The Vietnam Conflict
-key players
-North Vietnam
-Vietcong
-Ho Chi Minh
-South Vietnam
-United States
-Ho Chi Minh
-went to try and get independence from france in the confrence
-1964 was a turning point
-gulf of tonkin resolution
-a US ship was "attacked"
-we started sending in combat troops
-1966
-more combat troops
-1966-67
-more combat troops
-1968
-Tet Offensive
-Lunar New Year
-the vietcong come out of the jungle and lunch a major offensive
-the US crushed the vietcong
-the My Lai Massacre
-made american citizens mad at US soldiers
-Kent St. Massacre (1970)
-students led a massive protest
Draft Dodgers
-you could go to college to be delade on the list
-medical issues
-claim to be homosexual
-being wealthy
-sign up for the peace corps.
-1969
-nixon becomes pres. and calls for end to the war
-1970-72
-nixon chooses to pull troops out and, to extend the war to laos and cambodia
-he wanted to do this to cut off supplies to the enemy
-tried to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but they couldnt becuase they could just make trails around the
destroyed part
-Veitnamisation
-1973
-US pulls out of Vietnam "Peace with honor"
-1975
-All of vietnam becomes communism
War on Terror
-911
-Alkiada and Osama Bin Laden attacked the twin towers
-we still fighting terrorist groups, but we killed Bin Laden
-Obama pullled out all combat troops and now have advisors there
-so, we went to war with Iraq becuase of WMD's
-we went to war in Afghanistan because of 911
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