Title: CHAPTER 30, SECTION 2
1U.S. INVOLVEMENT AND ESCALATION IN
VIETNAM,1965-68
2 VOCABULARY
- ROBERT McNAMARA
- DEAN RUSK
- WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
- M.A.C.V.
- NAPALM
- AGENT ORANGE
- SEARCH-AND-DESTROY MISSION
- CREDIBILITY GAP
3 AMERICA ESCALATES IN VIETNAM
- 1964 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
- DEMOCRATS LBJ
- REPUBLICAN SEN. BARRY GOLDWATER (AZ)
- GOLDWATER VIEWED BY SOME AS TOO CONSERVATIVE
- EX SOME BELIEVED HE WANTED WAR W/ USSR
- LBJ CAMPAIGN PORTRAYS HIM AS WAR HAWK(DEFINE)
- EX LBJ CAMPIAGN TV ADS
- LBJ CLAIMS HE OPPOSES SENDING COMBAT TROOPS TO
V-NAM SEE QUOTE, P. 890 - LBJ WINS ELECTION
4 ESCALATION
- 1964 CONGRESS PASSES TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION
- LBJ STILL DOESNT WANT TO SEND U.S. GROUND FORCES
INTO V-NAM - SEE QUOTE, TOP P. 890
- MARCH, 65
- LBJ ORDERS U.S. GROUND FORCES TO V-NAM
- BY END OF YEAR, 180,000 COMBAT FORCES IN V-NAM
- WHY?
- FEAR OF COMMUNIST EXPANSION IN 3rd WORLD NATIONS
- CONTAINMENT / DOMINO THEORY
- QUESTION WAS LBJs DECISION TO SEND U.S. FORCES
TO V-NAM ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT PREVIOUS
PRESIDENTS HAD DONE? - WHAT DID AMERICANS THINK?
- 1965 SURVEY / POLL
- 61 SUPPORT LBJS V-NAM POLICY
- 24 OPPOSED TO LBJS V-NAM POLICY
- CONFLICTING VIEWS
- UNDERSEC. OF STATE GEORGE BALL OPPOSED TO
SENDING TROOPS - SEC. OF STATE DEAN RUSK SUPPORTS SENDING TROOPS
(SEE QUOTE, P. 890)
5 ROBERT McNAMARA Secretary of Defense,
1961- 67
6 ESCALATION (CONTD.)
- GEN. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
- 1964 TAKES COMMAND OF M.A.C.V. (COMMAND OF U.S.
FORCES IN V-NAM) - M.A.C.V. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
- 1965 REQUESTS MORE TROOPS
- LATE 65 180,000 TROOPS DEPLOYED TO V-NAM
- WESTMORELAND REQUESTS MORE TROOPS
- WHY? SEE QUOTE, P. 890
- 1967 U.S. TROOP s REACH 500,000
- U.S. TROOPS s EVENTUALLY REACH 540,000 IN
MID-1969
7- Gen. William Westmoreland, Gen. Vo Ngyuen Giap,
- Commander, U.S. Forces Commander, NVA / VC
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9 10Quiz
- Who was the American General in Vietnam?
- Who was the US Secretary of Defense?
- Name one advantage of the United States in the
Vietnam War? - Name on advantage of the North Vietnamese/
Viet-Cong? - What is Agent Orange?
11- NVA Trucks on the
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- NVA
soldiers helping - supply
trucks
12 COMBAT IN VIETNAM
- U.S. APPROACH TO WAR
- SUPERIOR WEAPONRY / TECHNOLOGY WOULD WIN WAR
- COMMUNIST FORCES WERE NOT WELL ENOUGH EQUIPPED OR
TRAINED TO WIN - V-NAMESE HAD NEVER FOUGHT AS POWERFUL A NATION
LIKE THE U.S. - QUESTION WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICAN
BIAS GOING INTO THE WAR? - COMMUNIST APPROACH TO WAR
- USE KNOWLEDGE OF TERRAIN TO ADVANTAGE
- USE SUPPORT OF CITIZENS TO ADVANTAGE
- CASUALITES / BODY COUNT MEAN NOTHING
- USE GUERRILLA TACTICS TO WEAR DOWN U.S.
- ADAPT / IMPROVISE WEAPONRY, METHODS TO OVERCOME
TECHNOLOGY DISADVANTAGE - SEE VC TUNNEL MAP, P. 891
- SEE QUOTE, P. 891
13 VIETNAM WAR INFANTRY
- U.S. Army Infantry N.V.A. Infantry
V.C. Infantry
14U.S. INFANTRY LEADER, VIETNAM1967
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16OLIVER STONE,U.S. ARMY,VIETNAM,1968
17 AK 47 ASSAULT RIFLE
18 ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE (RPG)
19 A WAR OF ATTRITION
- DEFINE WAR OF ATTRITION
- WHY WAS VIETNAM A WAR OF ATTRITION?
- WESTMORELANDS VIEW OF THE WAR
- AS THE BODY COUNT INCREASES, SURRENDER WILL BE
MORE LIKELY - SEARCH-AND-DESTROY MISSIONS COULD INCREASE THE
BODY COUNT - U.S. FORCES HAD TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF
THE CIVILIAN POPULATION - PROBLEMS
- VC GUERILLA WARFARE IS DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH
- U.S. SEARCH-AND-DESTROY MISSIONS OFTEN ALIENATE
CIVILIANS - EX. NAPALM ATTACKS, AGENT ORANGE, VILLAGE
ATTACKS - HIGH NUMBERS OF WAR REFUGEES (AT LEAST 3 MIL.)
