The

Vietnam
War

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The Vietnam War

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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During World
War II the
Japanese
drove the
French out of
Vietnam.
Vietnamese
freedom
fighters fought
against the
Japanese.
Ho Chi Minh meeting with the USAs OSS.
When Japan was defeated, the French
returned

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Ho Chi Minh
nationalist who
asked Woodrow
Wilson to allow
Vietnamese
people selfdetermination (
after WWI)
after fighting
against
Japanese, Ho
asks the USA to
support
Vietnamese
peoples
independence

The French
could not
afford to hold
Vietnam.
The USA
helped
France, and by
1954, the USA
was paying 80%
of the French
costs in
Vietnam.
After
Worldthe
WarFrench
II ended,
the colonial
powersof
In 1954,
lost
the Battle
moved
takeand
overVietnam
their colonies.
Dien back
BientoPhu
won its
freedom.
The
USA backed the colonial powers.

Vietnam Wins Freedom from the

French

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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Vietnamese independence (Wilson refused)
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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iii. after WWII, Vietminh fought US supported
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iv. Dien Bien Phu French forces defeated
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v. Geneva Conference created Communist North
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and Democratic South divided at 17th parallel
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Cu Chi Tunnel

The USA sends

supplies and
money to South
Vietnam.
It also
provides
special forces
training and
military
advisors.
South Vietnam becomes unstable.
Vietcong forces fight to get a
communist government in the South.

On July 30, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox

steamed into the coastal waters of North Vietnam
known as the Gulf of Tonkin.

After the attack on the USS Maddox, President Johnson

gets Congress to declare war on North Vietnam.

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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Vietnamese independence (Wilson refused)
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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iii. after WWII, Vietminh fought US supported
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French for freedom, USSR supported Vietminh
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iv. Dien Bien Phu French forces defeated
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v. Geneva Conference created Communist North
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and Democratic South divided at 17th parallel
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vi. Domino Theory leads to US involvement
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a. Gulf of Tonkin Incident US declares war
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The War in Vietnam

Total War in Vietnam

Protests against the war

in Vietnam

and in the USA

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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Vietnamese independence (Wilson refused)
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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iii. after WWII, Vietminh fought US supported
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iv. Dien Bien Phu French forces defeated
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v. Geneva Conference created Communist North
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and Democratic South divided at 17th parallel
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vi. Domino Theory leads to US involvement
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a. Gulf of Tonkin Incident US declares war
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b. brutal war becomes unpopular
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c. Vietnamization Nixons plan to withdraw
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In 1975, the Communist

Vietcong overran Saigon.

Thousands of people fled to the American

Embassy to be evacuated.

2.7 million Americans served in the Vietnam war

300,000 were wounded in action
75,000 were disabled
Of the casualties listed on The Wall, approximately
1,300 remain missing in action
58,129 were killed
The average age was 19

On the Vietnamese side

it is estimated
1.1 million North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong (Southern
resistance soldiers) were killed
Over 2 million North and South Vietnamese
citizens were killed

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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Vietnamese independence (Wilson refused)
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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iii. after WWII, Vietminh fought US supported
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French for freedom, USSR supported Vietminh
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iv. Dien Bien Phu French forces defeated
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v. Geneva Conference created Communist North
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and Democratic South divided at 17th parallel
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vi. Domino Theory leads to US involvement
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a. Gulf of Tonkin Incident US declares war
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b. brutal war becomes unpopular
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c. Vietnamization Nixons plan to withdraw
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vii. By 1973 US troops leave 1975 all Vietnam
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Vietnam War: 1965-1973

The Khmer
Rouge rounded
up city dwellers
and forced
them to go work
in the fields.

Millions Died
The Khmer Rouge
were led by Pol Pot.

When
the Rouge
USA pulled
The
Khmer
out of Vietnam,
it left
believed
that people
a power
vacuum
in the
were
equal,
but that
surrounding
countries.
to
be equal everyone
had to be a peasant
The Khmer Rouge came
(they also had no food
out of
in
from
thethe
USjungle
bombing).
Cambodia.

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i. Ho Chi Minh went to Versailles (1919) asked for
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Vietnamese independence (Wilson refused)
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ii. Ho returned and formed Vietminh
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iii. after WWII, Vietminh fought US supported
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French for freedom, USSR supported Vietminh
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iv. Dien Bien Phu French forces defeated
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v. Geneva Conference created Communist North
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and Democratic South divided at 17th parallel
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vi. Domino Theory leads to US involvement
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a. Gulf of Tonkin Incident US declares war
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b. brutal war becomes unpopular
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c. Vietnamization Nixons plan to withdraw
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viii. Cambodia became Communist in 1975 under Pol
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Pot and Khmer Rouge start Killing Fields
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ix. Vietnam invades Cambodia (1978) restore order
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Cambodias Killing
Fields