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Title: The Vietnam Experience


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The Vietnam Experience
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Background
  • Outside influence
  • Mid 1950s Vietnam is split
  • North_____________ (Communist)
  • South_____________ (Anti-Comm)
  • Domino Theory
  • __________________ in Vietnam

3
US Involvement
  • Diem Government Corrupt
  • Pres. Kennedy ... gradual increase
  • Nov. 1963 _________________
  • Kennedy Assassinated ... ____________ determines
    course

4
Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964
5
Combatants
  • North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
  • ______________
  • Army of the ______________ (ARVN)
  • US Army

6
Climate of War
  • US Training
  • Village __________
  • ________________
  • Body Counts

7
Anti-War Movement
  • _____ Offensive
  • Lack of Understanding
  • Veterans ___________
  • Television
  • _________ Campuses

8
Election of 1968
  • Democrats...Johnson retires
  • _____________ Assassinated
  • Hubert Humphrey
  • Republicans_____________
  • American Independent Party ... George Wallace

9
US Failures
  • _________ Massacre
  • Cambodian Invasion (Spring 1970)
  • ____________ Riot
  • Hardhat Demonstration

10
The Ending
  • America leaves Vietnam 1973
  • ________________
  • Fall of ________ (April 1975)

11
Post-War America
  • Harsh Feelings and Lack of confidence in Military
    and Politicians
  • Vietnam Veterans
  • _____________________ Problems
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1982
  • ________________
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