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The Vietnam Conflict

The Vietnam Conflict. Leaders. Ho Chi Minh Leader of North Vietnam Communist Popular, would have been elected Ngo Dinh Diem Leader of South Vietnam Not communist Corrupt, never elected, supported by USA for a while So opposed, some monks began self immolation in protest.

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The Vietnam Conflict

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  1. The Vietnam Conflict

  2. Leaders • Ho Chi Minh • Leader of North Vietnam • Communist • Popular, would have been elected • Ngo Dinh Diem • Leader of South Vietnam • Not communist • Corrupt, never elected, supported by USA for a while • So opposed, some monks began self immolation in protest

  3. Protesting Diem’s Anti Buddhist Policies

  4. Domino Theory • If communism spreads to one country • (ex. Vietnam), it will then spread to others

  5. Gulf of Tonkin • Gulf of Tonkin Incident • American ship Maddox is supposedly attacked. This story was exaggerated/invented to create support for a war • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Gave President Johnson to escalate the conflict in Vietnam

  6. The War • Operation Rolling Thunder: US strategy to operate ongoing bombing of North Vietnam • Napalm: gasoline based fire bomb, killed people and burned the jungle • Agent Orange: defoliant (takes the leaves off trees). Also led to cancer/birth defects for American soldiers and Vietnamese

  7. Napalm

  8. Agent Orange Born without eyes due to A.O. birth defect

  9. Ho Chi Minh Trail • Secret Supply Network of Vietcong (North Vietnamese)

  10. Tunnel System

  11. Tet Offensive • 1968 North Vietnamese Soldiers (Vietcong) secretly invade South Vietnam during a New Year’s truce • Although US forces push them out easily, the attack shocks the US and signals that the war will not be over soon "These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me."

  12. Opposition Grows • Hawks v. Doves • Hawks support the war, Doves oppose it

  13. Opposition Grows Cont. • My Lai Massacre – North Vietnamese Village is wiped out by US Soldiers. American public is upset, angry, confused

  14. Opposition Grows Cont. • Kent State/Jackson State – a total of 6 Americans are killed in protests at the two schools in a span of two weeks

  15. Pentagon Papers • Secret documents showed the government had lied about several aspects of the Vietnam War

  16. War Powers Act • Limits the power of the President in committing troops, maximum of 90 days

  17. The End • Vietnamization: Nixon’s idea for a gradual withdrawlof US troops • Paris Peace Accords: Attempt by US to leave Vietnam with an assurance of a non-communist south. This ultimately fails. Saigon falls in 1975, Vietnam becomes entirely Communist

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