- U.S. TROOP MORALE DETERIORATES WHY?
- U.S. TACTICS DONT APPEAR TO BE WINNING
- CORRUPTION OF ARVN / S.V-NAM GOVT.
- FRAGGING INCIDENTS OCCUR
- AVAILABILITY OF ILLEGAL DRUGS ( MARIJUANA,
HEROIN, ETC.) CAUSES PROBLEMS
20 THE FULLBRIGHT HEARINGS
- WHEN? 1966
- WHO? SEN. J. WILLIAM FULLBRIGHT, D., ARK.
- WHAT? TELEVISED SENATE HEARRINGS
- SUBJECT?
- U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM
- WAS LBJs ADMINISTRATION BEING HONEST W/ THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT THE SITUATION IN VIETNAM? - DID LBJs ADMINISTRATION DECEIVE CONGRESS ABOUT
THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT? - RESULT?
- FULLBRIGHT ACCUSES LBJ w/ A LACK OF CANDOR
ABOUT THE WAR - CREDIBILITY GAP FOR LBJ WORSENS
- BIG QUESTION IS THE GOVT . LYING TO THE PUBLIC
ABOUT THE WAR?
21SENATORJ. WILLIAM FULLBRIGHTDEMOCRAT,
ARKANSASCHAIRMAN,SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS
COMMITTEE
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24- U.S. ARMY
- INFANTRY ON PATROL,
- VIETNAM - 1967
25 STANDARD INFANTRY WEAPONS, VIETNAM
U.S. ARMY / U.S. MARINES
- M-16 A1 Service Rifle M-16 A1 with
-
M203 Grenade Launcher - M-60 Machine Gun M79 Grenade Launcher
26 27- TRAINING
- MAINTENANCE
- MANUAL, 1969
- M-16 A1 RIFLE
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30 MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV, USSR
31- AK 47
- Automata Kalashnikova,1947
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34 VIETNAM TUNNELS TODAY
35- HUEYs IN ACTION,
- VIETNAM, U.S. ARMY
36 U.S. HUEY HELICOPTER
37 U.S. COBRA ATTACK HELICOPTER
38 U.S.A.F. B-52 BOMBER
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41 DAMAGE TO THE GREAT SOCIETY
- WAR ESCALATION BROUGHT INCREASED COSTS
- U.S. ECONOMY SUFFERED INFLATION GROWS
- 1967 LBJ ASKS CONGRESS FOR TAX INCREASE TO
CONTROL INFLATION - BUTCONGRESS WONT APPROVE TAX INCREASE W/OUT 6
BILLION REDUCTION IN GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAMS - LBJ SUFFERS CREDIBILITY GAP
- WAR IS A LIVING ROOM WAR- NIGHTLY MEDIA
COVERAGE EXPOSES PROBLEMS IN WAR - GREAT SOCIETY PROMISES ARE NOT BEING MET
- 1965 66 16,000 U.S. KIA
- THE PROMISES OF THE GREAT SOCEITY HAVE BEEN SHOT
DOWN ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF VIETNAM - -MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
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43 VIETNAM ERA QUOTES
- I AM NOT ABOUT TO SEND AMERICAN BOYS 9 OR 10,000
MILES AWAY FROM HOME TO DO WHAT ASIAN BOYS OUGHT
TO BE DOING FOR THEMSELVES LBJ, 1964 - THE ARVN CANNOT STAND UP TO THIS PRESSURE
WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL U.S. COMBAT SUPPORT ON THE
GROUND. THE ONLY POSSIBLE RESPONSE IS THE
AGGRESSIVE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. TROOPS - GEN.
WESTMORELAND, 1965 - THE MORE THE AMERICANS TRIED TO DRIVE US AWAY
FROM OUR LAND, THE MORE WE BURROWED INTO IT -
MAJOR NGUYEN QUOT, VC - YOU CAN KILL TEN OF MY MEN FOR EVERY ONE I KILL
OF YOURS, BUT EVEN AT THOSE ODDS, YOU WILL LOSE
AND I WILL WIN HO CHI MINH
44 VIETNAM ERA QUOTES
- IF I HAD THOUGHT THEY WOULD TAKE THIS PUNISHMENT
AND FIGHT THIS WELL, I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
DIFFERENTLY AT THE START ROBERT McNAMARA, 1967 - THE COMMUNISTS WERE PREPARED TO GO ON AND ON,
AND THEY HAD FACTORED THEIR HUMAN COSTS INTO THE
EQUATION STANLEY KARNOW - JUST REMEMBER THIS COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS HIDE
AMONG THE PEOPLE. IF YOU WIN THE PEOPLE OVER TO
YOUR SIDE, THE COMMUNIST GUERILLAS HAVE NO PLACE
TO HIDE. - EDWARD LANDSDALE, U.S. ARMY SPECIAL
FORCES - WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE
IT U.S. ARMY OFFICER, BEN TRE, 1968
45 VIETNAM ERA QUOTES
- WERE FIGHTING TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE, AND THEYRE
FIGHTING EACH OTHER U.S. GOVT. OFFICIAL, 1966 - VICTORY LIES WITHIN OUR GRASP THE ENEMYS
HOPES ARE FADING GEN. WESTMORELAND, 1967 - WE CAN SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
ROBERT McNAMARA, 1967 - I WANT TO GET OUT, BUT I DONT WANT TO GIVE IN
AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE
46- LBJ CARTOON -
- LBJ SHOWING THE
- SCAR VIETNAM HAS
- LEFT ON HIM
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