Vietnam War Memorial

1. Vietnam War Memorial

2. Vietnams economy

3. Fruit Vendors Mekong Delta area

4. Carrot Ladies

5. Vietnam -Eisenhower - Kennedy Years – 1954-1963 The French were the first to conquer Vietnam Domino Theory – • Eisenhower – if one country falls they all fall to communism • Eisenhower first to send U.S. personnel to Vietnam • Kennedy – commits economic advisors/military to SV

6. John F. Kennedy at his inauguration on January 20, 1961. In his address, the young President summoned the nation to "pay the price, bear any burden...to assure the survival and the success of liberty" throughout the world.

7. Buddhists – • Are being repressed – 16 million • Roman Catholics- are in control – 1million • JFK pressures Diem (president of south Vietnam) for reform - Diem killed • Johnson expands US aid to South Vietnam 1964 • NV aids and supplies Viet Cong

9. Vietnam – Johnson Years 1964-1968 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – 1964 USS Maddox appears to be attacked by North Vietnam Johnson uses incident as … excuse to give himself broad War Powers Act – Congress votes yes – LBJ runs the war from the oval office

10. USS Maddox on patrol

11. Escalation of the War • LBJ orders … • Operation Rolling Thunder The bombing of North Vietnam • Escalation begins • NVA and Viet Cong(Communist Guerrillas)join together • Supply route along Cambodia and Laos known as the Ho Chi MinhTrail after NV Nationalist leader

12. B-52 delivering a payload

13. Khe San sand model 77 day siege for what? LBJ

14. What do you see?

15. Vietnam – Johnson Years con’t Military Strategy • US air power in the jungle (napalm, agent orange) • Guerilla war, airmobile tactics, search and destroy, small platoons rather than large divisions – hit and run tactics • Problem … • Never knew who enemy really was

17. Air mobile tactics

18. Hamburger Hill

19. TET Offensive- (Lunar New Year) 1968 • Viet Cong and NVA surprise attack into Saigon causes LBJ to withdraw from election 1968 • US embassy attacked –bloody- loss of life supposed to have been a New Years Truce • People back home losing confidence, protests on College campuses- all heck breaking loose (Draft lottery) • Doves call for withdrawal from Vietnam

23. Year of Tragedy - 1968 Martin Luther King Assassinated in April – Memphis, Tenn. Non-violent resistance - explain Leader of the civil rights movement in mid 50’s to the late 60’s

24. March from Selma Ala. 1965

25. Memphis Hotel balcony a day before his assassination

28. Robert F. Kennedy Robert Kennedy – enters the race • Opposed LBJ policies in Vietnam • (gains momentum in the Primaries • Stands a good shot at winning nomination in Chicago • until he too is … • assassinated just after winning the California primary

29. Moments before RFK is assassinated June 6,1968

30. RFK moments after he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan

31. RFK photo gallery

35. “Some men see things as they are and say why, I see things that never were and say Why not”

36. Election of 1968 – • LBJ – chooses not to run – Democratic Party wide open • Eugene McCarthy – wins NH primary • Hubert H. Humphrey – former VP for Johnson wins the nomination

38. Democratic Convention - Chicago Riots in Chicago – Social Revolution Violence-Kent State – 1970 - protest “… gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down … Four dead in Ohio” – Crosby, Stills Nash and Young Nixon wins Republican Nomination