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The Vietnam War
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
-wars of national liberation???
-French Indochina - Ho Chi Minh resists french control and wants Vietnam to become comunist
-containment-stop spread of communism
domino theory – one country falls, then another, then in own backyard
-Ngo Dinh Diem cancels elections
-Viet-Cong – comunists living in South Vietnam begin fighting
GULF OF TONKIN
-Diem’s gov’t unpopular
-Diem is assassinated
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
U.S. ship attacked
LBJ asks for action (war)
Congress gives President authority to take any military action necessary
-Operation Rolling Thunderbegins bombing Vietnam
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm-Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm-Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm -Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm -Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm -Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm -Agent Orange
DIFFERENT WAR
-US War Leaders
-Sec. Robert McNamara
-Gen. William Westmoreland
-Viet Cong used guerilla tactics
-hard to differentiate friend from foe
-American search and destroy tactics
-napalm -Agent Orange
COSTS OF WAR
-low morale of soldiers
-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort
-first television war
-credibility gap develops –people stopped believing what the government was telling them about the war.
-protest begin
COSTS OF WAR
-low morale of soldiers
-Great Society spending is reduced to pay for war effort
-first television war
-credibility gap develops –people stopped believing what the government was telling them about the war.
-protest begin
OPPOSITION
-Hawks – Those who insist we stay and fight
-Doves – wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Vietnam
-No end in sight to the war
WAR PROTESTS
-why are we fighting this war???
-working man’s war
-unfair practices
-draft
-deferments- means you were exempted from draft (college student, health reasons)
-Objectors
- dodging
WAR PROTESTS
-why are we fighting this war???
-working man’s war
-unfair practices
-draft
-deferments
-objectors
-dodging