1 / 7

Vietnam

Vietnam. A Misunderstood War. Where the problems started. Before the 1880’s Vietnam had a sense of autonomy but was controlled by China The French take over Vietnam and most of Indochina (Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Laos etc.) and were hated for it

makaila
Download Presentation

Vietnam

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Vietnam A Misunderstood War

  2. Where the problems started • Before the 1880’s Vietnam had a sense of autonomy but was controlled by China • The French take over Vietnam and most of Indochina (Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Laos etc.) and were hated for it • Under French government their freedoms were restricted, and many were jailed/killed for disrupting French involvement • By 1924 many Vietnamese citizens fled to China and organized under Ho Chi Minh (poor farmer turned Communist)

  3. A new government • By 1940 the French were removed and replaced by the Japanese as the leaders of Vietnam • Ho Chi Minh creates the Vietminh to eliminate foreign influence • When Japan was defeated in July-August of 1945 Ho Chi Minh ,who had been receiving support from the Americans, thought they were to be a free country • France takes over a second time in the 1950’s and gain American support. . . : ( • America sends more than a billion dollars of aid to defeat Ho

  4. Domino Theory • Americans were concerned with the spread of Communism and if one fell all would fall quickly after them in the Pacific • French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and we give Vietnam back to the people. . . . No wait America jumps back in! • Geneva Accords: Major countries decide to divide Vietnam into two countries along the 17th Parallel • Ho Chi Minh is the ruler of the North and Ngo Dinh Diem of the South

  5. America’s choices • Diem was a strong anti-communist but a horrible leader but received support from the USA • People in South Vietnam become angry so join the Vietcong • Ho Chi Minh supplies the Vietcong through the Ho Chi Minh trail (Cambodia) • New President Kennedy feels like Vietnam is a mistake but continues to support Diem

  6. Ngo Dinh Diem • Diem makes a series of bad moves: • Hamlet Program removes people from their homeland • Attack on Budhism • Continued corruption in his government • All of this leads to his death at the hands of an American supported coup (revolution) in 1963 • Weeks later JFK is assassinated

  7. Tonkin Gulf Resolution • August 2, 1964 the American Destroyer Maddox is torpedoed by an enemy target • Two days later we think we are torpedoed again but find out it was a mistake • Tonkin Gulf Resolution in August 7th, 1964 passed by Congress letting our new president Lyndon B Johnson go to war with Vietnam

More Related