MON:
1988 - George H Bush (R) president
John Lennon Assassination
- to become famous
- lived in Hawaii
Sally Ride - first woman to be in space
1985 - found Titanic remains
Challenger accident
Berlin wall falls
TUE:
Vietnam conflict 1950-1975
- Frnache controlled the
WWII Japan took over
US helped to defeat Japan
French wanted to control Vietnam after WWII
Goals US
- stop communism
North Vietnamese
- independency
Ho Chi Minh
- very well educated and wealthy
- leader of North Vietnam
- US enemy in war
Geneva conference
- 1954
- like Korea split in 2 parts
- North and South Vietnam
-Geneva conference set up to unify the country
- Vietnam was not given independence
Escalation
- 1957-1975
- started with the deployment of military advisors to the South Vietnamese army
- the started using special forces (Green Berets) for commando-style operations
- then regualr troops were sent
Golf of tonkin incident
- congress gave president Johnson the power to wage war
- only two people voted against it
- after that troop number went up tremendously
- enemies north vietnamese, communists in the south
- Viet Cong
- people started questioning why the US fought there
- Tet - offensive
PENTAGON pAPERS
- government leaked information and was printed by the papers
- government said that they tried manipulating people and lied to people so they started getting upset and turned completely against the war
- 1968
- many innocent people were killed
- children and women were killed by American soldiers
- My Lai Massacre
-government of the south was very corrupt and bad
- the power of the press
- Napalm attack
- hot oil attack against villages
Anti war people
- 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 homosexuel
- 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 in fighting
- North and south Vietnam had to accept each other independence
- a few years after that the north invaded the south and got communist
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