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Kennedy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLXTB_S193w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cri43ttTo
Vietnam War
Beginnings: U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
• U.S. military forces in country during WWII, allied with Viet Minh against Japanese
• FDR anti-colonial views • French colonies • Containment • French Indochina War• (1945-1954) • Geneva conference
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
North vs. South
• Viet Minh conducted political assassinations against government officials in South to try and destabilize the government
• Vietcong
Buddhist Crisis
• May 1963
Americanizing the War
• J.F.K.-firm stand against Communism after Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
• Increase in advisors- reached 16,000 by late 1963
• Green Berets
Election of 1964
V. S.
Barry Goldwater L.B.J.
Gulf of Tonkin
Confrontation between American ships and N. Vietnamese patrol boats in international waters, used to justify direct American intervention
American presence in Vietnam
• 1965-200,000 troops in Vietnam
• 1966-360,000
• 1967-475,000
• 1968-530,000
Operation “Rolling Thunder” 1965-1968 Air Force bombing campaign of North Vietnam military and industrial targets
and
Two goals:1.Find and defeat enemy 2.Gain support and cooperation from people, capitalistic republic
Family life-children pursue easy $ and western lifestylesInflationProstitution Relocation programs-Strategic Hamlet
Tet Offensive of 1968
My Lai Massacre
• March 16th, 1968• 347-504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam• Many women, children, and elderly people • Sexual abuse, torture, mutilation
My Lai
1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago Riots
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam November 1969
Kent State May 4th 1970
Winter Soldier Investigation