PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The countries involved were south and north Vietnam. It was a fight over communist and anti communist. It occurred mostly in south Vietnam. Was during the 1960's. It happened because of the Cold War.
Untitled Slide
- 1963- MLK gives "I Have A Dream" speach
THIS IS WHERE THE WAR TOOK PLACE
U.S troops stationed in Vietnam.
HOW MUCH MONEY THE MILITARY SPENT.
HELICOPTER CRASHES DURING THE WAR.
"If I left [the war in Vietnam] and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser, and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe."88
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
Bio of MLK
Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950's until his assassination in 1968.
ASSASSINATION OF RFK- ROBERT WAS SHOT DOWN AFTER MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 5TH 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan , IT HAD A MAJOR EFFECT ON THE HOME FRONT BECAUSE THEY LOST A CRITICAL PERSON IN THE VIETNAM WAR.
Assassination of MLK-
He was shot in 1968 by James Earl Ray. It effected the home front because it caused many riots.