Monday- Continue presentations. Notes on bottom.
Tuesday- Continue presentations
Wednesday- Continue presentations
Thursday- Continue presentations, start notes on Nam
Friday- Vietnam presentation
1960's
Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy Brothers
having secret relationships
JFK assassination
MLK assassination
Malcolm X assassination
Montgomery Bus boycott- after Rosa Parks was kicked out of the bus because she wouldn't give up her seat
Selma to Montgomery March
1990's
the OJ Simpson case
President Clinton had an affair with Monica
1970's
Nixon won all but one state in 72
Carter won the 74 election
gay rights movement
Apollo 13 landed on earth
Clean air act- limit polluting
26 amendment 18 years old the right to vote
Iran Hostage crisis- they took 66 Americans
Watergate- business complex people wanted to break into the Watergate head quarters and get information about demarcate to get Nixon re elected, they were caught. Taping the phones. Once he found out about the break in and tried to cover it up, and he resigned.
2000's
Bush and Gore 2000 election Bush won
2004 election Bush won again
2008 - 2012 Obama won
'Nam
The Vietnam Conflict 1950-1975
Goal: Stop communism (domino affect)
The French Connection
- France had control of Indochina until the Japanese took it over
- After the war was over, we believed Ho Chi Minh would give freedom to his people
- Vietnamese defeated French
- Short period of time, Nam was given independence
Geneva Conference 1954
- Vietnam was partitioned temporarily into a Northern and a southern zone of Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- The North was ruled by Ho Chi Minh
- The South ruled by Diem
- Conference set up to unify the country by July 1956
Who fought?
- US Armed Force
- Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) (the SouthVietnamese army)
- The NLF, a group of South Vietnamese guerilla fighters (Vietcong)
- People's Army of Viet Nam (PAVN- the North Vietnamese Army, pronounced Pahvin)
What we need to know about Nam for Semester Test:
Nam
- Beginnings
- Gulfof Tonkin
- Gulf of Tonkin-Body of water
- Several US ships were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin
- August of 1964
- Congress gave Johnson the power to wage war
- Only two people in Congress voted against it
- Escalation
- Under escalation, US involvement increased over a period of years. Started with the deployment of non combat military advisors to the South Vietnamese Army
- Then started using special forces (Green Berets) for commando style operations
- Started sending regular combat troops but only for defensive purposes ONLY
- Use of regular troops for combat
- Once US troops were in active combat, escalation shifted to the adding of more US troops
- Tet Offensive
- Johnson and General William
- Westmoreland (major General in war) kept saying that with more troops we will win the war
- Most Americans believed at first
- 1968, a massive offensive was put on by North Vietnamese on the South
- Planned for months, stockpiling in cities
- Tet holiday was celebrated in Nam
- US crushed them in Tet offensive
- People started protesting
- Increased belief that government was misleading American people about a war
- Pentagon Papers- Under Nixon-
- Someone leaked to New York Times information on the Vietnam war-saying that they weren't telling the full story
Operation Rolling Thunder
- Was the code name for the nonstop bombing raids in North Nam conducted by the US armed forces
- Its purpose was to destroy the will of North Namese to fight, to destroy industrial bases and air defensives
- Anti-war
- Vietnamization De-escalation
- Nixon called for the "Vietnamization" of the war
- "Peace with Honor"
- Gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place in fighting the north
- Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protests (Kent St)
- Paris Peace Accords
- The End
Kennedy and Nam
- Kennedy strongly believed in NOT fighting in Nam
- We were supporting Diem for he was the only anti-communist
My Lai Massacre 1968
- US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians
- Women were raped and bodies mutilated
Getting out of serving
- Went to Canada or Sweden
- Went to college
- Got married
- Medically unfit for service
- Joined National Guard or Peace Corps
- Claimed to be homosexual
- Being rich
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