VIETNAM WAR

HO CHI MINH INVADES NORTH

• The communist side wanted to take over the rest
• North wanted Vietnam to all be communist

FALL OF SAIGON

• Fell to North in April 30th
• Marked end of the War

GULF OF TONKIN RESLOUTION

• Gave congressional approval to expand in the war
• LBJ feared public wouldn't like the expansion
• Northern troops had control over half of the South
• LBJ gets critiqued for not acting faster
• August 7, 1964

MY LAI MASSACRE

• March 16, 1968
• US troops enter My Lai village
• Told to search and destroy
• Turned into the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians
• Didn't reach US until November, and was heavily investigated

NGO DINH ASSASINATED

• November 2, 1963
• US had helped south, and 16,000 men were there
• Troops began to be massacred
• NGO was killed in Ho Chi Minh City
• Was killed after he tried to make a republic of Vietnam

WAR POWER ACT

• March 28, 1973
• Limits president from sending troops
• ^sending without congress approval

OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER

• Attacked North Vietnam
• From March 1965- October 1968
• Strategic bombing campaign
• First sustained US assault on North
• Was a way to lessen the Northern troops

KENT STATE INCCIDENT

• Members of Ohio National Guard fired into crowd
• Killing 4, and wounding 9 kent students
• May 4, 1970
• Sparked nation wide student strikes
• Began to impact the Nation wide Politics

US INVADES CAMBODIA

• April 30, 1970
• US and South Vietnam invade
• Invaded in order to bomb
• And destroy cong. Base camps
• Nixon aired on TV his plans publicly

GENEVA ACCORDS

• Temporarily divided Vietnam into north and south
• Along 17th parallel
• Communists in the the Northern part
• Anti-Communists in Southern part
• Election in 1956 to unify them

JFK AsSASINATION

• November 22, 1963
• He was visiting in Dallas, TX
• Riding through the streets on a motorcar
• Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald

TET OFFENSIVE

• Viet cong. Launched attack
• Used weapon filled coffins
• West got more land
• Called defeat for Viet cong.

JACKSON STATE COLLEGE

• 11 days after kent shooting
• 100 black students rallied about white motorists
• Police arrive and start to shoot at the group
• 2 killed, and 9 wounded

NIXON IS ELECTED

• Elected in 1968
• Made political comeback
• Promised to restore law and order

AMERICAN TROOPS LEAVE VIETNAM

• March 29, 1973
• Last of US troops left Vietnam
• Departure was to Paris Peace Accords
• US, North and South Vietnam signed 2 months earlier
• Released American prisoners of war

¿QUESTIONS?

• US shouldn't have
• To an extent no but, you also don't want another holocaust
• We really didn't, considering the number of troops died
• Maybe we could have gotten other countries to help not just us.