Monday - went over forum posts and continued with presentations
Tuesday- continued with presentations
Wednesday's - presentations
Thursday- presentations and Vietnam
Friday - Vietnam
1960's
Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy Brothers were having secret relationships
JFK assassination
MLK assassination
Malcolm X assassination
Montgomery Bus boycott- after Rosa Parks was kicked out of the bus because she wouldn't give up her seat
Selma to Montgomery March
1990's
the OJ Simpson case
President Clinton had an affair with a co worker
1970's
Nixon won all but one state in 72
Carter won the 74 election
gay rights movement
Apollo 13 landed on earth
Clean air act- limit polluting
26 amendment 18 years old the right to vote
Iran Hostage crisis- they took 66 Americans
Watergate- business complex people wanted to break into the Watergate head quarters and get information about demarcate to get Nixon re elected, they were caught. Taping the phones. Once he found out about the break in and tried to cover it up, and he resigned.
2000's
Bush and Gore 2000 election Bush won
2004 election Bush won again
2008 - 2012 Obama won
9/11 a terrorist attack on US soil
The Vietnam Conflict 1950- 1975
What were the goals of the United States in this war?
-A lot of people were drafted
-Many people didn’t want to go so they went to college or Canada
What were the goals of the United States in this war?
- We wanted to stop communism
What was the goal of the communist North Vietnamese?
-They wanted to spread communism
The French Connection
-France started controlling French Indo-China throughout WWII and the Japanese took it over
-After the war was over the US worked with Vietnamese to stop the Japanese
- The French fought the Vietnamese to keep the land but lost
- After that Vietnamese were independent for a while
Ho Chi Minh- was a very wealthy man, but dressed as a poor person because most people were poor.
-He was at the peace conference after WWI asked for independent but he didn’t get it.
Geneva Conference – 1954
-Vietnam was portioned temporarily into a Northern and Southern zone on Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- The North was to be ruled by Ho Chi Minh
-The Geneva conference 1954 set up elections to unify the country by july
-such elections were never held because neither side wanted to lose
Who Fought
-The United States armed Forces
- The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN- the South Vietnamese army)
vs.
-The NLF a group of South Vietnamese guerilla fighters (Vietcong)
- The people’s Army of Viet Nam (PAVN- the North Vietnamese Army, pronounced Pahvin)
Escalation 1957- 1975
-under escalation, US involvement increased over a period of years. Started with the deployment of noncombatant military advisors t other South Vietnamese army
-Then started using special forces (green Berets) for commando- style operations
-Use of regular troops whose purpose was to be defensive only
-Once US troops in offensive combat
-Once US troops were in active combat, escalation shifted to the adding of more US troops
Kennedy didn’t like the President Diem
We didn’t like Diem but he was against the communist party, but we had him killed
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
-A body of water
-Several US ships were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin
-congress gave President Johnson gave him the power to wage war. Only two people in Congress voted against it
Ted offensive
-President Johnson and General William Westmoreland kept saying that with more troops we will in the war
-Most Americans tended to believe 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 surprising huge offensive attack from an enemy that was supposedly almost defeated convinced many Americans that victory was impossible
-there was an increasing belief among people that the government was misleading the American people about a war
-When General Westmoreland called for still more troops to be sent to Vietnam after the Test offensive, more and more people started protesting
-The support of the government and war effort suffered even more when the New York times published the Pentagon papers
-it was a top-secret historical study about the war, that showed how the government was misleading the US public in all stage of the war
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
-Its purpose was to destroy the will of the North Vietnamese to fight to destroy
Anti – War
-Why were so many people against the war?
-Tet offensive
- Pentagon Papers
- Injuring/ killing innocent people (My Lai Massacre)
- Supporting a bad government in South
- The power of the press
Kent St.- College students protesting against the war. National Guard was there and several students were killed.
- Nixon started bombing Laos and Cambodia
My Lai Massacre March 1968
-US soldiers killed 504 Vietnamese civilians
The dead civilians included fifty age 3 or younger, 69 between 4 and 7, and 27 in their 70s or 80’s
-women were raped and bodies mutilated
How did people get out of serving?
- went to Canada or Sweden
-went to college (student deferment )
-Got married
- Medically unfit for service
-Joined the National Guard or Peace corps
-claimed to be homosexual
-being rich
Nixon and Vietnam
-Nixon called for the “Vietnamization” of the war
-“Peace with Honor”
- Gradually pull US troops out and train the ARVN to take our place fighting the North
-Expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia leading to college protest (Kent St.)
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