Vietnam
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- Vietnam war 1964-1975
- The US support before 1960
- They feared the Domino theory
- They sent $1.6 billion in aid
- They sent military advisors
- Diem refused to hold elections
- Diem became unpopular
- Guerilla tactics
- Came out of hiding and attacked
- Worked hard to win the support of Vietnamese citizens
- Booby traps
- Ambushes
- Tunnel complexes
- Supported by USSR and China
- Hid in villages and jungles
- Stole US weapons
- US Tactics
- Operation rolling thunder 1965
- Ordered by Johnson
- Extensive bombing
- Aimed to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail
- Had little effect
- Operation hearts and minds
- The US spent money on roads schools and health clinics
- It was successful in towns
- It had little effect in rural areas
- Search and destroy
- Landed helicopters next to VC villages and attacked
- It was difficult because
- It was hard to distinguish VC from citizens
- heat and mosquitos
- made the US unpopular as civilians died
- Chemical Weapons
- Agent Orange
- destroyed forests and crops
- Caused cancer and birth defects
- Napalm
- Burned skin to the bone
- Both US and Vietnamese were effected
- Inhumaine
- Agent Orange
- My Lai massacre 1968
- Ordered by Lieutenant William Calley
- In a few hours 100's of unarmed civilians were killed
- Turned opinions against the war
- Operation rolling thunder 1965
- Demands for peace
- Media coverage
- First colour TV war
- Radio TV and newspapers had an influence on peoples opinions of war
- Martin Luther King opposed the war
- people thought the war was costing too much
- Protests
- Kent State university
- mass protests
- Nationall guard shot killing 4 and injuring 9
- Fulbright hearings
- Chairman of the foreign affairs committee 1971
- gave advise on how to end the war
- burnt conscription cards
- marches and demonstrations
- disruption of war transport
- conscription offices raided
- Kent State university
- Media coverage
- Events
- Tet offensive
- 1968
- The VC attacked 36 cities
- They held the US embassy in Saigon
- They were forced to retreat with heavy losses
- Vietnamisation
- Richard Nixon
- 1969-1971
- Withdrawal of US troops
- Paris peace conference
- 1973
- US prisoners of war to be released
- Elections to be held
- North Vietnamese troops can stay in South Vietnam
- The fall of Saigon
- 1975
- North Vietnamese attacked Saigon and major cities
- US officials left
- South Vietnam retreated
- Tet offensive
- The US support before 1960
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