Ah, Make That: Conflict
Early History
•A History of Struggle
•Against the Chinese
•Against the French
•Against the Japanese
•Against the Americans
The Background
•300 B.C. - The Chinese Entered
•111 B.C. - Chinese Conquered VN
•Vietnamese Began Reconquest
•939 A.D. - Began Retaking Land
•Ngo Quyen
•“March to the South”
•All of Peninsula by the 1500s
•1600s - The Europeans Entered
•European Imperialism
•1857 - Napoleon III
•French Influence Began
•1883 - Puppet State
•20th Century
•The World Wars‟ Impact
•Anti-Colonialism
•Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh
Vietnam War:
1945-1975
Background
•Where
•Who
•When
•Why
•How
It All Seemed
So Easy...
Truman and Vietnam
•1946 - Vietminh vs. France
•Vietnam Became Part of Cold War
•1949 - China Fell
•1950 - U.S. Begins Aiding French
•U.S. “Subsidized” the War
•1952 - Eisenhower Became President
The Initial Adversaries
Boa Dai Ho Chi Minh
“Uncle Ho”
Eisenhower and Vietnam
•Popularizes “Domino Theory”
•1954 - Dienbienphu
Dienbienphu
•Where?
•What?
•Why?
•Impact?
Geneva Conference
•14 Nations Represented
•Geneva Accords Signed in „54
•Truce
•Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
•17th Parallel - DMZ
•French Would Withdraw
•In 2 Years, Elections
•No Military Alliances
Ike, Dulles, Ngo Dinh Diem
National Liberation Front
Kennedy and Vietnam
•Flexible Response
•Green Berets
•Counterinsurgency
•Strategic Hamlet Program
•Coup d‟Etat
The Strategic
Hamlet Program
Madame Nhu,
the “Dragon
Lady”
Protest in Vietnam: Before...
…After!
What Role Did the
U.S. Play in Diem‟s
Assassination?
Johnson and Vietnam
•What Next?
•Gulf of Tonkin Incident
•Tonkin Gulf Resolution
William Westmoreland
The Americanization of the War
Selective Service
War Map
•U.S. Locations
•Ho Chi Minh Trail
•Jungle Fighting
•Search & Destroy
F-4 Phantom
Rolling Thunder
Bombing North Vietnam
Air Strike
Operation Ranch Hand
Napalm‟s Effects
The
Tet Offensive
•When?
•Why?
•How?
•Impact?
The Village of My Lai
1968:
Saigon
“Light at the
End of the Tunnel
Survey Says...
LBJ Announces “I Will Not Run”
Paris Peace Talks
What‟s Unusual about the Table?
Johnson Could
Not Have Both
“Guns and Butter”
Draft Card
Burning
Democrats Republicans
•McCarthy •Richard Nixon
•RFK •Spiro Agnew
•H. Humphrey •Game Plan
Results
Nixon and Vietnam
•“Peace with Honor”
•Vietnamization
•Nixon Doctrine
•But...
Kent State
Four Dead in Ohio
Anti-Antiwar Protest
Nearing the End
•Nixon‟s Visits to China and USSR
•The Easter Offensive
•Operation Linebacker
•The Christmas Bombings
Paris Peace Accords
•Ceasefire
•U.S. Withdrawal within 60 Days
•P.O.W. Exchange
•The Return Home
•MIAs
Are They Still
Alive?
1975: Fall of Saigon
The War‟s Impact
Political
Economic
Social
American Casualties
Vietnam War Memorial
Many People
Leave Momentos
at the Wall
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