1. VIETNAM Chapter 23 Monday 4/30/12 RAP- What do you think is the best form of protest?
TURN IN CH.23.1 WORKSHEET
Objective: SWBAT
Describe reasons for going to war with Vietnam by discussing US involvement.
Describe tactics used to fight the Vietcong by reading and analyzing fighting methods.
Describe attitudes at home about the war by watching “1968”.
Describe protest music of the sixties and seventies by listening and analyzing lyrics from different protest groups.

2. Today Turn in Chapter 23.1 questions Review and take notes on Ch.23.1
Video— “1968 with Tom Brokaw”
Take notes
No HW

3. Vietnam: Ch. 23.1 pages 768-775 French in Indochina: Ho Chi Minh
Ruled for more than 60 years-Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Resources: rice, rubber, and tin
Ho Chi Minh
Wanted independence—self determination
Dien Bien Phu
French surrender in May 1954

4. Vietnam Civil War North Vietnam = Ho Chi Minh – communist
Minh- liked by many-called father Ho-
North Vietnam --Vietminh
South Vietnam = Ngo Dinh Diem – nationalist-Vietminh-National Liberation Front (NLF)
Diem= dictator—refused to hold elections which angered many Vietnamese
Late 1960’s—Vietminh united with South Vietnam opposed to Diem to form National Liberation Front (NLF) or Vietcong.
North Vietnam = Vietminh = NLF = Vietcong
South Vietnam and the US

5. U.S. enter the War How did each President impact the war?
Truman-
Sent $20 million in direct military aid to the French
Over next 4 years---$2.6 billion
Eisenhower-
Domino Theory
$1 billion to South Vietnam
4 out of 5 dollars of aid spent on the military.
Diem
Kennedy-
Tripled amount of aid
Increased the number of U.S. military advisers
US money goes to corrupt government officials pockets
Johnson-
Vietnam expands in 1964
August, 1964: Gulf of Tonkin —widens war
Operation Rolling Thunder: Feb
1965—180,000 troops
1966—nearly doubled
1967—nearly 500,000

6. Diem Regime Why is he on fire? Buddhist Monk protest Diem assassinated
JFK assassinated 3 weeks later

7. The War Operation Rolling Thunder
– 3 years of dropping bombs on North Vietnam.
Targeted bases, roads, and railways.
Along with the Ho Chi Minh trail, which was roads and muddy trails from N. Vietnam along Laos and Cambodia border to S. Vietnam.

8. The War Air War- Ground War-
Dropped more bombs on Vietnam than the Allies did during WWII.
Failed because of the 30,000 miles of tunnels.
Ground War-
Search and destroy missions.
Hard to find the enemy.
Agent Orange

9. The War Vietcong- Advantages for the Vietcong US response
Guerrilla warfare- small bands to fight US; ambushes, hit and run raids, and sabotage
Advantages for the Vietcong
Knew the land
Appealed to the peasants
US response
Pacification program
Development projects

10. The Endless War Young men M.A.S.H. Every day a disaster.
“I volunteered, you know. Ever since the American Revolution my family had people in all the different wars, and that was always the thing—when your country needs you, you go. You don’t ask a lot of questions, because the country’s always right. This time it didn’t turn out that way.
----David Ross, in Everything We Had, 1981

11. 1968—with Tom Brokaw Title your notes “1968”
TET Offensive
Democratic Convention
Assassination of MLK, jr.
Assassination of RFK
SDS
Mai Lai
PLEASE THINK ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD HAVE FELT AT THAT TIME.
Tuesday / Wednesday finish the video.