causes, course, and outcome of the vietnam war vietnam: 1945-1975
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CAUSES, COURSE, AND OUTCOME OF THE VIETNAM
WAR
Vietnam: 1945-1975
Origins
Short History of Early Vietnam
Vietnamese Heroes
The Trung Sisters
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Origins
Vietnamese Independence
Kublai Khan
Tran Hung Dao
French Rule
French Colonization
19th Century Imperialism
French Methods of Control
Ho Chi Minh
Born: May 19, 1890
Nghe An
Moving to France
Paris Peace Conference, 1919
French Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
Living in exile
Indochinese Communist Party
Impact of WWII on Vietnam
Vietminh
Conditions in Vietnam during WWII
The role of the Vietminh
French Control
Japanese Control
The U.S. Office of Strategic Services
September 2, 1945
French Efforts to Keep Control
French Requests
The 16th Parallel
Chinese Forces
British Forces
French Restoration of Power
Later divided at the 17th parallel
The Indochina War
Peace Talks
Reasons for Independence
Haiphong
November 1946
The Indochina War
Tactics
French Strategy
U.S. Policy
Ho’s Proposals
The Indochina War
Moscow’s Puppet?
American beliefs
Non-Recognition
prejudice and stereotypes
The Indochina War
Stalin’s relationship with Ho Chi Minh
Intelligence reports
French use of the Marshall Plan
Keeping Allies
The Indochina War
Help from China
The Cold War Mentality
NSC 68
The Domino Theory
The Indochina War
BAO DAI
Annan
Dean Acheson
Vo Nguyen Giap
Cao Bang
The Indochina War
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Vietnamese National Army (VNA)
American Financial Efforts
Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG)
The Indochina War
Military Assistance
Dynamic Program
Operation Lorraine
The Indochina War
Eisenhower
Dulles
General Henri Navarre
The Navarre Plan
The Indochina War
Giap
Dien Bien Phu
Long haired army
March 13, 1954
American Perspective
May 7, 1954
Results
Results
Salvaging Southern Vietnam
The Geneva Conference
April – July 1954
Dulles in Geneva
Chinese and Soviet Influence
Results of the Conference
A New Era
Ngo Dinh Diem
October 1955
The Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnamese Army
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong
National Liberation Front
“Two Vietnams”
Flexible Response
“Flexible Response”
Military Advisors
Counter-Insurgency
Search and Destroy Missions
Defoliants
Agent Orange
Flexible Response
Strategic Hamlet Programs
The Green Berets
Social And Political Reforms
Ngo Dinh Diem
Anti-Buddhist Policies
Self Immolations
Death of Diem
Self-Immolation
John F. Kennedy
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Continuing Kennedy’s Policies
August 2-4, 1964
Maddox
Turner Joy
“Open Aggression on the high seas”
Escalating The War
Vietcong Efforts
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Operation Rolling Thunder
100,000 Troops sent in 1965
Napalm
The War at Home
The Great Society
War on Poverty
Credibility Gap
War Protests
The “poor man’s fight”
Effects of Television on the War
1968
The Tet Offensive
January 1968
Psychological Victory
My Lai
William Calley Jr
The 1968 Election
THE TET OFFENSIVE
Enter Richard Nixon
The 1968 Election
Vietnamization
Peace with Honour
Laos and Cambodia
Nixon Doctrine
Richard Nixon
The Draft
The Lottery System
Continued Protests
Richard Nixon
Détente
Key Areas: Taiwan, Vietnam, The United Nations, The Soviet Union.
Reasons for détente with the PRC?
Henry Kissinger’s ‘ping pong’ diplomacy.
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Why did China want détente with the USA?
Rivals
Foreign Policy Issues
US withdrawal
Worries over Japan
On Policy
Reflection on the 3rd World
Richard Nixon
What did China gain from détente with the United States?
UN Membership
Results of UN Membership
Taiwan
Japan
Vietnam
Richard Nixon
Kent State University (May 1970)
The Pentagon Papers(June 1971)
The Credibility Gap
The Paris Peace Talks
May 13, 1972-January 27, 1973
The Paris Peace Accords
Richard Nixon
The Watergate Break-in (first story broke June 18, 1972)
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The 1972 Election
Summer 1973
Nixon Resigns (August 1974)
Gerald Ford
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The Effects of The Vietnam War
The War Powers Act, 1973
The Vietnam Syndrome
The fall of Saigon
Results