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| French lost battle to North Vietnam in 1954 |
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| Split Vietnam at 17th parallel, free elections promised |
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| Communist Chinese leader that influenced North Vietnam |
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| Uncle Ho, nationalist leader of North Vietnam |
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| North Vietnamese forces under Ho Chi Minh in 1941 |
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| Keep communism from spreading |
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| China falling would was the first domino in the spread of communism |
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| Leader of South Vietnam put in place by the French. Replaced by Diem in 1955 |
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Leader put in place by the US from 1955 to 1963.
Buddhist problem |
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10% Catholic owned 90% wealth
90% Buddhist owned 10% wealth
Self-immolation |
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Democratic Republic of Vietnam
N.V. forces |
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| Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
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| S.V. sympathetic to N.V. cause |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| President can use whatever force he deems necessary to protect the nation |
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If President sends troops he must notify congress within 48 hours, and congress can withdraw troops after 3 months.
Never used |
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| Number dead did not show progress in war |
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| Massive bombing campaign of N.V. |
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| Pacification and Strategic Hamlet |
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| Move S.V. from home and villages to safe hamlets. |
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| Limited troops sent to war. Number increases as needed. Small numbers sent in increments. |
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| Very short, called for young and inexperienced soldiers to be sent to war. |
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| Switched from draft boards, based on birthdays as needed. Tended to be younger, less experienced troops. |
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| "Bomb 'em back to the stone ages" |
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| Constant bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong to try to persuade peace |
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| Train S.V. soldiers to fight |
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| Pushes for Detent. China pressures N.V. into signing Paris Peace Treaty |
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| 1950 acts as bias for giving aid to French and Bao Dai |
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| 1955 Military Assistants Advisory Group |
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1959 National Liberation Front
Official joining of Vietminh and Vietcong |
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By generals with the support of the CIA and JFK.
Binds us to success of S.V. gov. |
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Secretery of Defense
Incrementalism |
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1964
2 US ships Maddox and Turner Joy both reported they may have been fired upon
Not actually any fire |
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| Pathway through the jungles. Low tech approaches matched our high tech approaches. |
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Staging ground for the US to try to cut off Ho Chi Minh trail. Four month siege of US base. Mostly televised
205 Americans dead, 10-15,000 Vietemese dead.
Base given up a few months after |
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January 1968
The NLF launches attacks all over Vietnam
Seemed like a win for US, however we found it was not the easy war we thought it was going to be.
Turning point in popular opinion |
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| No way out. Like quicksand. |
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RFK
McCarthy- Doves
Humphrey- Hawk |
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MLK- shot in Memphis, sparks riots
RFK- shot in L.A. |
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Protest at Democratic Convention
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Humphrey leads Democrats
Protestors gather to persuade Democrats to vote for McCarthy or change platform to be more Dovish |
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Won many southern states in election by running on a segregation platform.
First time Democrats lost the South since Lincoln's election |
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Pursues Triangular Diplomancy
NSA and Secretary of State |
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| Troops begin raids into Cambodia and Laos to disrupt Ho Chi Minh Trail |
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| Pol Pot fighting to come to power in Cambodia |
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Vietcong and N.V. forces overrun S.V. and Cambodia
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| 1975 Khmer Rouge takes power |
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1975 US forces scramble to leave the city
Renamed Ho Chi Minh City |
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| Carter pardons Draft Dodgers in |
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1982 by Mya Lin
Paid for by Vets. Showed that the war was still controversial |
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| Ho Chi Minh's military commander. Guerrilla Warefare |
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| Care for people to win their "hearts and minds" and strategic Hamlets |
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Chemical defolliant
Birth defects linked to cancer and other disorders and diseases |
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Put in bombs, Vaseline like, catch on fire as it falls.
Kim Phuc had clothes burned off her body. Had to have dozens of surgeries |
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Workhorses of the war
Hueys and Chinooks |
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Smaller
Powerful enough to mow down trees |
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| 1964 where anti-war protests started. Civil disobedience tactics. Started as protests to college policies that had banned political speech. |
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Students for a Democratic Society
Wanted a Moral critique of American Society
Individual empowerment, call for a new kind of democracy |
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Youth International Party
Wanted Consciousness in a fun way |
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| Violent group splintering from YIPPIE party. Other groups appalled by their tactics |
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| Event sponsored by Weathermen. Wild rampage that shocked city. 300 arrested |
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Conspiracy to incite a riot during the Democratic convention.
Nixon wanted to weaken anti-war movement and isolate activists |
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Approx. 10-12%
Born at Ashbury and Haight
Drugs, peace and love
Challenge boundaries of society |
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| "Tune in, Turn on, and drop out" |
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| Peace, Love, and Music at |
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| Woodstock and similar concert in Altamont, CA |
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1968 public in 1969
Charlie Company attacks May Lai, search and destroy, women and children killed |
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| Kent State and Jackson state |
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| 1970 Protests 4 killed at Kent, 2 at Jackson |
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Liberalism
Sexual Revolution
Drug Use
Environmentalism
Traditional family values change |
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