15-4 THE WAR IN VIETNAM

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15-4 THE WAR IN VIETNAM

• 1965-1975

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Vietnamese War- continuous warfare for 35
years 1945 Colony returned to France Ho Chi Minh-
communist or nationalist? US supports French
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• US fears based on Domino Theory
• 1954-French crushed at battle of Bein Dein Phu
• 1954 Geneva Conference calls for free elections

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• Vietnam split in two
• Communist North Vietnam is led by Ho Chi Minh
• Democratic South Vietnam
• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Vietcong communist rebels in the south

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• US intervention in Vietnam increases gradually
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• 1965 escalation
• 1969 Tet offensive
• Vietnamization
• 1968-1973 secret bombing of Cambodia and North
  Vietnam

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• End of War
• US withdrawal due to opposition at home
• 1975 Vietnam united as a communist nation
• Today one of the last communist regimes,
  currently encouraging western investment

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4. Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City
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