Vietnam war
- Goal in US was to stop communist
- Geneva Conference- 1954
- split Vietnam - The South and the US fought against the North and Vietcong.
- Unlike WW2, it was hard to figure out who the bad guys were. They dressed normally.
- Trueman began sending money to help the French.
- Eisenhower continued US support by sending military advisors to give temporary to Diem’s government.
- Kennedy continued sending advisors as well as special orientation forces.
- Johnson sent more and more combat forces.
- Several US skips were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedoes on the Gulf of Tonkin
- Gulf Of Tonkin- where congress gave Johnson to do whatever he pleased. To wage war
- Johnson thinks that this was not our fight
- Johnson and Westmoreland kept saying that with more troops we will win the war
- January 30, 1968-Enemy was able to mount a Tet Offensive which mad us think that the war wasn’t close to over yet
- We demolished them with loss of life
- Americans thought that the government was lying to them.
- After tet offensive he thought we needed even more troops.
- One issue was that we never were givin the go ahead to invade the north.
Anti-war
- Tet Offensive
- Pentagon papers
- Injuring/killing innocent people
- Supporting a bad government in south
- The power of the press
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