1. CHAPTER 22 VIETNAM
MR. ALLEN

2. Roots of the Vietnam War

3. Vietnam: French Rule France controlled Vietnam before WWII
Japanese occupation during the war
France fought to get Vietnam back
America supports French control

6. Ho Chi Minh Leader of Vietnamese Communist Party
Led from exile in China since 1920’s
Snuck back into Vietnam during WWII
Declared independence in 1945
Creates Vietminh: Freedom fighters

7. Ho Chi Minh

8. France fights in Indochina (1945-1954)
Tries to keep their colony
U.S. sends money
Ho Chi Minh flees and fights from the North
U.S. Afraid of Domino Theory
If one country falls, all others around will fall
French defeated at Dien Bien Phu (5/54)

9. Vietnam Split in two North controlled by communists
South run by Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong fights in the South
Communists supported by Ho Chi Minh
Assassinated thousands of gov’t leaders
Kennedy sends 16,000 Americans to Nam
1961

10. Eisenhower and Diem

12. Diem is unpopular South Vietnamese hate him He attacks Buddhism
No land reform
Corrupt
U.S. supprts coup, Diem assassinated
Nov 1, 1963

13. Section 22.2 U.S. Involvement and Escalation

15. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Aug 1964: NVA boat fires on USS Maddox
Not hit
Maddox reports more gunfire
Later said they saw nothing
LBJ orders bombing strikes on N. Vietnam
Asks Congress for military authority

16. Robert McNamara: Sec of Defense

17. Dean Rusk: Sec of State

18. US Escalation 1965: 180,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
Gen. Westmoreland calls for more troops
Says ARVN can’t fight very well
500,000 troops by 1967

19. Jungle Fighting Hit and run guerilla warfare
Hiding in cities, spies everywhere
Tunnels throughout the country
Booby traps all over the jungle

22. American tactics Use of napalm to firebomb the jungles
Agent Orange: Leaf killing toxin
Cancer-causing agent
Search and destroy missions
Destroy villages with suspected NVA spies

26. War becomes unpopular Protest movements sprout up
College youth and left-leaning Americans
Protests became resistance

27. THINK/PAIR/SHARE Who should be exempt form the draft?
Should people who believe the war is wrong be forced to fight?

30. LBJ doesn’t run in ‘68 He is unpopular, war is unpopular
Robert Kennedy runs for president
Going to win Democratic nomination
Assassinated in Los Angeles
Nixon defeats VP Humphrey

32. “Peace with honor” Slow pull out of Vietnam
1968: 500,000 troops
1972: 25,000 troops
USA pulls out of the war, 1973
South falls to the communists, 1975