May 7,2013

[2Asia]

Today we talked a little about semester test items. Then we continued to talk about vietnam.
france not giving Vietnamese freedom cause they are communist.
vietnam was gonna be independent.. then no!
Ho Chi Minh- He was the communist leader, he was an allie then became enemy in the vietnam war. He would always dress poor, wanted to be a people person. even though he had lots of money.
Geneva Conference-1954, vietnam was gonna be split, north and south. NORTH-communist, SOUTH-democratic.
Ngo Dinh Diem- was a catholic. he was french educated. he discriminated against Buddhist. we aided and supported the people who shot and killed him.
Vietnam split north and south
Geneva conference set up elections to unify the country by JUly, 1956
it never happened cause both sides thought they would lose.
Vietcong is short for Vietnam communist.- were based in the south where we were based, they dressed normal, acted normal then they would throw a grenade at you or blow up cause of a bomb.
Escalation-Truman through Johnson
-President Truman began US involvement by sending money to help the french
-President Eisenhower continued US support by sending military advisors to give temporary support to Diems government in the south.
-President Kennedy continued sending advisors as well as special operation forces(green berets)
-President Johnson sent more and more combat forces.
Diem was then killed and assasinated
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- Several US ships were supposedly attacked by north Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The american publics faith was shattered, on January 30, 1968, when the enemy, supposedly on the verge of collapse, mounted the Tet Offensive in which  nearly every major city in South Vietnam was attacked.
-Although we crushed the enemy military, the surprising huge offensive attack fromm an enemy that was supposedly almost defeated convinced many Americans that victory was impossible.
when people  think of vietnam war they think protest.
Anti-War
1. Tet Offensive
2.Pentagon papers
3. Injuring/killing
4. supporting government
Kent St. shooting 11th worse masacare
They sent the science building on fire
the gaurd was called in and shot many students on accident
The Lai massacre. girls and women were raped and killed.
How did people get out of serving?
-Went to Canada or Sweden
-Went to college
-Got married
-Medically
-Joined the national guard or peace corps
-Claimed to he homosexual
-being rich