The Vietnam War
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- The Vietnam War
- USA
- Feared a global communist takeover
- Loss of China to Communism (Truman)
- Supports any anti-communist regime, even corrupt dictatorships
- Diem in power of S.Vietnam
- Highly unpopular
- Replaces "puppet" Emperor Bai Dai
- Diem in power of S.Vietnam
- Created SEATO
- Alternative legality to Geneva Accords
- Refused to carry out planned national elections to unify Vietnam
- Knew Ho Chi Minh would win
- Had won the hearts and minds of the people
- Fuelled the Viet Cong
- Knew Ho Chi Minh would win
- Presidential support increases during the wars course
- 1) Truman - supports France
- Containment
- 2) Eisenhower - provides economic aid
- Domino theory
- 3) Kennedy - provides military aid
- Increased military presence
- 4) Johnson allows American troops to participate in the war
- US troops retaliate against Vietnamese civillians
- Use of napalm
- Mai Lai massacre 1968
- 347 unarmed civilians were beaten and killed
- Difficulty in distinguishing between friend & foe.
- Needed the support of congress in order to escalate
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution
- Used by Johnson as justification for the escalation of the war
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution
- US troops retaliate against Vietnamese civillians
- 1) Truman - supports France
- Getting out of Vietnam
- Nixon - 'peace with honour'
- Why?
- The Tet Offensive showed that the Vietnam War was not going well
- The Sino-Soviet split shattered the threat of a monolithic communist bloc.
- The political and dramatic impact of being a world peacemaker appealed to Nixon
- Peace settlement with Thieu in power of S.Vietnam 1973
- Paris Peace Accords
- Americans withdraw
- Vietnamisation
- Power given back to the S.Vietnamese
- Why?
- Nixon - 'peace with honour'
- Anti-war protests
- Johnson loses confidence in the war
- Refuses to stand for presidency again
- Development of 'new left' parties
- Kent state & Jackson state
- Student protestors killed
- Kent state & Jackson state
- Johnson loses confidence in the war
- First televised war
- Feared a global communist takeover
- Origins
- French colonisation in 1874 - aimed to convert buddhists to catholics
- Vietnamese people suffered as poor labourers
- Indo-vietnamese party developed
- Rebellion broke out
- Start of Communist movement
- French exploited workers & resources for profit
- Indo-vietnamese party developed
- 1954: French lose the battle at Dienbienphu
- Geneva Accords signed
- French withdraw
- Americans refused to provide air suport
- Vietnam divided along 17th parallel
- N.Vietnam in Communist control
- Proposed unification of Vietnam in 1956
- S.Vietnam in Capitalist control
- Proposed unification of Vietnam in 1956
- N.Vietnam in Communist control
- Japans takeover in WWII weakens european colonial power
- Viet Minh & Viet Cong
- Guerilla attacks
- Viet Cong in jungles
- Used tactics unfamiliar to US
- Hit & run
- Persistent and skilled
- Created the Ho Chi Minh trial to transport goods between the North & South
- Through neighbouring Loas and Cambodia
- Nixon alpproves of a bombing campaign
- Through neighbouring Loas and Cambodia
- The Tet Offensive - 1968
- Attacked S.Vietnam
- Street combat
- US won
- Although the incident lost them the war
- US won
- Westmoreland had just claimed that America was winning
- Undermined American involvement
- Judged the success of the war based on body counts
- Opposition to the war increases
- Communists are seen as being stronger than ever
- Supported by the Soviet Union
- Provided aid and arms
- Vietminh in North, Viet Cong in South
- Separate groups, but their ideologies are the same
- The end of the war
- 1975: North Vietnamese take over Saigon
- Guerilla attacks
- USA
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