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Title: 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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