Vietnam War
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- Vietnam War
- Why did the USA fail in Vietnam, why did they withdraw?
- Tet Offensive
- 1968, January 31st
- Five marines killed
- Attack on Us Embassy in Saigon by Vietcong.
- Johnson was told by advisers to end the war as US won but Vietcong were using American tactics.
- My Lai Massacre
- Match 16th 1968
- Discovered by the public in 1969.
- No resistance, women and children killed and mutilated.
- Search and Destroy mission trying to kill the Vietcong.
- Lt Calley
- Match 16th 1968
- Operation Frequent Wind = Their retreat.
- "LBJ how many kids have you killed today?"
- 61% of soldiers killed were under 21.
- 75,000 were disabled after the war.
- 2338 MIA.
- COST $$$
- MEDIA
- Monks burning in the streets.
- Kent State University
- SDS = Student Society Democratic. Called "bums" - Johnson.
- First COLOURED war televised.
- ROTC = Trained soldiers refuse to go into the war and so they use conscription.
- Tet Offensive
- Why did the USA get involved in the Vietnam war?
- Containment of communism
- Domino Effect
- Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, China and Burma
- Diem's army: AVRN was failing.
- Diem overthrown in 1963/ killed.
- USS Maddox blown up at Gulf of Tonkin.
- Tactics:
- USA
- Agent Orange = Herbicide
- Napalm bomb
- Hi-tech warfare
- B-52 bomber
- Operation Rolling Thunder = Constant bombing
- B-52 bomber
- Search & Destroy
- Vietcong
- Vietcong tunnels
- THE ONLY TIME THE USA WIN IS AT ONE BATTLE DONE IN THE OPEN.
- USA
- Agent Orange = Herbicide
- Napalm bomb
- Hi-tech warfare
- B-52 bomber
- Operation Rolling Thunder = Constant bombing
- B-52 bomber
- Search & Destroy
- USA
- THE ONLY TIME THE USA WIN IS AT ONE BATTLE DONE IN THE OPEN.
- Ho Chi Minh Trail leading into Laos and Cambodia.
- Ho Chi Minh = leader
- Guerrilla warfare
- Poo sticks
- Bouncing Betty
- Hanging onto the belts
- Vietcong tunnels
- USA
- Why did the USA fail in Vietnam, why did they withdraw?
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