1. Protests Begin
Students for a Democratic Society
-teach-ins about the war
-picketing the White House
-backlash against anti-war view

2. Tet Offensive
-American forces were over ½ million
-leaders predicting end of war soon
-Jan major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come
-public opinion turns on LBJ

3. Tet Offensive
-American forces were over ½ million
-leaders predicting end of war soon
-Jan major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come
-public opinion turns on LBJ

4. Tet Offensive
-American forces were over ½ million
-leaders predicting end of war soon
-Jan major attack by Vietcong shows no sign of defeat to come
-public opinion turns on LBJ

5. Year--1968
-LBJ scales back war effort and decides to not seek re-election
-assassinations of King, RFK
-college protests
Colombia
-Democratic Convention, Chicago
rioting occurs

6. Year--1968
-LBJ scales back war effort and decides to not seek re-election
-assassinations of King, RFK
-college protests
Colombia
-Democratic Convention, Chicago
rioting occurs

7. Nixon Wins -Nixon wins election but stays in Vietnam???
-Vietnamization
policy of pulling American ground forces out of Vietnam while training Vietnamese troops to do most of the ground fighting with American air support
-bombing of Laos and Cambodia
attempting to stop Viet Cong supply lines
-Nixon tries to leave without admitting defeat

8. Nixon Wins -Nixon wins election but stays in Vietnam???
-Vietnamization
policy of pulling American ground forces out of Vietnam while training Vietnamese troops to do most of the ground fighting with American air support
-bombing of Laos and Cambodia
attempting to stop Viet Cong supply lines
-Nixon tries to leave without admitting defeat

9. Homefront -My Lai Massacre, 1968 -protest renew over Cambodia
-Kent State
-Jackson State
-Pentagon Papers
-classified documents taken from the Pentagon that document the actions of several Presidents during Vietnam acting without Congressional knowledge
-NY Times v. US, 1971

10. Homefront -My Lai Massacre, 1968 -protest renew over Cambodia
-Kent State
-Jackson State
-Pentagon Papers
-classified documents taken from the Pentagon that document the actions of several Presidents during Vietnam acting without Congressional knowledge
-NY Times v. US, 1971

11. Vietnam Ends -early 1973 US leaves Vietnam -Paris Peace Accords
-Fall of Siagon, 1975
-58,000 killed 365,000 wounded
-veterans treated differently
-Passage of the 26th Amendment
-Vietnam Memorial
-Vietnamese refugees
-War Powers Act
limits the ability of Presidents to wage war

12. Vietnam Ends -early 1973 US leaves Vietnam -Paris Peace Accords
-Fall of Siagon, 1975
-58,000 killed 365,000 wounded
-veterans treated differently
-Passage of the 26th Amendment
-Vietnam Memorial
-Vietnamese refugees
-War Powers Act
limits the ability of Presidents to wage war