Koosh Review

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Koosh Review

• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Brinkmanship
• Popular Sovereignty

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Journal Entry

• Who should be exempt from a draft to go fight in
  Vietnam p935?
• Give reasons as to who and why

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Vietnam War

• US History

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Koosh Review

• Brown v Board II
• James Meredith
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Dejure Segregation
• 14th Amendment

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How did we get involved?

• 1950 we started helping ______
• They ruled too harshly
• Many Vietnamese looked for alternatives
• ______ formed the Vietminh- claimed ______
• 1950-Truman sends 15 million why?

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Playin Bones

• Eisenhower explained the _____
• Countries met to make the Geneva Accords
  results
• Ho Chi Minh in control of N capitol of _____
• Ngo Dinh Diem leader in S capitol of ______

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• Ngo Dinh Diem
• - US backed president of SV
• - corrupt and repressive
• - a devout Catholic
• - restricted Buddhist practices

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Election of 1956

• Elections canceled by Diem why?
• Vietcong S Vietnamese that supported _____
• Operated as a terrorist group
• Got supplies via ________

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Kennedy Johnson

• US JFK authorized ______ of Diem
• In final analysis, its their war but JFK was
  going to do what?
• After assassination of Diem Vietcong ____
• LBJ worried about being _____
• Tonkin Gulf ResolutionUSS Maddox CLAIMED it had
  been shot atso
• Asked and got what?
• Feb 1965-Operation Rolling Thunder
• Bombing and 50,000 ______

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Johnson

• 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
• But by end of 1965-180,000 sent
• ______ kept asking for more-67-500,000
• Why?

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Fighting Styles

• Vietcong
• Hit and run / ____ warfare
• Hide among citizens
• Used ____ as weapons
• Underground Tunnels
• Home Advantage

• Americans
• Superior ______
• Use Napalm
• Gasoline based bomb
• Agent Orange
• Caused ____ and ____
• Search and Destroy Missions-what were they?

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Other Tactics

• US Used Land Mines
• 3.5 Million remain in Vietnam
• 160 Casualties per/month
• 1997 Mine Ban Treaty
• Signed by 139 countries
• What did the US do?
• But we have spent ____

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Sinking Morale

• Public Opinion Going Down why?
• Govt in the South
• We thought what about the war?
• Johnson unhappy because what failed?
• Had to raise taxes
• Everything televised
• Living Room War why?
• LBJ-There was a light
• At the end of the tunnel
• Created the _____ Gap
• Meaning?

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Problems Continued

• Soldiers moral down as well
• Two different ways of coping
• Nation becomes divided
• Protest
• Lies, lies, more lies

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Nation Divided

• Not everyone wanted to go to war
• People found ways out of the draft how?
• AAs served more in ______ again
• Women served in _____ roles

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Students what are they doing?

• The New Left (kinda like)
• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Free Speech Movement (FSM)
• Protest on __________ wanted a fundamental
  change

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How do we Protest?

• 20,000 on DC in April 65
• 30,000 on DC in November 65
• Johnson says you have to have _____ to stay out
  of the war
• Results many went to _____ like _______
• Many torn between protest and being ______
• 75,000 on DC in 67 what happened?

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Johnson cant win

• Two types of people
• Doves wanted us to ______
• Hawks wanted us to ______
• 70 of US thought Protesters were acts of
  disloyalty
• America-love it or leave it Support our men in
  Vietnam

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Happy New Tet!

• What was the Tet Offensive?
• Jan 30th, 196832,000 _____ killed only 3,000
  ARVN but view of public?
• Prior to Tet 28 Doves, 56 ____
• After Tet 40 for both sides
• Cronkite more certain than ever that the
  bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a
  stalemate.
• Everything changednews people
• Feb 196860 _____ Johnson

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1968 What a bad year!

