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Chapter 22
The Vietnam War
Background French Indochina WWII Japanese
– Vietminh and Ho Chi Minh France and the US Domino Theory Dien Bien Phu (1954)
– Geneva Accords (17th parallel)
Conflict gets Worse Ngo Dinh Diem
– National Elections Vietcong (NLF)
– Ho Chi Minh Trail Eisenhower Kennedy
– Coup 1963 Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
War Begins Containment
– LBJ election 1964 General William
Westmoreland– ARVN
1965 180,000 troops sent
1967 500,000
Fighting An Elusive Enemy
– US on paper– How did we think we would fight?
A War of Attrition – “Winning the Hearts and Minds”
A Soldiers Morale– The Draft
The Credibility Gap
Back Home Vietnam War will
start dividing the nation– Living Room War
Civil Rights The Great Society NASA
Opposition The “New” Left
– Students 1965 “March” on
Washington What were their
reasons?– Beyond the youth
Canada/ Draft Card
1968 Hawks v Doves Tet Offensive
– Public Opinion Election 1968
– Humphrey/ RFK– Nixon
DNC Chicago– George Wallace
The Ending War Nixon and Kissinger
– Vietnamization– 1969/ 25,000 troops are home
“Peace with Honor”– Nixon’s demand
The Silent Majority– Spiro Agnew
Trouble at home My Lai Invasion of
Cambodia– Protests heat up
again in US Pentagon Papers
– What does this do to the US government now?
The Final Pieces 1972 Nixon orders bombing of North Election of 1972
– Nixon uses peace negotiations as a key component (Kissinger)
1973 Agreement is signed– Troops come home
1975 Saigon Falls
What Now Veterans
– The US treatment– PTS
The “Dominoes” – Khmer Rouge
The Wall– Significance
War Powers Act