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Kennedy! LXTB_S193w&feature=related

Vietnam War

Beginnings: U.S. Involvement in Vietnam U.S. military forces in country during WWII, allied with Viet Minh against Japanese FDR anti-colonial views French colonies Containment French Indochina War ( ) Geneva conference

Ho Chi Minh

Ngo Dinh Diem

North vs. South Viet Minh conducted political assassinations against government officials in South to try and destabilize the government Vietcong

Buddhist Crisis May 1963

Americanizing the War J.F.K.-firm stand against Communism after Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis Increase in advisors- reached 16,000 by late 1963 Green Berets

Election of 1964 V. S. Barry Goldwater L.B.J.

Gulf of Tonkin Confrontation between American ships and N. Vietnamese patrol boats in international waters, used to justify direct American intervention

American presence in Vietnam ,000 troops in Vietnam , , ,000 Operation “Rolling Thunder” Air Force bombing campaign of North Vietnam military and industrial targets

and Two goals: 1.Find and defeat enemy 2.Gain support and cooperation from people, capitalistic republic Family life-children pursue easy $ and western lifestyles Inflation Prostitution Relocation programs-Strategic Hamlet Tet Offensive of 1968

My Lai Massacre March 16 th, unarmed citizens in South Vietnam Many women, children, and elderly people Sexual abuse, torture, mutilation

My Lai

1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago Riots

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam November 1969

Kent State May 4 th 1970

Winter Soldier Investigation