday attack – Saigon

13. America’s First Living Room War – My Lai – Agent Orange

14. America’s Response – Kent State – “Baby killers” – Credibility Gap – “Hey, Hey, LBJ how many kids did you kill today” 48% - 36% popularity – “Hell no we won’t go” – Sec. of Defense McNamara – 1968 Election of Nixon “Silent Majority”

15. Pentagon Papers – US role not containment but to avoid embarrassment Nixon’s Role – Vietnamization – Carpet bombing – Secret attacks in Cambodia Henry Kissinger’s Role – America’s withdrawal

16. PHASE 3 VIETNAM’S CIVIL WAR

17. Conditions: U.S. to remove all troops N. Vietnam could leave troops already in S.V. N. Vietnam would resume war Release of POWs Last American troops left S. Vietnam on 3/29/73 1975: North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia April 30, 1975

18. LESSONS LEARNED

19. 1.Wars must be of short duration. 2.Wars must yield few American casualties. 3.Restrict media access to battlefields. 4.Develop and maintain Congressional and public support. 5.Set clear, winnable goals. 6.Set deadline for troop withdrawals.