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Title: Chapter 10: Vietnam


1
History Through Literature Unit 4
  • Chapter 10 Vietnam

2
French Indochina
  • Vietnam was a colony of the France
  • After Franc fell in WWII, the Japanese and Vichy
    France continued to rule it
  • US with the OSS (CIA) began helping Ho Chi Minh
    fight
  • After the war China invaded (occupied) North
    Vietnam until the French could take over.
  • Vietnamese preferred the French

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4
French Indochina War
  • Vietnamese decided that they wanted there own
    country.
  • Ho Chi Minh declared independence in 1946
  • Purges political parties
  • Gets Emperor Bao Dia to abdicate
  • 1946 1954
  • 1950 Ho Chi Minh gets communist support from
    USSR and China
  • French defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

5
Geneva Accords 1956
  • End of the French Indochina War.
  • Divided Vietnam on 17th Parallel
  • Unification to be decided in a country wide vote
  • French allowed (US pressure) for Ngo Dinh Diem to
    become non-communist dictator of South
  • US and Diem fear communists would win election
  • Vote never happened

6
Lu Duan
  • Ho Chi Minh looses power Lu Duan becomes Prime
    Minister
  • Ho Chi Minh becomes President (figurehead)
  • Lu Duan wants to go to war in South against Diem
    and US

7
Ngo Dinh Diem
  • US puppet leader of South Vietnam
  • Anti-communist
  • Harsh and unpopular
  • US turned a blind eye when a coup was carried out
    to remove him in 1963.
  • Military dictatorship took over

8
Vietminh and Vietcong
  • Vietminh political party of the North that
    wanted independence from the French.
  • Vietcong revolutionaries (communists) and
    guerilla fighters in Southern Vietnam.
  • Vietcong started attacking targets in South
    Vietnam

9
US Involvement
  • 1963 Diem killed
  • 1963 (few weeks later) Kennedy killed
  • 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President
    Johnson authority for military action
    (declaration of war)
  • 1965 US starts bombing North Vietnam
  • 1968 - Tet Offensive North Vietnam and Vietcong
    have a massive attack throughout Vietnam US won
    US public opinion low
  • 1968 Johnson pulls out of Presidential race and
    Nixon wins
  • 1969 Vietnimization Nixons plan to pull out
    and train the South to fight on
  • 1970 US invade Cambodia (Ho Chi Minh Trail)
    to little to late

10
Nixon and Protests and the End of the war
  • Kent State Massacre/Ohio State Guard
  • Not friend of the Peace movement
  • He did keep the nation from falling apart
  • Nixon escalates air war Hanoi most bombed city
  • 1972 US troops drop from 500,000 to 20,000
  • Nixon re-elected
  • US signs the Paris peace accords (Kissinger) and
    all US participation ends in 1973.
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