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Title: Causes of American Involvement in Vietnam


1
Causes of American Involvement in Vietnam
  • Ch 23 Sec 1
  • Notes

2
Where is Vietnam?
3
Domino Theory
  • Cold War Term
  • Fall of one country to communism means many more
    will fall
  • Ike coins term

4
Containment
  • U.S. Cold War policy
  • Stuck to it in Korea
  • Continued belief in this concept in Vietnam

5
French Indochina
  • The French control Vietnam
  • 1950 Harry Truman decides to aid French
  • Start losing control of their colony

6
Rise of Vietminh
  • League of Independence of Vietnam
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Communist
  • Fight against French control

7
Republic of Vietnam
  • Emperor Bao Dai
  • Democratic
  • Formed by French to fight against Vietminh
  • War until May 1954
  • Defeated by Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu

8
A Divided Vietnam
  • Geneva Accords
  • Split at 17th parallel
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • N.Vietnam Communist
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • S. Vietnam anti-communist
  • Elections in 1956
  • Agreed at Geneva
  • S. Vietnam refuses

9
U.S. Involvement
  • Eisenhower pledges support to Diem
  • Containment
  • By 1960
  • 675 military advisors in South Vietnam

10
JFKs Vietnam Policy
  • Protect spread of Communism at all cost
  • Send VP Johnson to Vietnam
  • Needs more aid196316,000 advisors

11
JFKs Vietnam Policy
  • Diems Leadership
  • for economic reform went to military or own
    pocket
  • Strategic Hamlets
  • Pushes Catholicism
  • U.S. supports coup Diems Assassination

12
LBJs Vietnam Policy
  • Belief in Containment
  • Diems successors unpopular
  • Viet Cong NLF gain popularity
  • Aided by Ho Chi Minh
  • Convinced he needed to escalate the war

13
LBJs Vietnam Policy
  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident
  • Actually doesnt occur
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Congress easily
  • Take all necessary measures to repel any armed
    attack against the forces of the United States
    and to prevent further action
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