Vietnam

ByJeff JillsonKaitlynn Goula

Advisory Phase

Operation Ranch hand  Ranch Hand involved spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons

of defoliant and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of vegetation cover and food. 

Kennedy

Guerilla Warfare

War tactics

Ho Chi Minh Trail  a network of roads

built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, to provide logistical support to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War

Operation Chopper The helicopters transported over 1,000 South

Vietnamese paratroopers First time the US participated in major combat in the

Vietnam war.

Hanoi

French leave Vietnam

Richard Nixon

Ike Eisenhower

China and U.S.S.R.

Americanization Phase

Rolling Thunder During the Vietnam War, as part of the strategic bombing

campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam

Anti War Rallys

Martin Luther King JR Opposed war

Operation Cedar Falls

search and destroy operation

Dow Dow Chemical is a provider of plastics, chemicals, and

agricultural products with a presence in about 160 countries and employing about 50,000 people worldwide

Teach In’s

General Westmoreland

My Lai massacre

Election of 1968

Vietnamization phase

Cambodia

Ileagal Bombing of Cambodia

Sihanauk

King of Cambodia

Kent State protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia Killing 4 and injuring 9

Protesting Cambodia

D.C. Demonstrations

Nixon visits china

Nixon cuts troop levels by 70,000

Single party states

Jimmy carter