Vietnam War

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Vietnam War
Vietcong
1954 Vietnam Gets Free From France
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Kennedy Sends Troops In 1961
By 1963 16,000 Military Advisors
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
"take all necessary measures to repel armed
attack against the forces of the United States
and to prevent further aggression."
LBJ President Now
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Operation Rolling Thunder
LBJ Calls for 340,000 drafted by 1966
Strategy Overwhelm Communists with Overwhelming
Firepower and Win over Those in the South!
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1968 Tet Offensive
LBJ Decides not to run, Republican Richard Nixon
Wins 1968 Almost 600,000 Troops in Nam
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Vietnamization
Take out US troops but supply the South and train
South Vietnamese Troops
1968 My Lai Massacre Leaked in 1970
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Protest
Kent State and Jackson State
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1972 Nixon Wins Again
1972 Talks Start, 1973 Nixon Bombs North Back to
Table
1973 Last Troops Leave, 1975 South Falls to the
North
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Results
58,000 US Troops Killed, 300,000 Wounded Well
Over 1 Million Vietnamese and Neighbors Dead
Veterans Not Respected, Against War mad for
Killing, For War mad for not Killing enough.
1 in 6 veterans suffered from Stress or
Substance Abuse