1. Focus on Foreign Policy
The 1960s
Focus on Foreign Policy

2. Cold War World (Bipolar)

4. American Approaches to the Soviet Union following WW II
Truman: Truman Doctrine (Containment) Marshall Plan Eisenhower: New Look (Massive Retaliation) Roll Back Eisenhower Doctrine

5. Berlin Wall symbol of tension

6. “Ich bin ein Berliner.” (1963)
JFK attempts to unite a free world

7. I am the best and the brightest…
Secretary of Defense
I am the best and the brightest…
Flexible, hmm?

8. Robert McNamara’s “Strategic Triad”

9. Fiasco (1961)

10. Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962

11. Naval “Quarantine”

12. Competition in Other Areas
Space Race
Peace Corps
Foreign Aid

13. New Options:
Containment? Domino Theory?

14. The French Indo-China War, 1945-1954
                                                             
Vietnam a French colony since 1880s
Vietnamese fought French for Independence
U.S. Aid
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Accords of 1954 (North and South split)

15. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) Nationalism AND Socialism
"You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.“
Nationalism AND Socialism

16. U.S. Military “Advisors”

17. June 11, 1963

18. November, 1963

19. President LBJ

20. LBJ Tonkin Gulf, 1964 “Grandma’s Nightshirt”
Also Daisy Girl Commercial

21. Election 1964

22. Escalation,

23. Attrition Strategy Firepower + Mobility = Victory

24. Small Unit Combat: “Search & Destroy”
“Search and Destroy”

25. The Air War: Death from Above
Agent Orange and B-57 Bombing Raid on VC Ville

26. Collateral Damage
Nick Ute’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo

27. By the end of the war, 7 million tons of bombs had been dropped on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - more than twice the amount of bombs dropped on Europe and Asia in World War II.

28. TET Offensive, 1968 Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan(Loung) executes VC Suspect;
Pulitzer Prize winning photo by Eddie Adams

29. Anti-War Demonstrations

30. 1968 Democratic National Convention

32. Nixon’s Secret Plan “Phase Withdrawal’ “Vietnamization” Negotiations
Paris Peace Talks
Henry Kissinger
“Madman Theory”
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