• March 31, 1968 Johnson said _____ and I will not
  seek and will not accept the nomination of my
  party for another term as your president
• April 4th, 1968MLK ____
• June 4th, 1968RFK ____
• Columbia Univeristy

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1968 ContinuedWho is going to be President

• 68 Dem Convention Btw Humphrey and McCarthy
  what were their jobs?
• Convention in Chicago who came?
• As long as I am mayor there will be law and
  order

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What about the Election

• Democrats caught on camera fighting so
• Rep. _____ just lost California Gov. election
• Promised to _______
• On to the actual election
• Nixon v. Humphrey and ______
• Who wins? What helps

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Tricky Dick as President

• We have to get rid of the nightmares we
  inherited What does that mean?
• Nixon works with ______
• Named policy Vietnamization
• 1969-1971 withdrawal of 175,000
• While doing this he bombed ______

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More Problems

• Nixon counted on support from _______
• My Lai Incident
• Kill anything that breathed
• Troops killed ____ innocent women and children
• Nixon announced invasion of Cambodia
• What happened at Kent State / Jackson State
• As if it couldnt get any worse - _____ published
• What was included in them?

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This is the war that never ends it goes on and
on my friends

• March 72 The Communist have never been bombed
  like that are going to be bombed this time
  Nixon
• Kissinger secretly meeting says peace is ___
• But We bomb largest cities 100,000 times
• After that we finally sign a peace treaty yea!!
• Terms of the Treaty
• We would respond if they violated with full force
  
• 2 Years later N Vietnam invades and we do??

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Legacy of War

• Casualties in the War
• 58,000 Americans Died
• 303,000 wounded
• 2 mil. Vietnamese
• Our ego

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Veterans Back Home

• Welcome Home Celebration!
• Like what?
• Physiological Problems
• PTSD, Drugs, Apathy, Suicide

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• Legacy of the Vietnam War
• Hawks we could have won (more military might)
• blamed doves and peace movement for loss
• Doves we couldnt win
• unrestricted war China and Russia get
  involved
• War Powers Act
• - Limited the Presidents power to declare war
• Americans become distrustful and cynical towards
• the government
• South East Asia in chaos

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• South East Asia Post Vietnam War
• 400,000 South Vietnamese imprisoned by the North
• 1.5 million Vietnamese flee the country
• 50,000 die on the sea
• Vietnam is now a popular tourist destination
• - watch out for those 3.5 million land mines!

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Draft

• American opinion

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Fighting Style

• Booby traps, land mines, jungle, gorilla
• Westmoreland introduced body count-why?
• Tried to win the hearts and minds of peoplebut
  some things didnt help like-
• Soldiers moral went way downturned to drugs and
  _____

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Americans Views

• Johnson unhappy b/c GS going down
• Living Room Warbody bags
• Creditability Gapcaused by what?
• Effect on the Draft?
• Protest movementsNew Left
• SDS, FSM
• March on Washingtoneffect of music
• Doves vs. Hawkswhat is that?

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1968 Cont

• Chicago Dem Party conventionthis time the
  convention was really exciting
• Made the Dems look silly--___ won strange election

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Public Opinion cont

• Kissinger and Nixonpolicy of Vietnamization
• March 16, 1968My Lai what happened?
• 1.5 million ____ on strikewhy?
• Kent State Massacre
• Release of Pentagon Papers
• Cease fire signedbut eventually ____ falls

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Totals of the War

• 58,000 Americans died
• 303,000 Americans wounded
• 2 million Vietnamese
• Troops mental problems why?
• Eventuallythe Wall created

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Koosh Review

• Napalm
• Credibility Gap
• Great Society
• New Deal
• United Nations

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Koosh Review

• Dove
• Hawk
• New Left
• Living Room War
• Ways to avoid the draft

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Journal

• If you were forced to go to war what do you think
  the hardest part of coming back would be? What
  adjustments would you need to make in your life?
  Do you think it would be easy or difficult?

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Koosh Review

• Vietmanization
• Kissenger
• 1968 Election
• Tet Offensive
• Underground Railroad

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Journal Entry

• How would you feel if all student privileges at
  school (best parking, leaving early for lunch,
  exam exemption, picking classes) were awarded
  based on how much money your family has? How
  should those be awarded?