Monday: presentations
Tuesday: notes
Vietnam
- Beginnings
- France wanted to keep control of Vietnam
- Vietnam wanted independence (defeated France, still weren't independent)
- Geneva Conference -
- Ho Chi Minh (our enemy)
- Split in two
- elections were set up to unify the country - they were never held b/c neither side wanted to lose
- Escalation
- we slowly got involved
- started with military advisors to the South Vietnamese army
- sent green berets/special forces - more troops for defensive purposes
- 1964 : started sending more troops for offensive combat
- more and more troops
- Gulf of Tonkin
- US ships were attacked by the North Vietnamese
- congress gave President Johnson power to wage war
- Tet Offensive (early 1968)
- Tet was a lunar holiday (day of relaxation)
- American people were being told the war is close to ending - we will win with more troops
- easily won
- our enemy attacked around 20 cities
- Anti-War
- Tet offensive
- Pentagon Papers
- someone leaked information to the papers the the US government was lying about the war
- Injuring/Killing innocent people (My Lai Massacre)
- Supporting a bad government in the South
- The power of the press
- Kent St. University
- happened b/c the war expanded into two more countries
- People tried to get out of serving
- Went to Canada or Sweden
- Went to college (student deferment)
- Got married (marriage deferment)
- Medically unfit for service
- Joined the National Gaurd or peace corps
- Claimed to be homosexual
- Being rich
- Vietnamization and De-escalation
- slowly got out of the war and let the Vietnamese fight on their own
- "Peace with Honor"
- Paris Peace Accords
- fighting stopped
- US would pull out
- North and South would recognize each other's independence
- The End
Wednesday: presentations
Thursday: Sem tests
Friday: Sem tests
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