Please sit quietly' Take out your notebook, pen, and textbook' Prepare to take notes'

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To Do Now

• Please sit quietly. Take out your notebook, pen,
  and textbook. Prepare to take notes.
• When we complete all notes on Vietnam, we will
  begin watching We Were Soldiers. You will
  receive a ditto and fill in answers.
• Alternate Assignment (Students absent 2 or who
  refuse to watch the movie) Read Chapter, 32
  Section 3 and 5. Copy every bold subheading, and
  provide 3 important facts from each section (20
  points if completed right)
• The ditto and the alternate assignment will be
  checked, and graded.

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Welcome
to
United States History II
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The Path to
War in Vietnam
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French Colonization(Dont copy)

• French Indochina Present day Laos, Cambodia, and
  Vietnam
• French colonized Indochina in 1858 under Napoleon
  III
• Lost in 1940 after defeat to Axis
  Powers
• Controlled by Japan until
  defeat in 1945

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French Indochina
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First Indochina War(1946-1954)

• Ho Chi Minh- after WW2, becomes hero of struggle
  against Japan
• Is a Communist
• Rises to power in Vietnam
• French reclaim colonies
• Humiliating defeat to Axis
  inspires revolts

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First Indochina War(1946-1954)

• 1950- U.S. begins financing French war effort
• 1954- U.S. paying 80 of French
  war bill

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Dien bien phu

• 1954- French Army is encircled and destroyed by
  Viet Minh (league for independence of Vietnam)
• France withdraws all forces
• World powers decide to divide Vietnam into two
  parts
• North-Communist under
  Ho Chi Minh
• South-Capitalist under
  Ngo Dinh Diem
  

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Guerilla War

• -(Dont Copy) Guerrilla tactics are based on
  intelligence, ambush, deception, sabotage, and
  espionage, and their ultimate objective is
  usually to destabilize an authority through long,
  low-intensity confrontation. It can be quite
  successful against an unpopular foreign regime a
  guerrilla army may increase the cost of
  maintaining an occupation or a colonial presence
  above what the foreign power may wish to bear
• Guerilla tactics used by Viet Cong or
  Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam.
• Vietcong supplied by NVA (North Vietnamese Army),
  and communist sympathizers in South

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U.S. Involvement before 1965

• North wanted to unify the country into one
  communist state
• South refused to hold unification elections, so
  North attacked
• U.S. sent in military advisors to teach South
  Vietnamese to fight, and defend
  their government

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Growing Involvement

• U.S. considered fight between North and South as
  part of the Cold War (fight against Communism)
• The North considers it their Civil War, and
  wants to reunite their country divided by the
  west.
• Diem (Leader of South) is considered a dictator
  and puppet of the U.S.
• Communists create National Liberation Front (NLF)
  to liberate Vietnam from Diem

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U.S. Combat Troops in Vienam
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• (1964) Two destroyers off coast of North Vietnam
  are attacked
• In reality, no one was injured, and a bad
  lighning storm led to misjudgment
• Destroyers were protecting South Vietnamese
  gunboats making raids on North
• President Johnson asks congress for authority to
  send large military force to repel agression
  and liberate Vietnam

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Checking for Understanding

• QWho was the leader of Cuba overthrown by
  Castro?
• Q What was the common name of the CIA backed
  invasion to remove Castros communist government?
• Q How does the United States find out about the
  missile build up on the island of Cuba?
• Q How does the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

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Extension

• Please have any make up or extra credit work in
  by tomorrow. If I dont have a grade for work, it
  goes down as a zero
• Remember to keep all notes, I will not allow
  photocopies on future notebook quizzes
• Full grades will be computed by tomorrow after
  school at the latest. See me later if you have
  further questions.