The Vietnam Conflict Indochina War 1946 1954 Vietnam

The Vietnam Conflict Indochina War 1946 -1954 Vietnam War 1961 -1975

KEY QUESTIONS Why was there a war in Vietnam from 1961 to 1975? Who was fighting? How was the war fought? What were the material and political consequences of the war? Why was there opposition to the war in the US and elsewhere? Why did the US policy of containment fail?

Defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu May 1954

Ngo Dinh Diem Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai

How the war was fought Vietcong (VC) opposition to Diem Guerrilla tactics ‘melt into the countryside’ Supplied by North Vietnamese Gov’t in Hanoi through the Ho Chi Minh Trial Buddhist monk protesting Diem’s regime

Operation Rolling Thunder 1965 ‘carpet bombing’ Counterinsurgency: ‘strategic hamlet’ ‘search & destroy’ missions Chemical warfare: Agent Orange Napalm

Robert & John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson & Jackie Kennedy LBJ being sworn in as president after JFK’s assassination (Nov. 1963)

Escalation of the war between 1965 & 1968

‘body count’ Robert Mc. Namara Secretary of Defense (with JFK) General Westmoreland

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