Vietnam War (jul 1, 1955 – feb 1, 1975)

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North- communist Ho Chi Minh
South- """"democratic"""" (not really but US
backs them because they are supportive)
Vietkong/VC: south Vietnamese communist revolutionaries
- France has been fighting north but back out, US stays b/c domino theory and containment
- Eisenhower: US "advisors" in southern Vietnam for ages
- JFK sent "support": Hamlet program= US creates feudalistic-esque towns in south vietnam
- Lyndon Johnson "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution"
- Allowed military engagement
- Step by step pressuring
- War never officially declared
- Terrible war:
- napalm, agent orange, search and destroy
- Tet Offensive
- My Lai Massacre
- America upset:
- Peace march, anti Vietnam media
->> Great Society loses funding: inflation
- Credibility gap: pres. lied
- Nixon wanted to end conflict
- vietnamization: slowly take troops out but
continue aid
- End:
- N attack S on 1975, capital falls
- S viets left w/ Amer. help, those who didnt
went to reeducation camp or killed

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