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Warm Up: (review) What do you know about the Cold War?

Once Upon a Time...

Why would the US care about Vietnam?

Once Upon a Time...

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

Summarize:

Why did the United States care about what was going on in Vietnam?

We support the Bad Guy. Duh.

What would cause someone to do this to themselves?

South Vietnamese leader Diem (was Catholic) and discriminated against Buddhists (majority of the Vietnamese Pop.)

What happens when you support the "Bad Guy"?

President Eisenhower

Ngo Dinh Diem

What do all of these articles have in common?

What's going to happen next?

(especially if the US President is a Texan)

Welcome to the Jungle

Americans on the Ground

  • Operation Rolling Thunder: LBJ responds by bombing North Vietnam
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution: Congress granted LBJ broad military powers in Vietnam
  • Most Americans supported the Policy of Containment (at first)
  • 1967 - almost 500,000 troops were fighting in Vietnam

Welcome to the Jungle

  • Characteristics of the Enemy:
  • Vietcong (Vietnamese communist party)
  • Lack of advanced weapons = Guerrilla Warfare: hit-and-run style
  • Elaborate tunnel systems
  • Refusal to Surrender
  • Recruitment of civilians

Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle (Heroes)

From Texas to Vietnam

Raul (Roy) Benavidez - Congressional Medal of Honor

Welcome to the Jungle

  • Supposed to be war of Attrition: whoever takes the most lives, instead of land, wins

How do you attack an enemy you never see?

  • Napalm: Gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungle
  • Agent Orange: leaf-killing toxic chemical
  • Search-and-destroy missions: uprooting civilians with suspected ties to the Vietcong
  • Killing livestock and burning villages

End of Day 1

Operation Ranch Hand: Agent Orange

What happens when you spray a toxic chemical where people live?

Meanwhile at Home

Any volunteers to go fight in a foreign land, in a jungle against an enemy you'll never see?

Back Home

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?

  • Manipulatable Draft
  • Health Exemptions
  • National or Coast Guard Option
  • Lenient Draft board
  • College
  • Draft Lottery
  • When you would be drafted depended on when your birthday would be drawn in the lottery

Back Home

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

Back Home: Living-Room War

Version A

Version B

How did these News Reports make you feel about the War?

Celebrities have something to say...

1 min, look at the CLASS COPY and make assumptions

3 mins, read CLASS COPY

and answer the question.

Turning Point

Turning Point

  • Tet Offensive
  • 1968 North Vietnam launches massive attack (whaat? they're organized enough to do that?!)
  • US media reports Tet Offensive as a major defeat for the United States
  • Public support goes down
  • Morale among troops goes down
  • US Officials declared the Tet Offensive as a major defeat for the Vietcong
  • Vietcong lost 32,000 soldiers
  • United States lost 3,000 soldiers

Who do

we trust?

New President

  • LBJ loses support and does NOT run for another term
  • Nixon Runs for President
  • Runs a Peace Campaign = promise to get out of Vietnam
  • Does begin Vietnamization= removing US troops
  • Silent Majority: moderate, mainstream Americans who supported the U.S. efforts in Vietnam

LBJ

Nixon

Turning Point

Based on the Ho Chi Minh Trail Map why would we go to war with Cambodia and Laos?

  • My Lai Massacre- US troops massacre 100+ Vietnamese in the village of My Lai
  • How/why could this happen?
  • Illegally expands war into neighboring Cambodia and Laos

Enough is Enough

Enough is Enough

Copy down 1 Protest sign

Enough is Enough

Kent State University

  • massive student protests led to the burning of the ROTC building
  • Mayor called in National Guard
  • fired live ammunition into the crowd - Killing 4 people

Pentagon Papers

  • leaked information that showed there was never any plan to end the war

1971 - 60% Americans wanted to withdraw troops from Vietnam

Hippie Movement

Counterculture: to go against the norms of the broader culture

Hippie Counterculture:

  • rejected mainstream societies
  • wanted/created an alt. society based on peace, love, individual freedom
  • turned to drugs and eastern religions to find enlightenment
  • lived in communes (everyone shared everything)
  • tie-dyed t-shirts, ragged jeans, long-hair, love beads

...Thee End

Thee End

Warm Up: What could be the effects of the Vietnam War?

Thee End

1973 - the last American combat troops leave Vietnam

1975 - Fall of Saigon

  • North Vietnam conquer South Vietnam's Capital
  • Operation Frequent Wind: American Civilians and military personnel, South Vietnamese Allies were evacuated

Thee End: Lasting Effects

  • Returning Soldiers
  • 58,000 killed 303,000 wounded
  • 15% of American Soldiers suffered from post-traumatic stress
  • War Powers Act(1973) limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting congress
  • 26th Amendment: US voting age changed from 21 to 18
  • Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) Ruled that the school had violated the students' first amendment rights and that students have the right to wear armbands to protest the war.
  • Vietnam Syndrome: Americans would pause and use caution before butting into other countries' business
  • Less Trust of the Government
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