Vietnam War 1965 - 73
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- Vietnam War 1965 - 73
- Viet Cong Tactics
- Booby traps
- Tunnel system
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- American tactics
- Agent Orange
- Chemical weapons
- Napalm
- Chemical weapons
- Search and destroy
- Operation rolling thunder
- Agent Orange
- How did the USA get involved in Vietnam?
- From 1954 Vietnam had been divided into 2 separate states: North Vietnam - Communist and South Vietnam - Non-communist
- As part of America's policy of containment the America's helped the South Vietnamese by sending money and arms
- Americas help increased and by 1964 50,000 American troops were sent to vietnam
- Public Opinion in America
- The war was largely unpopular in America
- Thousands of young Americans lost their lives.
- MEDIA WAR - it showed people in America the reality of the Vietnam war.
- TV, radio, newspaper reports and photographs
- TV showed prisoners being tortured, or women and children watching with horror as their houses were set on fire
- Students taunted President L B Johnson with the chant - "Hey, hey, L B J, how many kids did you kill today?"
- Massacre at My Lai
- March 1968
- American soldiers started a search and destroymissionin My Lai area
- Ordered to destroy all houses,dwellings and livestock
- Most had the impression that they had to "kill everyone in the village"
- The company of young American soldierskilled 300 - 400 civilian, mostly wome, children and old men
- 3 weapons were only recovered as no Viet Cong were found in the village. At the time the army treated the operation as a success.
- The company of young American soldierskilled 300 - 400 civilian, mostly wome, children and old men
- Most had the impression that they had to "kill everyone in the village"
- 12 months later the truth about Mai Lai came to light. Photographs were taken and published
- Main features of the war
- American nightmare
- Geurilla warfare
- American bombings
- Viet Cong Tactics
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