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Warm Up: (review) What do you know about the Cold War?
France was in control of French Indochina (which includes Vietnam), and they treated the Vietnamese badly. During WWII while Germany was kicking France's butt, Japan snuck in and took over Vietnam. Japan finally saw the light(s) and let go of Vietnam. France got excited and thought it would be welcomed back to Vietnam, but they were all like "We're I-N-D-E-P-E-N-T, and we like communism". France was like "uh no, we still own you", so they started throwing hands.
[Who do you think US will support?]
Other countries butt in and were like "hold up! how about we split up Vietnam for a minute and then they can have an election and pick a leader" So they did.
Ngo Dinh Diem
South
Anti-Communism
Ho Chi Minh
North
Communism
My name's Ho (Chi Minh) and France has got to Go!
I'm not going to play if I'm going to lose.
BUT Diem was afraid of losing the election to Minh, so he's like "No Election!" and the United States was like "You Right, because if one country falls to communism the rest will follow."
So the United States supported South Vietnam's fight against the Vietcong ruled by Ho Chi Minh in the North. Thee End
Why did the United States care about what was going on in Vietnam?
South Vietnamese leader Diem (was Catholic) and discriminated against Buddhists (majority of the Vietnamese Pop.)
President Eisenhower
Ngo Dinh Diem
What's going to happen next?
(especially if the US President is a Texan)
From Texas to Vietnam
Raul (Roy) Benavidez - Congressional Medal of Honor
How do you attack an enemy you never see?
End of Day 1
What happens when you spray a toxic chemical where people live?
Any volunteers to go fight in a foreign land, in a jungle against an enemy you'll never see?
Mark, No. 069: “As long as I was an undergraduate, I was deferred, but my low lottery number meant that I would be first to go after graduation. At the time I was 5’11 3/4” and only weighed 135 pounds, and I was told that if I weighed 127 pounds I would be deferred. The summer after graduation, I went on a diet and lost a few pounds before my draft physical. The night before my physical, I weighed 127, but was very concerned I would be inducted, so I went to a health club and sat in a steam room off and on for hours….When I was weighed, I was 115 pounds and they gave me a 1-H classification and told me I had to come back in 6 months.”
What kind of people go to college?
The Living-Room war - What you see versus what you hear.
Media (photos and footage) showed the carnage of war
Generals and the President only mention the death count of the enemy - Light at the End of Tunnel Mindset
Credibility Gap:
What the Govt. says vs. what is actually happening
Version A
Version B
How did these News Reports make you feel about the War?
1 min, look at the CLASS COPY and make assumptions
3 mins, read CLASS COPY
and answer the question.
Who do
we trust?
LBJ
Nixon
Based on the Ho Chi Minh Trail Map why would we go to war with Cambodia and Laos?
Copy down 1 Protest sign
Kent State University
Pentagon Papers
1971 - 60% Americans wanted to withdraw troops from Vietnam
Counterculture: to go against the norms of the broader culture
Hippie Counterculture:
Warm Up: What could be the effects of the Vietnam War?
1973 - the last American combat troops leave Vietnam
1975 - Fall of Saigon