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Containment and Truman
Dominoes and Eisenhower
Non Nuclear Conflict and JFK
Consolidating the Conflict and LBJ
Withdrawal and Nixon
Policy Changes
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Containment: Stoppingand holding communismfrom a position
ofstrength.
Truman Policy: Thiswas a policy that statedthe US would
providepolitical, military andeconomic assistance for
to all democratic statesunder threat from any/allauthoritarian
forces.
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Dominoes!!!!! The Theory of consecutive
national Communist takeovers
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Term: 1961-1963
May have heard of Him in
relationship with the
Cuban Missile Crisis andthe JFK assassination
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Why Vietnam?
Scared of a
Nuclear Conflict
Needed a newstage for war
Had to fight
Communism andthe USSR
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Diem: was despised by JFK who saw him
as a gangster and thug
Ho Chi Minh: Communist, Nationalist,
feared for what he represented. Also
feared for is abilities as a leader and what
he meant for the North Vietnamese andthe Viet Cong
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The Infamous JFK Assassination:
Before: After:
Minimal Troops
invested in Vietnam MASS increase introops numbers
in Indochina and
JFKs Death
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=jfk%20assassination&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=t16xkZS1wIVT_M&tbnid=SgPb_KQhXT9p4M:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/21/jfk-assassination-anniversary-eternal-flame-flickers-but-still/&ei=B8gRUs3DOYankAWB44HwCA&bvm=bv.50768961,d.dGI&psig=AFQjCNFwDfc-8gp92KXu9GcuG97myNOJyw&ust=1376983389000054
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Term: 1963-69LBJ was a unique
individual: he has
been describe as: Abully, a flatterer, asupreme negotiator,an
idealist, an
egomaniac and yetwas insecure, all atonce.
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Hawks: Men of government who heldhyper-aggressive views towards
the War
My solution to the problem would be to tell the
North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got todrawn in
their horns and stop their aggression or we'regoing to bomb them
into the stone age. General CurtisLe May
Doves: Men of government were whowanted to approach the war in a
moremoderate and cautious manner
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LBJ felt politically trapped by the
Vietnamese conflict
Too proud and also too insecure to
withdraw I guess weve got no choice, but it scares the death
out of me. I think everybodys going to think were
landing marines, were off to battleLyndon Baines
Johnson
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LBJ stated that he view the Communists
as Bullies who if given the chance would
wind up chasing you right out of your own
house.
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Term:1969-1974
May know him in
relation to the
Watergate scandal,
Kent State Massacre
and Negotiations
with China.
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Vietnamisation: Change to the Truman
Policy to what be known as the Nixon
Policy. Blamed and supported South
Vietnam at the same time.
Two step process
Operation Phoenix
Negotiations with China and The USSR
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The greatest honor history can bestow is
the title of peacemaker. - RICHARD NIXON,Inaugural Address, Jan.
20, 1969
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is
through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a
piece of another nation.- RICHARD NIXON, No More
Vietnams
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Eventual Withdrawal of Troops
Less aggressive approach to Communist
regimes
Forms of U.S. support to nations
Commitment per President
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