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Vietnam Final Exam Review Ideas. Truman Doctrine Joe McCarthy China in VN History France & VN: Imperialism Trung Sisters ( Trung Dao) OSS & HO during WWII Vietnamese Decleration of Independence 1954 French Pull Out Battle Dien Bien Phu Diem Regime replaces French in the South
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Vietnam Final Exam Review Ideas • Truman Doctrine • Joe McCarthy • China in VN History • France & VN: Imperialism • Trung Sisters (Trung Dao) • OSS & HO during WWII • Vietnamese Decleration of Independence • 1954 French Pull Out • Battle Dien Bien Phu • Diem Regime replaces French in the South • Geneva Accord & partition & election of 56 • Bay of Pigs • Diem’s Brother head of a harshly repressive secret police agency – who did he go after? • 1963 Nhu Diem closes Buddhist Temples(QuangDuc & Madam Nhu) • After Diems assasination • Gulf of Tonkin Incedent & Resolution • JFK’s commitmitment to Vietnam • March 1965 Da Nang deployment • William Westmoreland MACV • Nature of Deployment • IaDrang Valley • Problems with gradual/incremental policy of “turning up the heat” • LBJ’s ego and disengagement options in 1965 • Confidence in firepower and technology • After destruction of the Village of Ben Suk in Operation Cedar Falls the US Army (withdrew) • Shooting 50 year old women • Army personelpoliicy • 1967 Draftees replace experienced soldiers • 1968 ½ million men and 3 years what to show • “Just & Honorable Peace” Hubert Humphry Oct. 67 • “Lynchpin” of American Strategy – bombing /interdiction • How much of the material that the NVA need to get down the Ho Chi MihnTraill? (10-20%) • Friendly fire • KheSahn • Tet Offensive – Campaigne of Optomism • Battle of Hue City • “End is coming into View” X-mas 67 Westmoreland • Effect of Tet on NLF • Vietnamization • Paris Negotiations • Nixon’s Visits to Moscow & Peking • Christmas Bombing 1972 • Methods of War Resistance/Protest • Democratic Convention Riots • 1968 Election • “Silent Majority”
Sunni, Shi’a, Kurds • Ottoman rule of Iraq • English Imperialism in Iraq • Invasion of Kuwait • Colin Powell/Powell Doctrine • Norman Schwartzkopf • Republican Guards • Neo-Conservatives • Containment • WMD • 9/11 • Sanctions • Reasons Bush Adm. Gave for Invasion • Reasons American’s criticized the invasion plan for Iraq. • Largest Protest in Human History