Table Of Contents

Vocabulary......................................................................... pg 3-5

Early Wars in Vietnam...................................................... pg 6-7

Year of 1968....................................................................... pg 8-9

Later Years in Vietnam.................................................. pg 10-11

1960's culture................................................................. pg 12-13

Vietnam Timeline........................................................... pg 14-15

Nixon's Presidency.............................................................. pg 16

Ford & Carter's Presidency................................................ pg 17

Reagan's Presidency.......................................................... pg 18

George W. Bush's, Bill Clinton's, & Barrack Obama's Presidency............................................................................ pg 19

Vocabulary

-Ho Chi Minh: Communist leader of North Vietnam in 1950 and 1960

-Dien Bien Phu: The place that the final battle took place that forced the french out of Vietnam

-Geneva Accords: a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam until unification election in 1956

-Ngo Dinh Diem: Leader of South Vietnam, 1954-63, supported by United States, but not by Vietnamese Buddhist majority, assassinated in 1963

-Vietcong: The South Vietnamese communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War

-Gulf of Tonkin resolution" adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the President broad powers to wage was in Vietnam

-Ho Chi Minh Trail: a network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam

-Napalm: a flammable liquid used in warrfare

-Agent Orange: a toxic leaf- killing chemical sprayed by U.S. plannes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts

-Credibility gap: a public distrust of statements made by the governmnet

-Vietnamization: President Nixon's strategy foe ending U.S. involvement troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam war, involving the gradual withdrawal of the U.S

-Silent Majority: a name given by President Richard Nixon to the moderate mainstream Americans who quietly supported his Vietnam war policies

-My Lai Massacre: a village in Northern South Vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilians including women and children were massacred by U.S. troops in may 1968

-Kent State University: an Ohio university where national Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4, 1979 wounding nine and killing four

-Pentagon papers: a 7,000 pg paper document leaked to the press in 1971 by the former Defense department worker Daniel Ellsberg revealing that the U.S. gov. had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam war

-War Powers Act: a law enacted in 1973, limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting congress

Early Wars In Vietnam

-The USA got involved so they could prevent areas of the world to fall under Communist influence.

-Robert McNamar was an american buisness executive and the 8th Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Johnson power to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.

-The men who had physical or mental problems, were married, with children, attending college or nedded at home to support their families will get out of the draft

-Vietnam was the first major war in which gorilla tactics were used and largest homefront negative reaction to an American war

The Tet Offensive made people think we no longer had the ability to win.

Year of 1968

-MLK Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine

Motel in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968

-Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 pm in Dallas, TX while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza

-On January 31, 1968 some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam

Later years in Vietnam

Nixon's strategy on Vietnam was to trian, equip and expnad South Vietnamese forces so that they could take over more military responsibilities for their own defense against the North communities, and at the same time, allowed the U.S. to gradually withdraw its combat troops from South Vietnam

On may 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War.

The U.S left Vietnam on

February 12, 1973

When Soldiers arrived home they were treated with

disrespect and portrayed as baby killers, psychos,

drug addicts, and war mongers.

In Vietnam 58,148 were killed

and 304,000 were wounded

The U.S spent $173 billion on the Vietnam war.