1. Ohio Learning Standard = #21

3. History of Conflict = current Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia
1850s: France gains control of regions in Southeast Asia (I____-C______)
= current Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia

4. Yên Bái mutiny 
*Several attempts to rebel against French had been made by Nationalists … but all uprisings were crushed!
*1930: Vietnam Nationalist soldiers rose up – similar to Sepoy Mutiny in India = military style attacks in Northern Vietnam

5. Japan takes over WWII
After France defeated by Nazis – Axis Power Japan put in charge
Rebel group Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh went to fighting the Japanese

6. Vietnam Split @ 17th Parallel
North Vietnam: support by Soviet Union (Stalin) & China (Mao) … Communist Govt
South Vietnam: support by USA & NATO
USA supplies Marshall Plan $ to rebuild
Occupied by US, French, and Japanese!

7. 1st Indo-China War (1946-54) Can You Tell?
Ho Chi Minh led North Vietnamese forces invade South Vietnam to expel the French … group came to be called Vietcong
Can You Tell?
South Vietnam
Vietcong
Khmer Rouge
Chinese
Japanese

8. Viet Cong Vietnamese communist group – armed by North Vietnam + China
- Ho Chi Minh (leader of N. Vietnam)
- In North & South (guerilla war)
- Civil War in South vs anti-communists
- Conflict as colonial war vs France
- Conflict as way to re-unify country … without influence from foreign interests

9. After Dien bien Phu (1954) Back to 17th Para splitting North & South
- North = Communist Regime
- South = Non-Communist Regime
Relocation & Reallocation (people/resources) = $93 million of US Economic aid
Installation of Prime Minister in South … until elections can be held

10. Ngo Dinh Diem *Catholic … in Buddhist country
*Conservative … in a desperate region
*Nationalist … but desires Gov Control
- blame Communists for poor Econ growth
*Advocate … but for foreign aid
- especially from the US
… Puppet???

11. Man of The Year (1955)

12. ??? Corruption - sends military police against Buddhists
Fearing loss to Ho Chi Minh
NO opposition political parties
Bro as “Free Election Supervisor”
Political Promotions based on …
- 98% of vote in the South
Fearing loss of Catholic power-base
- sends military police against Buddhists

13. Picture of the Year (1963)

14. Assassinated in Nov 1963 ? American CIA = considering plan to remove
? Coup de tat to overthrow of Gov by …
HCM … Viet Cong … North Vietnam … China
? Purposefully to drive South to political upheaval
and Economic down turn

15. 1960s war spreads … to Laos & Cambodia (Ho Chi Minh Trail)
- Khmer Rouge (supplied by China)
- fighting to gain independence

16. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
1964: US Battleship clashes with North
President Johnson uses incident to authorize increase US troop presence in country/region of Southeast Asia

17. “Escalation”
Deployment to US troops rose quickly
- 16,500 in ,000 in 1965
- 415,000 in 1968
- Policy “Limited Engagement” vs Vietcong
- Continuous bombing of North Vietnam