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VIETNAM , 1946-75 (the 10 000 Day War )

VIETNAM , 1946-75 (the 10 000 Day War ). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NYw2wZads. PHASE 1 - A WAR OF COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE FRENCH Vietnam had been a French colony under the name of French Indochina (along with Cambodia and Laos)

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VIETNAM , 1946-75 (the 10 000 Day War )

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  1. VIETNAM, 1946-75 (the 10 000 Day War) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NYw2wZads

  2. PHASE 1 - A WAR OF COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE FRENCH • Vietnam had been a French colony under the name of French Indochina (along with Cambodia and Laos) • Vietnam began to fight for its independence from France during WW II ( when France was preoccupied with European conflict) • the Vietnamese revolutionary leader was Ho Chi Minh, a Communist • wanted to be the leader of an independent, communist Vietnam; Ho received support from both the USSR and “Red” China

  3. this colonial war raged from 1946-54, culminating in the French defeat at Dienbienphu • Fr. decided it wanted out and called a peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland (attended by France, Vietnam, the US, and the USSR) • the decision of the conference was to partition Vietnam into a communist North led by Ho and a “democratic” South Vietnam led by Ngo Dinh Diem • the settlement was an outgrowth of basic Cold War tensions between the Americans and Soviets and clearly reflected the US policy of containment with respect to Soviet communist expansionism • the US had come to see South Vietnam as a “domino” that they couldn’t afford to lose Episode 1 after intro to 7:48

  4. PHASE 2 – AMERICAN ESCALATION AND MILITARY INVOLVEMENT • this phase originated with “Ike” and JFK but was intensified under Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), who assumed the presidency after JFK’s assassination • The U.S. never formally issued a declaration of war, but after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, where 2 American destroyers were apparently fired upon by the North Vietnamese, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions (August 1964) Congress gave LBJ their support in sending American personnel and materials

  5. Search and Destroy • Search and Destroy refers to a militarystrategy that became a large component of the Vietnam War. • The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward. • The strategy was the result of a new technology, the helicopter, which resulted in a new form of warfare, the fielding of air cavalry, • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I09jM1q6fWo • 27:44 min in

  6. in spite of ongoing escalation throughout the 1960s, the US experienced a lack of success against the Vietnamese guerrilla forces in S. Vietnam (the Vietcong) as the US Army was unprepared for their tactics and mentality • The US was also never entirely successful in shutting down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a supply line that ran between North and South Vietnam via difficult jungle terrain, often underground and through neighbouring nations like Cambodia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poE_nNW9-yk

  7. TetOffinsive • the war definitely turned against the US in 1968, when the NVA’s General Giap began the Tet Offensive, a surprise offensive on a major Vietnamese holiday that saw attacks all over the country, including in Saigon itself • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHnnROYIk_Y • 1:25 – 9:45

  8. ongoing US casualties and losses saw an increase in antiwar sentiment on the American Home Front, in large part because Vietnam was a TV War where American audiences saw the brutality of war firsthand After Tet the draft is increased 4x

  9. this included American atrocities at My Lai (Lieutenant Calley) • they also witnessed the usage of weapons like napalm and Agent Orange, which devastated the environment

  10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr54QBg57RE 4:40 – 7:48 • Increasingly the American people came to perceive the “Credibility Gap”, i.e. they no longer believed that LBJ was telling them the truth about events in the war • in 1968, LBJ chose not to run for president, and Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected on a platform of “Peace with Honor”

  11. Nixon wanted the South Vietnamese to play a greater role in the war, a policy he labeled Vietnamization • In spite of that, he continues carpet bombing Hanoi and orders a secret invasion of Cambodia

  12. The Counterculture gathered momentum (Hippies, Flower Children, etc.), protests became widespread and further polarizes the nation • this was intensified after the Kent State Massacre • National Guardsmen opened fire on student protestors in Ohio, killing four • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xJCZC-88w • 18:19- 20:02 • 28:08 – 40:43 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lr8Y7M1lE • 17:30 – 20:08

  13. Getting out of the War • Nixon relied on the diplomacy of Henry Kissinger to achieve peace and/or an American withdrawal • War for America ends in 1973

  14. PHASE 3 – VIETNAMESE CIVIL WAR, 1973-75 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lr8Y7M1lE 32:43 – end Or if time 28:12 to end • the NVA easily defeated the South by 1975; the South had appealed to Nixon for aid, which had been promised, but by 1975 Nixon was embroiled in the domestic Watergate Crisis, and he was in essence a “lame duck” • 1975 – the US abandoned its embassy in Saigon, which was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in the newly unified and communist Vietnam

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