1. vietnam

2. French indochina

3. japan

4. Ho chi minh

5. we were fighting Japan too!

6. the French again!

7. The French

8. If one country falls to communism, the rest around it will fall too!

9. The battle that drove the french out of vietnam in 1954

10. Who will rule vietnam: The communists or the non-communists

11. Divided vietnam at the 17 th paralell: north would be communist the south would not! Unifying elections would be held in 1956

12. Ho chi minh

13. The non-Communist leader of the South

14. In 1956 Diem cancelled the unifying elections in the South. The U.S. supports this.

15. Rebels from the South, who supported the Communist North, so they start attacking the South’s gov’t.

16. Diem was a Catholic and he was oppressing the Buddhist majority. In protest some monks lit themselves on fire!

17. Military Advisors to train the South how to fight the VC and to get them ready for an invasion by North Vietnam!

18. The South’s Army

19. The North’s Army

20. Diem was assassinated in a CIA sponsored coup.

22. Jfk assassinated on november 22, 1963

23. North Vietnamese PT boats are said to have fired at U.S. battleships in the Gulf of Tonkin in August of 1964 ?????

24. Tonkin Gulf Resolution Congress gave the President the power to do what was “necessary” to stop further aggression by North Vietnam. This did NOT declare War!!!

25. Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)

26. “We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves” -LBJ

28. U.S. bombing campaign of North Vietnam

29. March of 1965

30. U.S. General in charge during Vietnam

31. All men, 18-26 years old, went in front of their local draft board, which then determined if one was fit for duty

32. Many felt that minorities and people from the lower class were being sent, while the rich were not going.

33. If you are 21

34. Muhammad Ali

35. -In 1967 he refused to be drafted. -He was convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison. -While out on appeal, the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1971.

36. Dr. Benjamin Spock

37. -1968 he was sentenced to 2 years in prison for helping draft dodgers. -His conviction would be overturned on appeal.

38. the draft lottery

39. The Viet cong Knowing Who they were? & How they fought?

40. It was the hidden supply route for the communists from the North to the South

41. V.C. Tunnels

43. Napalm was a weapon dropped from planes that caught everything on fire

44. Agent Orange was a chemical that was dropped by planes to kill the jungle.

45. It would result in health problems for people exposed to it (cancer & birth defects) which the government denied for a long time

46. When U.s. soldiers Would be sent out to Find “v.C.” villages & Destroy them.

47. It was a U.S. Marine base that was surrounded & attacked by the NVA in January 1968

48. The Tet Offensive in Febuary of 1968 the V.C. attacked every major city in South Vietnam

49. Tet is the Asian New Year!!!

50. The U.S. crushes the VC forces, they lose more men in one month than the U.S. does the entire war!

51. Turning Point! The American public starts to turn against our involvement in ‘Nam. They feel that they’ve been lied to by the government!

53. LBJ will Not seek Re-election in 1968

54. Bobby kennedy

55. Richard Nixon That the U.S. would start to slowly remove our troops from Vietnam.

56. My Lai U.S. soldiers involved in a Search & Destroy mission, killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1968. LIFE magazine reports it in 1969.

58. Nixon announces that U.S. troops have crossed into Cambodia in order to stop the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

59. Kent State in Ohio The Ohio National Guard is called in to stop protests at Kent State. When some students threw rocks, some guardsmen opened fire killing 4 students.

60. THE PENTAGON PAPERS Top secret gov’t documents that exposed some of the lies the gov’t had told the American people about the war in Vietnam. They were leaked to the New York Times by a gov’t insider in 1971.

61. SHE TRAVELED TO NORTH VIETNAM IN 1972 AND SPOKE OUT AGAINST AMERICA’S INVOLVMENT IN THE WAR

63. 1973 The North & South agreed to cease-fire. U.S. brought its troops home! North Vietnam returned all U.S. POWs!

64. The Media - T.V. brought the war to the living rooms of Americans. -The images helped shape public opinion about the war. -The first T.V. War

65. America’s longest war U.s. Combat troops were There from 1965-1973

66. Fall of saigon 1975 The north breaks the Cease fire and attacks The south- panic breaks Out as the nva heads Towards saigon. The Evacuation begins!

67. Gerald ford

68. hanoi

69. Ho chi minh city

70. 58,000+

71. The Bui Doi The children of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers who were treated as “outcasts” after the war. Bui Doi means “Dust of Life”

72. Some vets feel that not All the pow s were sent Back!

73. Returning vets -many wounded -no celebrations -unemployment

75. -Some did drugs as a way to escape the war. -Some did drugs because they were already doing them in society before they went to Vietnam.

76. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -flashbacks -nightmares

77. John Kerry -served in ‘nam ’68-’69

78. When kerry returned from ‘nam, he & other vets started to speak out against it! He claimed that u.s. soldiers had committed many “war crimes” in Vietnam!

79. John McCain -was shot down over Hanoi in October of 1967. -was held as a POW for 5 ½ years.

80. The wall 1982