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Chapter 22 The Vietnam War
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Background French Indochina WWII Japanese –Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh France and the US Domino Theory Dien Bien Phu (1954) –Geneva Accords (17 th parallel)
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Conflict gets Worse Ngo Dinh Diem –National Elections Vietcong (NLF) –Ho Chi Minh Trail Eisenhower Kennedy –Coup 1963 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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War Begins Containment –LBJ election 1964 General William Westmoreland –ARVN 1965 180,000 troops sent 1967 500,000
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Fighting An Elusive Enemy –US on paper –How did we think we would fight? A War of Attrition –“Winning the Hearts and Minds” A Soldiers Morale –The Draft The Credibility Gap
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Back Home Vietnam War will start dividing the nation –Living Room War Civil Rights The Great Society NASA
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Opposition The “New” Left –Students 1965 “March” on Washington What were their reasons? –Beyond the youth Canada/ Draft Card
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1968 Hawks v Doves Tet Offensive –Public Opinion Election 1968 –Humphrey/ RFK –Nixon DNC Chicago –George Wallace
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The Ending War Nixon and Kissinger –Vietnamization –1969/ 25,000 troops are home “Peace with Honor” –Nixon’s demand The Silent Majority –Spiro Agnew
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Trouble at home My Lai Invasion of Cambodia –Protests heat up again in US Pentagon Papers –What does this do to the US government now?
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The Final Pieces 1972 Nixon orders bombing of North Election of 1972 –Nixon uses peace negotiations as a key component (Kissinger) 1973 Agreement is signed –Troops come home 1975 Saigon Falls
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What Now Veterans –The US treatment –PTS The “Dominoes” –Khmer Rouge The Wall –Significance War Powers Act
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