Who Fought
- United States Armed Forces
- Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN- South Vietnamese Army)
- NLF- group of South Vietnamese guerrilla fighters (Vietcong)
- People's Army of Viet Nam (PAVN- the North Vietnamese Army *pronounced Pahvin*)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Several US ships were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin
- Most experts today do not think that the ships were attacked
- This was Johnson's ploy to get more involved in Vietnam
- On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take all necessary precautions in Vietnam
- Only two people voted against it
Tet Offensive
- President Johnson and General William Westmoreland kept saying that with more troops, we will win the war
- Most Americans tended to beliebe this at first
- The American public's 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
- Named after the lunar new year festival which is the most important Vietnamese holiday in South Vietnam
- Although we crushed the enemy militarily, the surprisingly huge offensive attack from an enemy that was supposedly almost defeated convinced many Americans that victory was impossible
Operation Rolling Thunder
- Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name for the non-stop bombing raids in North Vietnam conducted by the United States Armed Forces
Anti-War
- Why were so many people against the war?
- Tet Offensive
- Pentagon Papers
- Injuring/Killing innocent people (My Lai Massacre)
- Supporting bad government in the South
- Power of the Press
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