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Chapter 24 outline

Background to conflict

Chinese occupation

Le Loi

French colonization
Vietnamese independence

Ho Chi Minh

He who enlightens

Became committed to the ideas of Communism

Japanese army occupied Indochina

France and the Vietminh go to war

Ho Chi Minh returned to Vietnam 1941

Vietminh declared independence August 1945

500 000 gathered at independence celebration

The French and the Vietnamese were locked in battle in 1946

Mao Zedongs Communist takes over China in 1949

The US tried to turn around the Communism

The domino theory

The US payed a lot of Frances war effort

Money and military equippment were used against Vietminh gurrilla tacticks
The Geneva conference

The Second Geneva Naval Conference was a conference held to discuss naval arms limitation,
held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1932. This is a separate conference from the previous
disarmament conference, the Geneva Naval Conference of 1927

Cambodia, Great Britain, laos, the Peoples Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and the United
States joined the discussion

The Americans didnt want to see Vietnam hand over to the Communists. A cease re was
agreed to, but no deenite political setlement was achieved

General elections to reunify the country were secheduled for July 1956
Diem takes power in the south

Ngo Dinh Diem strongly anticommunist

Spendt several years in the US where his political views attracted powerful bakcers

Diem became president in 1955 in the Republic of Vietnam (south Vietnam)

Received more than 605 000 votes from just 450 000 registred voters

Diem refused to call an election in the south

Was a Roman Catholic and unpopular in the start

The large buddhist population represented the favoritism he showed toward catholics

By the late 1950s armed revolution had erupted in the south

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In 1959 military assistance began oweing from the north to the Vietminh who had stayed in the
south

In 1960 the southern Vietnminh formed the National government

Vietcong

Vietnamese Communistt
U.S. invovlement deepens

John F. Kennedy fully agreed with the Domino theory

December 1960 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam training Diema army of the republic
of vietnam

Kennedy Authorized US forces to engage in direction combat

The number of americans killed from 14 to 500 in 1963

Diems overthrow

South Vietnams Buddhist leader begun to openly oppose Diems rule

Hundreds of Buddhists wee arrested and killed in a crackdown

US ofcials in Saigon threatened to withdraw support for Diems unless he ended the campaign

Henry Cabot met with Diem in 1963

Diem was murdered in 1963 as well as his brother

The Tonkin Gulf resolution

Robert S. McNamara

Tonkin gulf resolution

Gave the rpesident authority to take all necessary measurem to repel any armed attack agaist
forces of the united states

Johnson claimend that the attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin were unprovoked

Vietnamese raids agains North Vietnam and had red rst

Wayne More of Oregon was one of just two senators who voted against the TTonking Gulf
Rsolution
U.S. forces in Vietnam

President Johnson soon called for anescalation of US military forces in Vietnam and oredered
the selective service agency charged with carrying out the military draft to call up more young
men to serve in the armed forces

April 1965 the Selective Service notied 13 700 draftees

The troops

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