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Vietnam Chapter 38 & 39 review

Vietnam Chapter 38 & 39 review. Issues to Think About. Should people who believe the war is wrong be forced to fight? Should people with special skills be exempt? How could a draft be made fair?. Background on Vietnam. 1930- Ho Chi Minh creates the Indochinese Communists Party

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Vietnam Chapter 38 & 39 review

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  1. VietnamChapter 38 & 39 review

  2. Issues to Think About • Should people who believe the war is wrong be forced to fight? • Should people with special skills be exempt? • How could a draft be made fair?

  3. Background on Vietnam • 1930- Ho Chi Minh creates the Indochinese Communists Party • 1940- Ho Chi Minh returns to Vietnam with a goal to gain the countries independence

  4. “If ever the tiger (Vietnam) pauses… the elephant (France) will impale him on his mighty tusks. But the tiger will not pause, and the elephant will die of exhaustion and loss of blood” Ho Chi Mihn; 1945

  5. Domino Theory • Once one country falls to communism in an area others will follow

  6. Geneva Accord • July 1954- meeting between France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China, Laos and Cambodia • Made a peace treaty which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel • Communist – Ho Chi Mihn controlled the North • Anti-communist- Diem controlled the South

  7. Vietnam 1954

  8. Eisenhower & Kennedy • Sent more aid to South Vietnam as France pulled out

  9. President Diem • Catholic President in a Buddhist majority country • Corrupt administration • imprisoned & killed Buddhists • U.S. urged to stop oppression

  10. Protesting Against Diem

  11. Diem’s Assassination • After Diems death South is closer to falling to northern powers

  12. Gulf of Tonkin Incident: USS Maddox 2 American destroyers were “Fired” upon by the North. Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions (August 1964): Congress gave LBJ their support in sending American personnel and supplies… NOT DECLARATION OF WAR A Cold War Heats Up

  13. guerrilla forces in S. Vietnam (the Vietcong) Ho Chi Minh Trail. Vietcong

  14. Turning Point • Operation Rolling Thunder- 1965 • 1968 Tet Offensive- surprise attack by Vietcong • Vietcong lost 30,000 lives • U.S. 3,000 • American citizens turn against the war effort

  15. A T.V. War Kim Phuc

  16. Credibility Gap • Americans began to believe that LBJ wasn’t telling them the truth about the war • in 1968, LBJ chose not to run for president, and Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected on a platform of “Peace with Honor”

  17. Pentagon Papers-1970 • the United States wants to show its credibility • Stated the U.S. would fight in order to preserve freedom all over the globe. • showed that if a nation crossed the United States, it was crazy enough to destroy that nation.

  18. Nixon Ends Vietnam Policy of Vietnamization • w/o support of Congress Nixon orders a secret invasion of Cambodia • Henry Kissinger- “Peace is at hand” October 1972 • March 29, 1973 the last combat troops leave Vietnam

  19. Fall of Saigon • After U.S. backed out cease fire agreement collapses • March 1975- North launches a full scale attack in the South • U.S. sends economic help but no troops • April 30th North Vietnamese reach Saigon

  20. America After Vietnam • Abolishment of draft • War Powers Act- * President must inform Congress within 48 hrs of sending troops into a hostile area w/o declaration of war. * War must be declared in 90 days if troops remain there. • American’s have a distrust of the gov’t. • 25th Amendment- Presidential Succession • 26Th Amendment- lowered voting age to 18

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