Vietnam

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Vietnam
and the Counterculture
From WWII - 1975
Part 1 to Election of 1968
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Before WWII

• Vietnam struggles for independence
• China, Japan, France
• 1919 Ho Chi Minh at Versailles
• self determination (Wilson)
• Ho becomes a Communist in 20s
• 1941 Atlantic Charter
• self determination (FDR)

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Vietnam WWII and after
Domino Theory

• Japan controls Vietnam during WWII
• A war for independence - France vs Vietnam, 1946
  1954
• U.S. aids French Truman and Ike. Small of
  U.S. advisors.
• 1954 Dienbienphu, Geneva Accords, SEATO.

To Stop Communism!
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U.S. intervenes

• Elections never held.
• 1957 civil war begins in Vietnam, North vs
  South. U.S. supports South and Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1961 JFK increases of advisors and sends
  special forces.
• Vietcong Communists in South Viet

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U.S. helicopter units arrive in 1961
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Problems with Diem
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Diem Overthrown
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LBJ

• July, 1964 5,000 more U.S. troops sent
• August, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident and
  resolution, air strikes begin.

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Operation Rolling Thunder
February, 1965
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Campus Unrest
Free Speech Movement SDS Port Huron Statement
Tom Hayden
The Counterculture
The Communes and Alternative Living Yippies
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Heaviest Air Raid of the war 9/12/66.
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Near Hanoi, 1966
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A napalm attack in Vietnam
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Anti-war Demonstation
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Tet Offensive - 1968
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My Lai - March 1968
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U.S. Troop Strength in Vietnam thru 1969
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U.S. Fatalities in Vietnam thru 1969
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War drives LBJ from office.
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Peace Talks begin in May, 1968
No progress!
The country is divided