US Involvement
• In December the United States sent 900 military advisors to give temporary supports to Diem's government in the South
• U.S involvement increased over a period of years. Started with the deployment of non-combatant military advisors to the South Vietnamese army
• Then started using special forces in Green Berets
• Sent in troops for Defense
• Sent in troops for offense
• Then we just kept sending more and more troops (50’s)
Sides- US, South Vietnamese
• The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, The NFL, a group of South Vietnamese guerilla fighters, the peoples of Viet Nam
Unpopular War
• Media
• Pentagon Papers- mislead people how the war was going
• Killing innocent people by US forces (Mi Lai Massacre)
• The press gets a lot of credit for making it negative
• Supporting a bad government in South
Tet Offensive
o Happened on a day of celebration
o January 30,1968
o the North launches a massive attack to all the major cities in the South
o planned this months ahead
o Kept saying that the enemy was getting tired but they had enough power to go attack
o The US demolished them but this victory was known as a disappointment
o All about the peoples perspective back home
Gulf of Ton kin Resolution
• US ships were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese Torpedoes
• Didn't think that it was the Vietnamese to attack thought it was Johnston getting the US more involved in war
• Congress gave Johnston the green light to do anything to get us out of war
Operation Rolling Thunder
• Was the code name for the non-stop bombing raids in North Vietnam conducted my the United States armed forces
• Was not successful
• We were never going to invade the north because we thought if we did China and the Soviets would get involved and start WW3
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