CAUSES, COURSE, AND OUTCOME OF THE VIETNAM

WAR

Vietnam: 1945-1975

Origins

Short History of Early Vietnam

Vietnamese Heroes

The Trung Sisters

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Origins

Vietnamese Independence

Kublai Khan

Tran Hung Dao

French Rule

French Colonization

19th Century Imperialism

French Methods of Control

Ho Chi Minh

Born: May 19, 1890

Nghe An

Moving to France

Paris Peace Conference, 1919

French Communist Party

Ho Chi Minh

Living in exile

Indochinese Communist Party

Impact of WWII on Vietnam

Vietminh

Conditions in Vietnam during WWII

The role of the Vietminh

French Control

Japanese Control

The U.S. Office of Strategic Services

September 2, 1945

French Efforts to Keep Control

French Requests

The 16th Parallel

Chinese Forces

British Forces

French Restoration of Power

Later divided at the 17th parallel

The Indochina War

Peace Talks

Reasons for Independence

Haiphong

November 1946

The Indochina War

Tactics

French Strategy

U.S. Policy

Ho’s Proposals

The Indochina War

Moscow’s Puppet?

American beliefs

Non-Recognition

prejudice and stereotypes

The Indochina War

Stalin’s relationship with Ho Chi Minh

Intelligence reports

French use of the Marshall Plan

Keeping Allies

The Indochina War

Help from China

The Cold War Mentality

NSC 68

The Domino Theory

The Indochina War

BAO DAI

Annan

Dean Acheson

Vo Nguyen Giap

Cao Bang

The Indochina War

General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Vietnamese National Army (VNA)

American Financial Efforts

Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG)

The Indochina War

Military Assistance

Dynamic Program

Operation Lorraine

The Indochina War

Eisenhower

Dulles

General Henri Navarre

The Navarre Plan

The Indochina War

Giap

Dien Bien Phu

Long haired army

March 13, 1954

American Perspective

May 7, 1954

Results

Results

Salvaging Southern Vietnam

The Geneva Conference

April – July 1954

Dulles in Geneva

Chinese and Soviet Influence

Results of the Conference

A New Era

Ngo Dinh Diem

October 1955

The Republic of Vietnam

South Vietnamese Army

Geneva Accords

Ngo Dinh Diem

Vietcong

National Liberation Front

“Two Vietnams”

Flexible Response

“Flexible Response”

Military Advisors

Counter-Insurgency

Search and Destroy Missions

Defoliants

Agent Orange

Flexible Response

Strategic Hamlet Programs

The Green Berets

Social And Political Reforms

Ngo Dinh Diem

Anti-Buddhist Policies

Self Immolations

Death of Diem

Self-Immolation

John F. Kennedy

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Continuing Kennedy’s Policies

August 2-4, 1964

Maddox

Turner Joy

“Open Aggression on the high seas”

Escalating The War

Vietcong Efforts

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

Operation Rolling Thunder

100,000 Troops sent in 1965

Napalm

The War at Home

The Great Society

War on Poverty

Credibility Gap

War Protests

The “poor man’s fight”

Effects of Television on the War

1968

The Tet Offensive

January 1968

Psychological Victory

My Lai

William Calley Jr

The 1968 Election

THE TET OFFENSIVE

Enter Richard Nixon

The 1968 Election

Vietnamization

Peace with Honour

Laos and Cambodia

Nixon Doctrine

Richard Nixon

The Draft

The Lottery System

Continued Protests

Richard Nixon

Détente

Key Areas: Taiwan, Vietnam, The United Nations, The Soviet Union.

Reasons for détente with the PRC?

Henry Kissinger’s ‘ping pong’ diplomacy.

Henry Kissinger

Richard Nixon

Why did China want détente with the USA?

Rivals

Foreign Policy Issues

US withdrawal

Worries over Japan

On Policy

Reflection on the 3rd World

Richard Nixon

What did China gain from détente with the United States?

UN Membership

Results of UN Membership

Taiwan

Japan

Vietnam

Richard Nixon

Kent State University (May 1970)

The Pentagon Papers(June 1971)

The Credibility Gap

The Paris Peace Talks

May 13, 1972-January 27, 1973

The Paris Peace Accords

Richard Nixon

The Watergate Break-in (first story broke June 18, 1972)

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

The 1972 Election

Summer 1973

Nixon Resigns (August 1974)

Gerald Ford

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Left: Woodward; Right: Bernstein

The Effects of The Vietnam War

The War Powers Act, 1973

The Vietnam Syndrome

The fall of Saigon

Results