who’s who in the vietnam war
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Who’s Who in the Vietnam War. U.S. Presidents. Eisenhower. J.F.K. President 1953-1961 Sent advisors “Tea and Tungsten”. President 1961-1963 Assassinated Increased advisors to 16,000 before his death. Nixon President 1969-1974 Resigned after Watergate - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Who’s Who in the Vietnam War
U.S. PresidentsEISENHOWER J.F.K
President 1953-1961 Sent advisors “Tea and Tungsten”
President 1961-1963 Assassinated Increased advisors to
16,000 before his death
L.B.J•V.P J.F.K•President 1963-1969•Gulf of Tonkin Resolution•Escalated War
Nixon•President 1969-1974•Resigned after Watergate•Vietnamization-return war to S.V. and decrease U.S. troops
Secretary of DefenseROBERT MCNAMARA CLARK CLIFFORD
1961-1968 under JFK & LBJ
Increased troops Believed in Domino
Theory Lost hope in winning the
war Resigned in 1968
1968-1969 under LBJ Did not agree with
increase in troops Ended up losing hope in
war & felt it should be handed over to South Vietnam
•Advises President on
military operations
Secretary of DefenseMELVIN LAIRD JAMES SCHLESINGER
1969-1973 under Nixon Invented term
Vietnamization Wanted an end to the
draft & stopped it 5 mths early
1973-1975 under Nixon & Ford
Did not want to give amnesty for draft dodgers & believed in increasing
Increased defense budget nuclear weapons
Dismissed by Ford
Secretary of StateHENRY KISSINGER
1973-1977 under Nixon & Ford
Helped with Vietnamization
Also supported secret bombing of Cambodia
Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for Paris Peace Accords ending U/S. involvement in Vietnam
•Deals with foreign policy •and affairs overseas•Immigration & foreign Travel
U.S. Military LeadersGEN. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND GEN. CREIGHTON ABRAMS
Commander of U.S. Military operations in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968
Commander of U.S. military operations in Vietnam 1968-1972
U.S. Military LeadersGEN. FREDERICK WEYAND
Led 25th Division 1964-1967
Did not agree with Westmoreland
Helped with Paris Peace Talks
Took over for Abrams from 1972-1973
Supervised last troops out of Vietnam
Leaders of South VietnamNGO DINH DIEM(NO)
NGO DINH NHU(NO DINH NEW)
President South Vietnam 1955-1963
Assassinated 1963 Anti-Buddhist
Diem’s brother and right hand man
Assassinated with Diem Wife Madame Nhu 1st
Lady
Dragon Lady
South VietnamNGUYEN VAN THIEU(NEW EN)
NGO QUANG TRUONG(NO)
Was general in ARVN President South Vietnam
1965-1975 Elected through fraud &
was authoritative in rule Resigned a few days
before the fall of South Vietnam
General ARVN 1972-1975 Fall of Saigon immigrated
to U.S. Lives in Virginia as U.S.
Citizen
North VietnamHO CHI MINH
PHAM VAN DONG(FAM)
Freedom fighter Prime Minister 1945-
1955 President North Vietnam
1955-1969 Died 1969 of heart
failure at 79; body embalmed
Communist
Prime Minister North Vietnam 1955-1987
North VietnamLE DOC THO(LEE DOC TOE)
Politician North Vietnam Negotiated Paris Peace
Accords Refused the Noble Peace
Prize
North Vietnam Military LedaersVO NGUYEN GIAP(VO NEW)
LE TRONG TAN(LEE TRONG TAAN)
General during first Indochina war and Vietnam war
At Dien Bien Phu & Tet Major military leader
Part of Viet Minh against French
Deputy Commander VietCong
Secretary Defense in Vietnam until 1986
CambodiaPOL POT
KHIEU SAMPHAN(Q SAM PAN)
Chinese Revolutionary leader
Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Became leader Cambodia around 1975 until Cambodia-Vietnam War began in 1979
21% people died under his rule
President of Cambodia 1976-1979
Key leader Khmer Rouge Still denies genocide
ChinaMAO ZEDONG
Chinese revolutionary Leader 1949-1976
Had “The Great Leap Forward”
Communist Died 1976 of heart
attack